Buena Vista

Shot from the top!

The weather may not be quite spring like but I went up to Buena Vista Park this past week. The views are great and slowly but surely the birds are migrating through!

Seasonal waterfall on the drive up!

Dreaming of Spring!

This winter seems to have gone on forever. I needed a little color and green in my day. So I headed up to the cities and went to Como Park Zoo and Observatory. I enjoyed a few moments soaking up the smells and the bright colors. Spring can't come soon enough!

Walk in the Woods

Went for a hike on the property for the first time in quite awhile. There were signs of spring everywhere and there were already a few flowers popping up. Gave me a chance to clear my head - now if only the flies would disappear!

Woodrow

This week brought us more signs of spring. The ice went out on the lake and the smelt started running. As enrichment for our eagle Woody, we put a few smelt in his bath on Tuesday. He was jacked - at first just for a bath and then for the fish. Here are a few pictures of the excitement.

Bath before eating

Hunting

Hunting

Gotcha!

Got another

Done!

Spring? Maybe?

Okay Mother Nature, I get it. Jokes on me. Just when I get my hopes up that spring is around the corner you prove other wise. I "love" the approximate 10 inches of snow in late March. Thanks. 

In other random news this week, we had a pair of mallard ducks come in for rehab. After an exam and a bath, we couldn't find anything wrong with them. We released them right away but they certainly entertained us with lots of quacking and even some unwelcomed advances by the male.

Female taking a bath

Male and female mallard

SPRING!!!

Nuthatch

I feel like we have been trapped in a never ending winter. The great news is that temperatures are FINALLY starting to warm up and the snow is melting! YAY!

Isis in mid-call, enjoying the sun (please ignore the smudgy window).

This past week we had the return of some of our friends - the robins and (my favorite) the sandhill cranes. I feel like I should go driving around in a hunt to find them. We also had the start of maple syrup season and our little education birds were given back their entire enclosures. Isis made sure to announce that spring was here and alternated flying laps in her mew and calling "klee, klee, klee" all yesterday afternoon.