On Thursday morning, Mom and I went with a friend of ours to the Heard Wildlife Sanctuary up in McKinney. I hadn't been there in a l-o-n-g time, so it was fun to go back and remember it. We went there a lot when I was younger :) One of the main reasons we went this time is because they had a baby ring-tailed lemur that Mom had seen when she and Dad went in March or April. Here is a picture of the baby. He's sitting on the door to the little playground set, and his mom is on the ground.
We also went into the butterfly house for a while - here's a couple pictures from that. I'm not good at knowing what butterflies are what species though, sorry ;-)
Then we went back to watch the lemurs more - baby was riding on his mom's back. They knew it was about time to be fed :D
The volunteers came and fed the animals - here's an albino raccoon!
I forget exactly what this one is called, but it's a relative of raccoons that lives in Mexico/South America.
And some Capybaras (or something like that!) They are actually rodents, but they are more like the size of pigs! And they love being in the water.
One more peek at the lemurs - they were all sitting together. The dad is in front, the mom is in back, and the baby was nursing. It was pretty cute :)
Then we went to an area inside that has big windows with feeders outside to watch the birds a bit :) Right when we got there, there was a beautiful male Ruby Throated Hummingbird. Sadly, I was too busy watching him and didn't get a picture :/ Below are House Finches at the tube feeder. There were lots of them.
Several other species of birds that we saw - on the left is a Hairy Woodpecker (or maybe a Downy), on the top is a Nuthatch that we saw just before leaving, and on the bottom are Mourning Doves, a male Brown-Headed Cowbird, and more House Finch. We also saw Carolina Chickadees and Tufted Titmice.
We had lots of fun spending a couple of hours there :) The bad part is that we got chiggers :P So I'm still a little miserable from that :(
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