I kept my word

I'm so fired!!

Okay so everyone should just fire me from the blogging thing b/c really, it hasn't been since April!!! Where did the time go? Oh I know, taking care of babies!!! Animal babies. The season seems to be alittle slower than last year, and I put the blame on the weather. We had a few nasty weeks in June where a lot of the songbird nests failed. Babies we got in were bad shape!

So I will let you in on some of the photos I have taken over the past few months of the babies we have, I will need to get some from work. I have actually been doing a lot of my photography with the work camera b/c well we keep going, do we have pictures of this?? And the answer has been no, so this year I am trying to be very diligent on getting photos of all the different animal types on the work camera so Shona has many to chose from when it comes to writing her articles for the magazines!

Okay, so on with the show.

Well, I didn't thief any of the photos from work so I will start with what I have.

Okay, so non work stuff. I have spent some time hanging out on the island and doing something I haven't done in years and am wondering why I haven't. I went tidepooling in one of the historically lowest tides.

I got some pictures and then my batteries were dead, thank goodness our wolf hollow picture guru was with us and had her camera.

Here is a little urchin!!

A little "blood sea star" a Herica

Coral:

a decorator crab chilling in the shade:

Gooseneck barnacles:

Grandma's cove:

a sea pen of some sort:

A Pisaster and his suckers on the rock:



some tubes:

alright, on to some animal work photos. a sleepy young river otter:

The other otter who wouldn't eat (Shona feeding):

Otters first few days outside with "swim time"

Tree swallows at feed time:

Barn swallow with their wide open mouths:

Barn swallows, just chilling:

Of course, what everyone else is looking for some seal photos!! Meet Coho:

This is O'o after being sprayed:

Here is O'o being tubed by Jessica:

This is Palila:

And last but not least little Stilt. Stilt has been marked with a paint stick on the beach for monitoring purposes, and has a little humpback from me giving him sub-cutaneous fluids:

I am uploading some pictures to my google location right now, so I don't have address to send you for those but here is the closest I can get you:

here is one of the videos of the river otters, but you can look at the other videos under other videos by user check it out!!