Today I was back on education, which is what I will be on tomorrow as well. Started off the day like every other education day - vacuuming, sweeping, and mopping. I did half the vacuuming and all the mopping while the other education intern did the other half and swept. While mopping I was doing miscellaneous other things as well. Such as letting out Hortense into her outdoor pen before letting her back in due to rain and talking to people who were interested in purchasing squirrel shirts.
Today I sold 5 Squirrel shirts to my friends/family. Thank you so much for supporting Northwoods Wildlife Center!!! They are $15 each so the center made $75 today from Squirrel shirts alone. We received more money from kind donors and other gift shop sales but the chunk along is awesome!! Just like you guys!
We have more shirts if anyone is interested. Visit my facebook page, check out the squirrel shirt picture, and then look at the comments below for the colors per size and such, and state what you want in the comments! Or message me, whatever works best for you.
Aside from selling squirrel shirts and messing around with the gift shop I gave at least 3 tours today to the public. I am definitely enjoying tours more because I can give them with a confident and clear voice. Feeling like an expert-in-training for sure! Talking to the public has become 100x easier. Aside from this helped answer some phone calls and updated the patient database as always. Kind of feel like I am the only one that ever does honestly....
Tempted to try updating the phone log database tomorrow, aside from the patient database again. Not sure what else to do with the gift shop honestly. Besides all this the assistant education director and a volunteer helped me with my resume by providing me tips on how to improve it. For the most part it seemed decent but of course there's always room for improvement so I hope to create a fresh new resume rather soon. First things first though, have a good list of protocols to help the rehabilitators work on.
Protocols are guidelines on how to raise animals of all sorts from the moment they arrive in the rehabilitation center to when they can be released. They include food, housing, dosage information, and more. Overall imagine a document jam packed with information on how to rehabilitate a species. I am personally working on long-legged waders (heron, egret, bitterns), short-legged waders (rail, plover, snipe, sandpiper, coot), and Other Waterbirds (loon, grebe, cormorant). Yes it sounds like a lot but ever since that Great Blue Heron research paper for Capstone I feel like nothing is impossible with hard work and dedication. Thank you Hocking College (Dave Swanson and Lynn Holtzman) for teaching me so well when it comes to important documentation when it comes to wildlife. Mainly what it takes to meet the requirements for these documents (a lot of research, a lot of time, and a lot of dedication). Once these protocols are finished, reviewed, and submitted to the Wisconsin Division of Natural Resouces (DNR) and they approve, we can start rehabbing said species! Other interns here are helping with the other species.
Reason why this post is so late is because of working on said protocols. Long-legged waders are started but so much work and research ahead! Except late blog posts because I will be trying to finish these protocols asap. Sooner the better because then that means we can take the species in!!! Who wouldn't want to rehabilitate herons and sandpipers?! I have a goal to eliminate these protocols asap and potentially steal from the others. Sounds bad but that's how much I want to get these done! Sorry guys, you all know I mean well.
Deadline for my protocols is July 7th so I have some time but not really. Hopefully once I figure out the jist of the provided template 100% then I can start hard core cranking out everything. Going to try working with rehabbers to see what exactly they want too. The moment I know what to do is when I can start typing like a mad man (and some of us know I am a super fast typer + grammer nazi).
Overall, I am honored to have been asked to help with protocols. Everyone eventually was but to help out an organization with something this important is something not everyone gets the chance to do every day. Hopefully through learning I can possibly consider becoming a rehabilitator myself....but we shall see where the road leads :)
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