Today has been better although I am honestly very worn out and tired. I decided to take phone tonight and someone called around 10pm, 11pm, 12am, and a few times through out the morning, then around 7am. I honestly missed the phone a few times because of how tired/passed out I was but the other times I answered or at least made an attempt too. Sometimes it rang twice then when I tried to answer all I got was dial tone. Not sure what the story was there but any messages we had were covered this morning and I am sure by now call backs have been made or the issues were taken care of. My frustration is building at the thought of this and everything else going on and truthfully I am not just tired in general but growing tired of others things as well. I love it here, do not get me wrong, but some things are really irritating me. The know it all attitude being the biggest but otherwise I will keep my comments to myself rather then blurt them all over social media.
After preparing food trays for squirrels this morning and feeding them while the other two rehab interns took care of mice feeding/watering (one training a new on as well). After wards we figured out raccoon food and such for our 11 raccoon babies and then eventually began to weight and feed all of them (once calculations were figured out regarding how much food they receive). I did dishes while the other two interns fixed the raccoon isolation room cages up, cleaned their cages by putting in new blankets, and transferring some raccons from the incubator to a cage. Once everything was fixed up and looking nice we filled out charts, solved some calculation errors that occurred, and prepared for the next feeding time. Due to the previous late feeding we only had an hour between feedings but they still took the formula and such easily.
Once second feedings were done and charts were filled, another intern and I then moved out to the education side while our other intern did dishes this time. We were supposed to watch phones while a tour was going on. We shortly took an hour lunch afterwards though.
From there we came back and had a short meeting about how to sell tickets for a fishing tournament coming up in June (or July...) and then we had cherry pie thanks to one of our volunteers that made it for us. After pie the rahabbers returned to the back and decided to work on a light switch. Two rehab interns did while I went with an education intern to clean Sierra and Race's cage (Red-tailed Hawks). We managed to clean up most of it before Race began to pant due to being stressed out so we exited, chatted with Eddie the Bald Eagle for a bit, and headed back inside to dispose of the droppings/water from the cages. I believe I started to restock then but did not get very far. Eventually 4pm feeding came around so an intern and I fed the squirrels, raccoon outside, and the baby raccoons inside with another intern (whom did dishes).
When feeding was out of the way I went on a coffee run for the rehab side and upon returning, talked to an education staff member with another intern about tomorrow's event. We will be giving an inside tour, outside tour, and program to three groups that will rotate through the sections. After this was figured out I was then able to handle Rory the broad-winged hawk. More or less worked on bird handling skills more with him by having him step up, move around with my hand, eventually step down, look for signs of him flying off to a nearby perch, and discussed what to look out for with birds when handling them. So far Rory may be one of my favorites besides Errol the Great Horned Owl. Eventually I let him perch back, exited the area, and the staff member and us two interns went back to the rehab side of things.
I recall finishing up some dishes that needed washed but surprisingly everything else was covered (sweeping, moping, etc) by a different intern. I had virkoned all surfaces in the kitchen prior and the other two cleaned out the Raccoon Isolation Room (RISO) so everything was tidy and good to go for tomorrow. This marked the end of the day until we all went upstairs and got to know a new intern more. We sat around honestly, debated a movie, but did not really do much besides hang out in the living room until 8pm feeding came around (we had finished at 7pm anyway).
This feeding went pretty fast (given there was 6 of us in a tiny room) and once I finished up with dishes we returned upstairs. The incubator for our new patient raccoon that arrived tonight needs to be checked at 10pm but once this is taken care of the day is technically 100% done and I am honestly thinking bed.....especially since I did not get much sleep last night. Tomorrow I am back on education, Thursday I am off (which means laundry/groceries), and then back on education. June is still up in the air but we will see how it goes.
Biggest news for the day; two new interns arrived which means all the summer interns are officially here!! Unless they decide to hire more due to the rehab staff acquiring their advanced license. This means a lot more animals, a lot more work, and more hands required. Sounds like a bit much but I am truly excited for this :)!
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