Nonaccessioned animals

[urbpan]

One of the first pieces of jargon I picked up at the zoo was "nonaccessioned animal." This means any animal in the zoo that isn't part of the database (also "noncollection animal"). Nonacessioned animals mostly consist of stray cats, wild animals, and various pests. This red-tailed hawk (I'm pretty sure) is the same one I've photographed several times since November. The zookeepers in the area that it hunts have named it Sarah Ferestien (after a zookeeper, and our hay supplier). Sarah is eating a plump Norway rat.


I was investigating a pest issue behind a greenhouse when this cottontail and I startled each other.

Comments

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

Sarah F. is beautiful! and bunny is sweet. Jim doesn't live with you? Is it a shared custody thing?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

No Jim belongs to our good friend and dog-sitter, Alex. We watch him when she goes away.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

lol shared custody. we're his godparents (or dogparents).

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Incredible pictures! How did you get the rabbit to stand still long enough to bring the camera around?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
Well I've almost always got a camera on me, and our rabbits (the wild ones at the zoo, that are used to people being around) don't usually bolt away--they'll dart a short distance and watch for a while.

[deathling.livejournal.com]

Sarah is soo faaaatt.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

She's fluffing herself up to look big, because I'm coming so close again! (She does get plenty to eat, though!)