On April 16th, I managed to get up way too early, with the help of Marty banging on the door, had a cup of French Pressed Tanzanian peaberry coffee and hit the road. I arrived at the Turtle Back Zoo much earlier than I thought I would, actually made it there just after noon, which is good because I just had enough time to go up and visit the wolves (through the fence) as well as some of the other animals.

	This is Tybor who's actual birthday will be the day of the Birthday Party which will be tomorrow, April 17th. He looks a bit like a dweeb here ;-)
	OK, here's a slightly better Tybor photo. He's beginning to show his age, but he is holding his own well against the two younger wolves.
	In fact, he seemed to holding his own quite well. They were actually just coming up and rallying to him a lot, but he was having none of that and made some great APs.
	Here is just a nice photo of Eclipse. She and Hera had a dominance fight last year and have since been separated, but hopes are that perhaps Hera might be able to reintegrate back into the pack now that she is very socially deprived...
	They recently have renovated the zoo and have a really nice elk/bison exhibit with two baby elk and two baby bison. The white elk is really cool. She's well socialized and quite friendly too.
Gina also has a parrot which flew into the zoo some time ago. He's not terribly fond of most people, but Gina and the bird get along quite well. Ah, I've just been informed by susan that actually he is a "Monk Parakeet" (not a parrot- although they sometimes are referred to as a dwarf parrot). They populate areas in certain portions of the U.S. (escapees developing colonies), though most tropical birds wouldn't be able to survive harsher weather as the U.S. sometimes can have. What separates the Monk Parakeet from most parkeets/parrots is the type of nests they build- muddy huge nests. The distinguishing feature between a parrot (usually) and a parrot is most parrots have short- wide tail feathers whereas parakeets have long slender tails.