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Okay youngsters (are there any young people left on LiveJournal?) "hook up" means getting a behind-the-scenes tour at a zoo, clean out your mind.

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Right away I got to see my old friend Orville, a turkey vulture who used to try to rip strips of flesh off of me despite me not being dead yet. He did not do that this day, maybe he's mellowing with age (he's got to be in his 50s now) maybe he's relaxed now that he has a partner. That white duck is one of these baby ducks! all grown up.

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Current Music: Sara Watkins - The Ward Accord

The baby ducks are huge! The Canada goose protects them fiercely.

The cottontail is on exhibit! This picture is to prove that you can sometimes see him--like right when we open or close, he spends the rest of the time hiding in his tunnel.

New rabbit enclosure. ( Read more... )

Wet paint.

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Yes, yet more work on the Drumlin Underground fencing.

Disgusting substance of the day: Caterpillar frass. The deer water was full of it today. The waterer is under an apple tree, and there are millions of inchworms and other caterpillars feasting this time of year.

On this day in 365 urban species: English Garden Snail. I haven't seen any of these yet this year, but it's finally warm enough, and rain is predicted for Sunday, so I bet we see them this weekend. This species was probably introduced accidentally, as opposed to the European snails in San Francisco, which were deliberately introduced as livestock. Any of you readers eat snails? Personally, mollusks are not on my menu, but I like the idea of easily raised invertebrate food.

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More fence work at the Drumlin Underground.

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After many years, one of the exhibits I work with (The Drumlin Underground, formerly "The Burrows" or Burrowing Animal Building) is getting a bit of a facelift. I shot a few videos of our maintenance supervisor moving big pieces of it away with the Bobcat (a little tractor). I'm posting this mainly for myself, and others who may remember the exhibit, but it might be interesting to people who like watching construction vehicles.

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More fence work on the cages.

Disgusting substance of the day: After I filled the car up with gas this morning, I went to drink my coffee and found that my hand smelled of really artificial flower scented perfume. The person who used the gas pump before me must have been drenched in the stuff. It was nasty--I actually tried to rinse it off my hand with coffee.

On this day in 365 urban species: Gray catbird.

Out with the old fencing (on the right) in with the new (on the left).

Disgusting substance of the day: Mosquito larva infested water that I dropped my phone into.

The skunk enclosure on the Drumlin Underground exhibit. I put my coworker's old xmas tree (a live Colorado spruce) in there today.

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The entrance to the Drumlin Underground exhibit (or DUG).

The wood frog (Rana sylvatica) is the most northern occurring amphibian in North America. It requires vernal pools (bodies of water that do not have water in them year-round, and therefore have fewer predators, particularly fish) to breed. We have a man-made vernal pool on our work property, and this week a nocturnal migration of froglings happened. There must have been hundreds of tiny frogs, leaving the water for a mostly terrestrial life, only to return to breed again. The subterranean exhibit building I work with (The "Drumlin Underground") trapped about 30 wood froglings. We were able to rescue and release most of them.

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