Day 50 - Education

Forgot to mention that yesterday marked my seventh week here at NWC. I was very tired last night which is why not much was said and it was straight to the point without much thought too it. That's yesterday though, on to today. Education!

Which means I got to hang out with Woody the Wood Turtle for a little bit!

Due to there being only one rehabilitation intern in back, much like how I was solo in back yesterday, I tried to help out a bit more when I could plus needed to work on protocols. This gave me the chance to help feed the southern flying squirrels and a gray squirrel today. I thought the southern flying squirrel was my favorite but honestly I love the red squirrels more. The flyer decided to thrown a pine cone at me today when I was cleaning out its cage plus giving it more solids and water! I'm telling ya, you know a squirrel is ready to return to the wild when it no longer has any appreciation for anything you do for it haha. They do the funniest things.

Southern Flying Squirrel (was not escaping)

I did give some tours (maybe 2 or 3) and did answer some phone calls (honestly very few) but on the bright side I did mop....though forgot to dust and clean windows. I mainly worked on protocols all day except for helping rehab side feed. Due to this work the staff member that I have been helping out and I managed to get quite a bit done and have a very good start. We hoped to finish songbird protocols today but only briefly touched four out of at least 10+ families. Sounds like it's not much but it's quite a bit when you have 2-5+ species per family and have to research all the information to go with them. Luckily I remembered a very awesome website FULL of bird information that my ornithology professor (Bob Placier or Bob Scott!) gave me when I was working on my capstone Great Blue Heron project. I absolutely adore the Birds of North America website. Thank you Cornell and the American Ornithologists Union for making the website possible! So much information about every bird plus so many sources as well. It's like the greatest bird encyclopedia ever.

Not much else today besides feeding, protocols, and tours. Attempted to do more cleaning for the rehab side but every time I attempted to help something popped up so I feel bad in that department but at least stuff was taken care of. Did feed mice for rehab and did make more mice food + squirrel trays at 8am and 4pm feedings so that helped some. We did get in some new baby gray squirrels that need fed every 3 hours - including 10:30pm and 3am! It will be interesting to see who is willing to get up or not! Here's some pictures of the nuggets.