If any of you live in the midwest, then you know that there has been nonstop rain for the last few days. This is honestly one of the wettest summers I can remember here in Ohio. The rain did not let up today, which meant that it was going to be a very wet day at Red Wolf Sanctuary.
Since the bears live mostly inside, we were still able to scoop poo and feed them (lucky us!). Nothing too exciting to report from the bears this week. They are shedding like crazy, and their fur is drifting around in tumbleweeds the size of rodents. After we took care of the bears, we went to look in on Yuma, who was moved to the new enclosure that was finally finished. It is so much bigger than her old one and she was so happy! It was raining today, so she didn't venture out from under the overhang. But I still got a few good pictures of her despite the rain.
The baby foxes were moved to the indoor portion of Yuma's old enclosure, because it is one of the only place from which they can't escape. I was silly and forgot to switch my phone to landscape before taking the following video, so sorry about that:
After stopping by to say hello to Yuma and the baby foxes, we went back into the wooded area to look for likely spots to place some screech owl boxes. We are going to release the babies screech owls tomorrow, so we wanted to make sure that they would find somewhere to hide.
Due to the rain, many of the creeks are quite full.
So full, in fact, that some of the paths were crossed by rapidly running creeks. That didn't stop us, of course, and we had a great deal of fun crossing this particular creek. It is fondly called Salamander Super Highway. I don't know why.
The rest of the day was spent indoors, out of the rain. The visitor barn was in need of some mopping, so that finally got accomplished. We also grudgingly began organizing the tool shed, which is a maze of piles of mismatched tools. Not quite as exciting as frolicking with foxes, but very very necessary!
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