We went on a field trip recently to the National Aviary. Back in February we attempted to get into the Aviary's "free" to the public day. We were blown away by how extremely busy the Aviary was despite the nasty cold weather. The line went out the door and all the way to the street corner and around. CRAZY. The perk was the Aviary was so swamped employees were passing out free tickets to people who were willing to JUST LEAVE and come back another day. That sounded good to us, so we took them up on it. One nice day in April we decided it was time to use those tickets.
They had a few birds of prey including the Bald Eagle and several Condors.
In this wetlands room, we saw some smaller free-flying birds. Dylan reached out and touched one unlucky bird.
We saw the Flamingo's. Ryan already knew why they were pink, but he was impressed at all the different types of Flamingos.
The highlight of the Aviary was getting to feed the birds. Well, trying to feed the birds. We had gone late enough in the day that many of the birds just weren't hungry after several earlier feeding presentations. Each child received a wax worm and they were instructed to hold it, palm open and as high as they could to entice the birds to eat from their hands. We were not able to entice any birds, but it was still fun.
Ok, well Ryan was a little dissapointed.
That's OK. Maybe another time! It was a beautiful day and we all got to experience it together.
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