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Nice Day Work Pics Part one.
Your regularly scheduled Monday Urbpan Picspam may be worse than normal today. Our internet went out on Friday, and has been spotty all weekend. We're getting new (legit) service installed today, and that makes me happy. In the meanwhile, wifi is drifting through the wall (yay, living on a city block!) for a while at least, so I can start with the pics.
Saturday was sunny, and the temperature was way way up--in the 50's! The metrowest stroller brigade was out in full force, and families with kids of all ages and even some adults without children were milling about the place. Here one of our Teachers, Pete, is doing a snake demo.
In the spring, Drumlin is like a puddle-themed amusement park. Kids love puddles. I do, too.
I was digging streams to drain the big puddle in front of one of my exhibits. Different colored soils mix and flow, and are hypnotizing. It was all I could do to keep from making 5 minute videos of dirty puddles draining.
When designing the perches and furniture for the new Bird Hill exhibits, we had tall uprights installed. Then we realized that in some of the cages, there would be birds with wing amputations who would need low perches, and perches running from the ground up to higher perches, and some of the uprights would have to be left without perches attached. On Saturday, two of these wing-amputated birds simultaneously found their ways up to the top of the uprights. They love to be up high, and where there's a will there's a way. Broad-winged hawk on the left, Red-tailed hawk on the right.
I decided it was time to replace the water bowls in the exhibit (we remove them during the coldest months and inject their mice with water). This one red-tail decided to get a drink and take a bath.
Even though it was nice out, I had to come inside to perform the grim duty of culling the mice. This youngster has a blunt snout and eyes too far apart. I have no idea why.
Cute, though.
Next: balanced rocks
Saturday was sunny, and the temperature was way way up--in the 50's! The metrowest stroller brigade was out in full force, and families with kids of all ages and even some adults without children were milling about the place. Here one of our Teachers, Pete, is doing a snake demo.
In the spring, Drumlin is like a puddle-themed amusement park. Kids love puddles. I do, too.
I was digging streams to drain the big puddle in front of one of my exhibits. Different colored soils mix and flow, and are hypnotizing. It was all I could do to keep from making 5 minute videos of dirty puddles draining.
When designing the perches and furniture for the new Bird Hill exhibits, we had tall uprights installed. Then we realized that in some of the cages, there would be birds with wing amputations who would need low perches, and perches running from the ground up to higher perches, and some of the uprights would have to be left without perches attached. On Saturday, two of these wing-amputated birds simultaneously found their ways up to the top of the uprights. They love to be up high, and where there's a will there's a way. Broad-winged hawk on the left, Red-tailed hawk on the right.
I decided it was time to replace the water bowls in the exhibit (we remove them during the coldest months and inject their mice with water). This one red-tail decided to get a drink and take a bath.
Even though it was nice out, I had to come inside to perform the grim duty of culling the mice. This youngster has a blunt snout and eyes too far apart. I have no idea why.
Cute, though.
Next: balanced rocks
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But yes, I do some selective breeding: I try to keep a mixture of different colors (to make educational programs with the mice more interesting) and I kill any mice that bite humans or are overly aggressive to their cagemates. This week I found a black mouse with a white blaze on its head. I saved him and put him into a breeding tank, to see if we can have patterned mice!
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Those puddles are mesmerizing...wow...;)
Aw pretty birdies...