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[urbpan]

After last night's allergy attack (still wheezing!) I don't have the energy to write anything profound or meaningful. Maybe you'd like to look at some pictures?




These are from my day at work, Friday. Above is our Turkey Vulture, Orville. He spends the warm months on exhibit, and then is taken off exhibit when it starts to snow. It started to snow on Friday.



The Ducks don't mind a little snow. (Foreground: Donna Duck; Background: Mr. Mallard)


This is the vernal pool in the old deer enclosure, as it was snowing just a little.


A couple hours later, and this is the pond in the "new" deer enclosure (they've been in there for 6 years or so, and still it's the "new" deer enclosure). The enclosure is 2 acres, and the deer have their choice of whether they are visible or not.



The main road through the sanctuary.



Rudy is surprisingly intolerant of the cold. He will lay on his feet to keep them warm if it's below freezing. On this day he let himself back into his night enclosure (indoors) on his own.



She didn't quite know what to make of the snow. This is a one year old Red-tailed hawk that we are taming down for educational program use. She is blind in her right eye (and therefore unreleaseable).



She did such a good job, she gets a treat!

Comments

[crunchywater.livejournal.com]

God i wish that i had your job so much. Do you work with only birds or all kinds of animals? I loved the first picture, what a cutie!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

The birds are pretty much the stars, but I take care of mammals and reptiles too.

Orville is a cute old gent.
But he has taken a great disliking toward me, and will stalk me if I'm around, and try to feast on my flesh.

[anais2.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I would risk a buzzard sitting in my car.....ewwwww...

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I think my boss' logic was that he was less stressed being moved without a carrier (we use regular old dog and cat style carriers). When he is stressed, he vomits (it's a Turkey Vulture thing).

He didn't vomit, but he did tear a hole in the upholstery.

[anais2.livejournal.com]

Only slightly less trouble than children, LOL.

"But he has taken a great disliking toward me, and will stalk me if I'm around, and try to feast on my flesh." Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that indicate a LIKING for you, rather than a disliking?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

"like" as in the sentence

I like pork chops!

[anais2.livejournal.com]

Exactly>

[belen1974.livejournal.com]

thanks for taking and posting these pics! they are awesome. i especially liked the duck ones. they are my new desktop pattern. sorry maggie. so um how close did you get to the ducks to snap that photo? or did you use the zoom features on your camera?

please take more and write about your animals.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I was very close to the ducks. I approached their enclosure and the female came running over. I put the camera way down at duck level, the lens between the wires of the cage. (Donna will follow people, especially if she thinks they're going to feed her. Mr. Mallard follows Donna.)

[rwblackbird.livejournal.com]

at the pond in my school, when the water freezes, the ducks and geese get frozen in it.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

That's crazy! Do they just quack there, with their feet stuck in the ice?

[rwblackbird.livejournal.com]

Well, they freeze, they sit, they wait.

No one is bold enough to crawl out onto the thin ice to save them. Although sometimes students throw large rocks in an attempt to break the ice near the goose or duck making it easier for them to free themselves, and the afternoon sun will weaken the ice allowing them to escape also.

Those who stay overnight, I assume, get gobbled up by the wolves.

I see it as Natures way of getting rid of the fowl that aren’t bright enough to travel south, or at least into the city.