Rain, Cold, Blah!

This week has been one of constant rain and muck, filth, and cold. As much as I welcome the cooler weather, I do not care for rain and cold together! I wished all week that the rain would just transform into snow!

Anyhow, I was on a good variety of things this week! Raccoons is so different now that we only have three raccoons. Before there was close to eighty and it was super stressful! Now I can actually focus a lot more on their enrichment, which is my favourite part of looking after them anyway!

I stuffed some straw in a paper bag for my raccoons with peanuts inside and they loved it!

I was also on turtles this week. The weather is getting too cold now to release turtles, so the ones we have right now will be with us all winter. I had always observed the turtle bandages being changed, but had never actually done one on my own till now! (I felt pretty proud!)I just realized this week how much I've learned since I started here! Half the things I do now feel so second nature.

This turtle I bandaged had been got by a hawk.

I was also on birds this week. I like birds, but tubing the swans always freaks me out. I remember how the last intern who blogged had accidentally killed a swam tubing it the wrong way, so now I am always nervous that I will be cursed with the same fate!

I think the raptors might be my favourite section of the birds. They are usually so high up in the wild I never see them up close like I do here! 

 

We got another owl!

Anyways, we had a storm the other day and our neighbours tree came tumbling down. They were very generous and let us use the branches. I just love the fall colours on the maples! They look nice in the bird cages!

 It's Sunday and Sue is finally back! I actually really missed her! Unlike the other interns, this is the longest I've been away from home and its been nice having Sue as a mother figure.