(no subject)
Mar. 9th, 2013 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
framlingemWhat a fantastic day today was. Clear, sunny, warm - six degrees! Work in the morning was a bit fraught, but under control by the time my shift finished. My folks picked me up and we made the drive out to the Ecomuseum, which is the zoo where my sister works.
Today was not just any day at the zoo, though. No! Today is the day when the bears, who woke up from their winter torpor (they don't quite hibernate) a couple of days ago, left the warm dark environs of their sleeping hut and greeted their annual adoring throng. We got there early, had lunch with my sister and a quick tour of the herps room (eensy-weensy wood frogs!), and then staked out a prime spot on the platform by the otters. My mother and I were interviewed by the guy from CBC, so we may be on the news! The bears were very sweet and sleepy, and it was all very exciting.
The otters and lynx were curled up (at opposite ends of the zoo) sleeping in the sunshine, the wolves were wondering why all the huge crowds, and Eenie the caribou (my favourite - she's a sweetiepie) was of the opinion that the crowds were all there for her. Indoors in the nocturnal animals exhibit, the Northern Flying Squirrels were leaping about and chasing each other, which was a rare treat as they're usually cuddled up in their hollow log.
Oh! Birds! It was a good day for birds. There were all the usual Ecomuseum residents, but on the way there we watched a flock of pine grosbeaks making merry in a tree with winter berries; we saw a bald eagle fly overhead at the zoo; and then on the way back we stopped off at the lakeshore in Dorval where we'd heard rumours of snowy owls on the ice, and sure enough, there were a pair of them. Lovely! Not to mention the red-tailed hawks dotting the way home.
A grand day out, indeed.
Today was not just any day at the zoo, though. No! Today is the day when the bears, who woke up from their winter torpor (they don't quite hibernate) a couple of days ago, left the warm dark environs of their sleeping hut and greeted their annual adoring throng. We got there early, had lunch with my sister and a quick tour of the herps room (eensy-weensy wood frogs!), and then staked out a prime spot on the platform by the otters. My mother and I were interviewed by the guy from CBC, so we may be on the news! The bears were very sweet and sleepy, and it was all very exciting.
The otters and lynx were curled up (at opposite ends of the zoo) sleeping in the sunshine, the wolves were wondering why all the huge crowds, and Eenie the caribou (my favourite - she's a sweetiepie) was of the opinion that the crowds were all there for her. Indoors in the nocturnal animals exhibit, the Northern Flying Squirrels were leaping about and chasing each other, which was a rare treat as they're usually cuddled up in their hollow log.
Oh! Birds! It was a good day for birds. There were all the usual Ecomuseum residents, but on the way there we watched a flock of pine grosbeaks making merry in a tree with winter berries; we saw a bald eagle fly overhead at the zoo; and then on the way back we stopped off at the lakeshore in Dorval where we'd heard rumours of snowy owls on the ice, and sure enough, there were a pair of them. Lovely! Not to mention the red-tailed hawks dotting the way home.
A grand day out, indeed.
