Started in the Lorikeet Arena, practicing rule #1 of volunteering having fun!
...as Park Volunteer for a while. Started in the Lorikeet Arena, practicing rule #1 of volunteering having fun!
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Contrary to what some might think, it is NOT my job to go around taking cute koala pictures.That is a perk I take advantage of (often!) while I am doing hard yakka to help care for these lovely creatures. I rake their pens & bin all their poos (which by the way smell more like eucalyptus than feces), pull yesterdays browse from the pots, empty the water from the pots onto surrounding garden plants, refill the pots with fresh water, and then add new or re-cycled browse into those pots. Sunday volunteer work now also includes cleaning the gum shed & bins. Those green garbage bins are emptied, scrubbed, rinsed, & sprayed with F10 disinfectant so the Monday morning gum cutting crew has a head start filling them with fresh browse from CWS gum plantations. Another perk I take advantage of (because I'm special AND I asked nicely) I am allowed to help in the Pelican, water birds and giant eel feeding show. This week, Shawna (a TAFE student I did some Sunday shifts in Koala Photos with earlier) got some training in the ell feed procedures. Hope to see you all back here in September! Deluge rainfall for a few hours delayed opening the west side of the Sanctuary this morning as sections of the footpath were seriously under water. By 9:30 we were fully operational, but very wet. One red kangaroo tries to claim a private pen for her own. Interesting, as the enclosure is wrapped in chicken wire to keep kangaroos and people out! Two examples of residents in the Land of Parrots. Wombats sleeping in air-conditioned comfort. Wildlife rescue! I found a stick insect on the walk - probably washed off its tree in the storm - and relocated it back to some shrubbery. This was the second Tuesday of the month, and the view from Currumbin Vikings SLSC for our after shift lunch was still very cloudy.. Took an in today to show her some of the new exhibits/animals.
Bleeding heart dove. Regent bowerbirds. Parrots: Gang gang. Superb. Bourke's. Wombat. Tawney frogmouth. Swanp hen. Feen trees. Little lizards. Crocs. Emu. Water monitors. Butterflies. Dragonfly. Chameleon. Koalas. Red kangaroos. AND a fearsome grub/caterpillar about the size of my thumb! When it comes to climbing branches, two thumbs are better than one. Think about that as you look at today's pictures.
Macropods (kangaroos, wallabies & their kin) have big feet. So do emus. See how fast a little red kangaroo joey can move by hopping in the 4 little video clips. |
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March 2024
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