Day 92 - Education

One of the last education days, one more to come, and of course it started off with sweeping and general cleaning. I swept, helped take of bathrooms, cleaned the windows, filled soap in the bathrooms, then went in back to help out rehab. I helped feed squirrels with the squirrel intern then headed back up front to tell the other education intern that I was heading outside to help clean Fritz and DC's enclosure. It needed some work so of course, with trash bag and soap bucket in hand, I picked up any feathers, feces, and food remains then cleaned off any perches. Of course I had to take a few pictures of the two goof balls.

DC (top) and Fritz (bottom) are both Eastern Screech Owls. They are not siblings. Fritz arrived first and has nerve damage which causes him to struggle when flying. DC arrived after with an eye injury that deemed her unreleasable as well since she now lacks the depth perception necessary for hunting. Fritz cannot fly so he is unreleasable as well since flying is a birds most important ability.

After cleaning I head inside and prepared to give my first tour; which was only a few minutes after washing my hands and heading back up front. Once my first tour, and the first of the day, was finished then I recall mainly sitting, answering phones, helping rehab, or waiting to give more tours later. Not much happened during the day and since it's been a few days I honestly cannot remember everything we did 100%. This is why I should have worked on this more after work but was fairly tired I believe.

I ended up cleaning out Sierra and Race's enclosure of all the feathers and some feces. They are both Red-tailed Hawks; you have seen a picture of me with Sierra in the past. I need to take more pictures of everyone before I leave for sure.

In the meantime I do have some.

Walking Sticks

I opened my eyes while Kelcie was feeding me!!!!

It was the most adorable thing to watch this Gray Squirrel open her eyes after I finished feeding her. It sounds like I was trying to imprint this squirrel but she does not truly show signs of imprinting and feeding was actually over with when she did so I was able to put her back into her baby box. She was later moved into a cage so she can climb and hide in a den box. She climbs all over the place now, hides in her den box, and is starting to eat solids as well! Growing up FAST!

Other stuff I did was work on the gift shop a bit more but overall it was mainly tours, few phone calls, cleaning enclosures (biggest), or helped rehab feed / prepare food for patients. I think I mopped for rehab too but cannot 100% remember.