rays of ashen light
Apr. 12th, 2016 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaEither Amy or Alianna almost ran over a squirrel in the wildlife center's driveway and I jokingly said that we just released it back into the wild. I say "either Amy or Alianna" because this actually happened on Friday and I just remembered the incident.
Thing is, a few of our animals have been eaten by raptors upon release. I imagine raptors hanging out near the soft release cages, where we put animals like opossums and squirrels and give them some food and shelter for long enough for them to find other sources of food and shelter.
They're like the spiders on the people movers at Logan, who learned that they can let their webs run into the flies.
A mallard laid an egg and I don't think it's viable anymore, after all, it's been sitting on a shelf since she laid it. I don't know what else we could do with it, maybe sneak it into another mallard's nest. Maybe if the x-ray machine was working, we could, I don't know, x-ray the egg to see if there's anything developing inside it.
No hawk weighs a gram, Jacob says.
We know he's (a parakeet) eating because he regurges it on us, says Tiffany.
He's regurgitating because he most likely has a crop infection.
Big owls can hunt with missing eyes. Smaller owls might need binocular vision to hunt moths and such, or they might not; there hasn't been much research on this. No matter what, the screech owl with a missing eye is going to live out the rest of his life in captivity.
X-ray machine wasn't working, which is most unfortunate because an African spurred tortoise ate a needle and it's stuck in his cheek. I also couldn't clean upstairs because I couldn't fill the mop bucket.
We're finally going to get temperatures that stay above freezing for a while, so the salamanders are getting released. We released the flicker and he was like "eff you all" and flew away.
The main difference between flickers and woodpeckers is that flickers hunt grubs and ants on the ground, while woodpeckers find their food inside of trees.
Priya didn't want to show the tour group our flying squirrel, for fear that he'd escape.
A kid asked if Spyro could breathe fire.
"I shouldn't chip paint off of the highway and eat it is what you're saying," says Tiffany. Not unless you want to end up like the people who maintain the sjwlist.
Squirrels should weigh 200+ grams, be able to crack nuts and acorns, and be able to climb. We're giving them some peanuts to try. I'm pretty sure the largest squirrels we have weigh around 150 grams.
burning question: Ian R. MacLeod asks: Why do the names of people who send spam e-mails all sound as if they've come from a 1920s romantic novel?
Thing is, a few of our animals have been eaten by raptors upon release. I imagine raptors hanging out near the soft release cages, where we put animals like opossums and squirrels and give them some food and shelter for long enough for them to find other sources of food and shelter.
They're like the spiders on the people movers at Logan, who learned that they can let their webs run into the flies.
A mallard laid an egg and I don't think it's viable anymore, after all, it's been sitting on a shelf since she laid it. I don't know what else we could do with it, maybe sneak it into another mallard's nest. Maybe if the x-ray machine was working, we could, I don't know, x-ray the egg to see if there's anything developing inside it.
No hawk weighs a gram, Jacob says.
We know he's (a parakeet) eating because he regurges it on us, says Tiffany.
He's regurgitating because he most likely has a crop infection.
Big owls can hunt with missing eyes. Smaller owls might need binocular vision to hunt moths and such, or they might not; there hasn't been much research on this. No matter what, the screech owl with a missing eye is going to live out the rest of his life in captivity.
X-ray machine wasn't working, which is most unfortunate because an African spurred tortoise ate a needle and it's stuck in his cheek. I also couldn't clean upstairs because I couldn't fill the mop bucket.
We're finally going to get temperatures that stay above freezing for a while, so the salamanders are getting released. We released the flicker and he was like "eff you all" and flew away.
The main difference between flickers and woodpeckers is that flickers hunt grubs and ants on the ground, while woodpeckers find their food inside of trees.
Priya didn't want to show the tour group our flying squirrel, for fear that he'd escape.
A kid asked if Spyro could breathe fire.
"I shouldn't chip paint off of the highway and eat it is what you're saying," says Tiffany. Not unless you want to end up like the people who maintain the sjwlist.
Squirrels should weigh 200+ grams, be able to crack nuts and acorns, and be able to climb. We're giving them some peanuts to try. I'm pretty sure the largest squirrels we have weigh around 150 grams.
burning question: Ian R. MacLeod asks: Why do the names of people who send spam e-mails all sound as if they've come from a 1920s romantic novel?
