Sunday, January 14, 2018

Cold storage

Braving the chill to get the news

The roseate spoonbills played 'hide the bill'

The lights (a heat lamp) were on in the lemur home

The black-crowned night heron had nowhere to go

The ibis seek food in any whether
ORMOND BEACH, FL - - It was sunny and breezy on Saturday in OB when we set out for the Alligator Farm in St. Augustine  And it was overcast and breezier when we arrived.  50-degrees with a 10mph wind cuts right through.  Consequently, nearly all the attraction's residents were trying to keep warm.
     The big and very slow moving Galapagos tortoise were hustled into sheltered quarters.  The information sign began with "Brrrrr...
     Other residents scrunched up and looked like one-legged feather lumps or had the keepers place heat lamps in their exhibit shelters.  Some, who call Florida, etc. 'home' just waited for warmer weather.

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