Apologize for this post being a day late. As stated in day 41 many of my upcoming posts may be late due to working on protocols with the other interns and staff. Once these protocols are finished we will be able to take care of the animal written about. For example I am covering Long-legged waders so once the protocol is finished we will be able to take care of Great Blue Heron, Cattle Egret, Back crowned Night Heron, American Bittern, Least Bittern, and other heron/egret species in Wisconsin. Next up is short-legged and other seabirds (loon, cormorant, grebes). So far I have the general information for the long-legged waders finished (or at least what appears to be finished) but am still in need of species specific information. Thankfully there are not many species of long-legged waders to cover so once I am able to find all the remaining information I need the rest should hopefully be breeze. Goal was to finished them yesterday (on day 42) but my goal is to now finish them by tonight (day 43).
Moving on.
Today was an education day so of course it started with the same routine as every morning. You guys can guess what that is by now but for those who still aren't sure: vacuuming, sweeping, mopping. After this I was asked to virkon or disinfect all the surfaces in the education room where the animals and kids corner are. I attacked practically every surface I could which required moving study skins by taking them off the shelves and putting them by. Also attacked the kids corner area. Rearranged some study skins so people could see all of them better while also giving a size difference amongst the skins if they were mammal. Moved around some brochures and stuff in one section of the room so these were more organized as well. I managed to spice up the corner with the brochures too by moving a Short-eared owl study skin near it all! If I saw the owl I would instantly want to walk over to look at the brochures! Maybe that's just me though.
Of course I did some gift shop work. Added some stuff from the gift shop and recalculated some inventory information. Overall both of us education interns were trying to work on protocols but once we opened we were slammed with phone calls and tours. Every half hour we were giving a tour with phone calls in between. It rained some but this never stops people. In fact we are busier on rainy days then sunny ones! Not many people realize our outdoor portion of the tour I suppose. It's carefully hidden from the public so they do not disturb the birds of prey when no one is around.
When we finally did close shop the two of us began to work on protocols again. Others were already working on them or joined in after wards. Overall we ended up having a "protocol party" until some of the interns started to go to bed one by one. Once one left there was basically a chain reaction up until about 12am. I was the last intern to go to sleep but the last staff member was not far behind. He left around 12:30am and that's all I remember before waking up the next day. One of those kind of sleeps, was OUT! Slept decently well too.
No pictures for the day. Sorry!
The good news though is since this is day 42 I have now been here 6 weeks! Survived so far lets hope it continues this way haha. 8 more weeks! Cannot believe time has flown by this fast and how it continues to fly by even faster!!!
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