Today was the first day of working at the WorldVets clinic here in town, and my job was cleaning the surgical instruments after use, packing them up into specific kits, and sterilizing those kits in an autoclave. It was a long day and we did our best to help reduce the number of feral animalsContinue reading “Wow! The tortoises sure are huge here…”
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The river delivers again…
After a nice rain to rinse the dust off everything, it was a magnificent morning in Estabrook Park, and my first treat of the day was finding another brood of mallard ducklings, nine this time, about halfway upstream. “Eat up, Kiddos!” Even farther upstream, I also found another snapping turtle laying her eggs, and timeContinue reading “The river delivers again…”
More birds than parks, but just barely…
It was a pretty nice morning in Estabrook Park, especially compared to earlier in the week, but it felt as though we might be past the peak of migration. There were still warblers about, but it seemed as though they had thinned out a bit. Anyway, I got to the pond nice and early, andContinue reading “More birds than parks, but just barely…”