COLD DARK ROOM

CarolM

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We just had over 3 inches of rain in under an hour. Roads, tunnels, creeks all flooded!

The Storm Approaching
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The Aftermath
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Please please send all your rain to us. Our dams are only apparently 50 % full. Although we have been having way more rain than last year. So I don't understand why they are not fuller. Unless they are deliberately lying to us about the dams in order to scare us into using less water or something. [emoji15] mmmm PARANOID MUCH???
 

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It was full on today. We were overrun with hedgehogs being admitted and my supervisor and I had to work round their cages to get to the birds.

My favourite teeny baby wrens are doing well. They’re still less than an inch long, but pretty much fully feathered. We have to feed them every 15 minutes!

Shh! But I snuck some photos in the big aviaries today where the older birds are.

In the corvid aviary. This lot are full of character! Jackdaws, magpies and jays.... and a very needy baby Carrion Crow that follows me everywhere.
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A jay in the corvid aviary
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And in the song bird aviary - Blackbirds, Song Thrushes and Starlings at the moment.

The starlings squawk loudly, but the thrushes just gently trill at you; it’s lovely.
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And a more adult blackbird in the aviary has been helping feed the youngsters. Their feeding instincts are very strong; they have been observed feeding goldfish in ponds as the orange mouth looks like a baby bird’s gape.
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Oh Wow. That is so awesome. I can just see you having the time of your life. [emoji3]
 

JoesMum

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Please please send all your rain to us. Our dams are only apparently 50 % full. Although we have been having way more rain than last year. So I don't understand why they are not fuller. Unless they are deliberately lying to us about the dams in order to scare us into using less water or something. [emoji15] mmmm PARANOID MUCH???

I suspect that, because it has been raining, people aren’t being as careful with their water use and so the dams are unable to fill properly :(
 

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Some of the torts are a little dehydrated, perhaps from my grandparents not keeping things as humid as I usually do in their enclosures but they did an amazing job nonetheless. Urates have the occasional small gritty specs which I had to have a good feel of them to find (disgusting I know:eek:)

I prescribe extra soaks, some watery romaine lettuce and a bit of water melon to rehydrate them.
 

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Please please send all your rain to us. Our dams are only apparently 50 % full. Although we have been having way more rain than last year. So I don't understand why they are not fuller. Unless they are deliberately lying to us about the dams in order to scare us into using less water or something. [emoji15] mmmm PARANOID MUCH???

On the rain. The weather folks calculated that our area here - the greater Washington DC area - received more than THREE BILLION GALLONS of rain water in yesterday’s morning storm! Pretty amazing. ( my rain barrel is full )
 

CarolM

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Some of the torts are a little dehydrated, perhaps from my grandparents not keeping things as humid as I usually do in their enclosures but they did an amazing job nonetheless. Urates have the occasional small gritty specs which I had to have a good feel of them to find (disgusting I know:eek:)

I prescribe extra soaks, some watery romaine lettuce and a bit of water melon to rehydrate them.
Don't forget the TLC as well.
 

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