Year Four - Day Eighty-Five

Sam’s  View

Today we went to the aquarium and we fed puffins, guillemots, kittiwakes, and murres! While I was feeding them, the guillemot poked me in the back. After that we did a behind the scenes tour! We saw cool stuff!  

 

Summer’s View

Today Sam and I went to the Alaska SeaLife Center to take a Behind-The-Scenes Tour and also to enjoy an interactive tour that allowed us to feed the seabirds in their aviary.  We got there just in time to go to the aviary, and it was really great. The guide was very nice, and she was informative about the birds and their habitats in the bay area around Seward.

After a cool tour, we got on our gloves and got a bucket of fish to feed the birds. It was so much fun! The cutest birds were the horned Puffins, but it was so interesting to see the different types of birds and what fish they each preferred. The Puffins were the pickiest, and they only wanted to eat the “cake” fish in the bucket, something called Houlie.

Some of the birds were nesting, and had chicks in their burrows to feed, so they were collecting fish to take back to their chicks. One little horned Puffin named Nemo was the cutest, stacking up the fish and waddling away to his nest. Sam and I both just loved this!

 

Later, we took a tour behind-the-scenes to see what kind of research was being done at this facility, and to learn about a lot of the animals that had been cared for and released. Again, the guide really knew her stuff, and it was fascinating to see how much work they do there!