Scarlet Takes on the Birds

This past Saturday I had intended to hole up and focus entirely and exclusively on my schoolwork. But it didn't rain as it has the previous three Saturdays and I didn't want to waste this golden opportunity, so Josh and I took Scarlet to the Tracy Aviary instead. I've been meaning to go for a while but since an aviary is like an extremely limited zoo, I just didn't see the point. Holy cow, this aviary is incredible, though! Not only do they have absolutely fascinating birds and beautiful exhibits, but the grounds are fun to play on and there are play places for the children and the foliage and landscaping it beautiful to walk through. They offer a really interesting wetlands tour and you can feed the parrots or the pelicans and the South American exhibit is indoors and really steamy and possibly too hot for overly pregnant women. It's all just a ton of fun and I regretted getting there later than we had planned because we had to rush out of there to put Scarlet down for her nap. Overall it was well worth the trouble and I'm glad schoolwork got postponed until Monday.

The hornbill was almost as big as Scarlet.

The trick is to lob the fish gently into their mouths.

You can see him widening his lower bill to catch the fish.

The pretty parrots all in a row.

Scarlet was justifiably frightened of the peacock after he spread out his tail feathers.