Shake, Pull, and Push

How many times have you been on your way to work and all of the sudden you think- “Did I lock the front door?”  For Animal Keepers this is a daily fear.  So we all use different methods to ensure that we did in fact LOCK the door.  Some keepers check the locks two or three times before leaving the area.  When we work together as teams, we double check each others locks.  I have adopted what I call theRead more
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Christmas 2010

It’s around 11:00 and Christmas 2010 is very uneventful- nothing to laugh or cry about yet. (Click here to read about past Christmas’ which were much more interesting!) I arrived around 5:30 this morning. There was no rain, no flat tires, no really sick animals, nothing. I checked in with the security guard and then began my day. I let Ladybelle ferret wander around. It did take 10 photos to get this non-blurry photo of her. I worked through feeding,Read more

QuikPost: Snow Day

We were too busy today dealing with the ice, snow, sleet, and rain to take photos. Jim, our Landscape Director, got this pretty shot of the bear waterfall. It reminds me of some photos that ranger Greg took last year when it was COLD- take a look!Read more
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A morning in ETW

Sherry is always trying to remind me to take the camera out with me in the morning before heading to Explore the Wild. After all, you never know what sorts of interesting things you could find to blog about!  Well, a couple of Thursdays ago, I finally remembered to take the camera! So this is what mine and Mikey’s morning looked like… It started with one of our vehicles being broken, so we had to share a vehicle with theRead more

Quik Post: Snow days

Today was the first snowfall that Durham has seen this year. While out in Explore the Wild, I snapped this shot of the bears eating. The lemurs watched the snow fall out of their exhibit window and Max, our steer managed to frolic around in it.Read more