Joel Takes the Goslings Out for a Swim

Today is their lucky day.

Joel feeds them some grass

Bob and Fred crash the party

beautiful creatures

Two More Arrivals

a small hare, delicate as glass

Elementary Students Visit

Although the Atlantic Wildlife Institute is not open to the general public like a zoo or nature park, it would be a waste not to utilize our unique position to benefit the community. Special appointments are made with local schools to allow for educational tours of our facilities. Yesterday, about sixty five grade six students visited.

Barry conveys some of our core messages.

The birds of prey rehabilitation building.

Baloo, our resident black bear. Read his story here.

the raccoons are always favorites

After some coaxing from the children Barry takes out Zoe, a domesticated white rabbit, for them to pet.

When showing off the baby animals, one can predict choruses of "aaaawwwwww"s and "ooooooohhhhh"s.

Lunch time!

After lunch we did some indoor and outdoor activities. We would have more photos of that, but at the time our cameraman was busy playing the role of an eagle, hunting down sixth grade rodents attempting to gather food.

Barry explains the education center.

Pam shows how the animals here are fed.

Over the weekend we took in a few orphaned animals.

a small gosling

the younger gosling is able to socialize with the older ones

two young crows

two baby raccoons

a grackle

and last but not least, a baby starling

ugly little beast isn't he?

Chipmunks Arrive!

Today a woman called in, telling us she had uncovered some baby chipmunks while gardening. When she stumbled upon them the night before their mother was missing, and in the morning she had still not returned. It was unlucky that they would have survived alone; we were happy to take them in.