Frozen wonderland

Many days of cold and frozen water buckets!

The cold is here to stay for a while longer

Still freezing here!

Flying squirrel makes rare appearance

Look who appeared today when I came with his food--Our Southern Flying Squirrel!

This species is extremely nocturnal and we don’t see him very much except his sleeping body curled up in his nestbox. Over the last few days, he’s been coming out to greet us. We love it!

Nesting no longer

I’m off my egg and assuming my regular daily duties, like eating more!

Peanut butter--a favorite treat!

Look what Sam loves – peanut butter!

Thanks to our peanut butter fairy, Sam and all the other peanut butter loving animal ambassadors (opossums, crow, coyote, bobcat, southern flying squirrel) will have loads of peanut butter!

Lookout Creek flowing again

Lookout Creek is beautiful as it’s thawing!

Christmas toys into the New Year

After Christmas each year, we gather discarded Christmas trees and give them to many of the animals for enrichment. 

They love the collection of smells on the tree. They also jump on it, pull, eat it, pee and poop on it and whatever other form of fun they can think of. It’s great entertainment!

A little less ice

Yay! Melting ice means above freezing temps!

A wintry muck

This is what happens when we have sustained below freezing temps! 

Broken pipes and well pumps! This is what happens when we have sustained below freezing temps! Broken pipes and well pumps!

There's plenty of ice to go around

Mini hockey anyone?

Alternate water source

This is my water source while things are being repaired! Bucketing water from this source to the enclosures.

Frozen!

This is our Bobcat’s water sculpture for today!

Deer season = special treats!

Deer season is awesome! 

Check out all the scraps we get from a local processor! 

The Red Wolves, vultures, Bobcat and Coyote love it!

More ice than you can shake a stick at!

Check out this chunk of ice!

Too cold for bird baths!

This is our juvenile black crow who fell out of his tree when he was very young. 

This is his first winter and apparently no one told him not to take a bath when the temperatures are below freezing. Those are ice crystals on his feathers! We immediately took him inside to thaw out and he is just fine!

Frozen water!

It’s cold! 

The water hoses freeze and usually all the animals’ water freezes, too. We spend a lot of time breaking up water and this time I found a feather frozen in it!

Preparing for the colder side of winter

I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays!! 

We’re getting ready for some much colder temperatures by putting extra hay in with some of the animals and moving the smallest animals inside. The Sandhill Cranes love to pick through their new hay!