Frontier Festival

Our zoo held our annual Frontier Festival last weekend. It's a three day festival embracing the ways of early America. They have black smithing, spinning wool, Native Americans, horses, it's just a lot of fun. Friday went well, but Saturday was rained out. I took these when we went out Sunday for my son's shooting lesson with his new bow.

Here is the zoo booth, beautifully decorated with our biofacts:

One of my favorite activities with the zoo is running a table. People are so curious about what you have on display, and it's a great teaching tool. We usually have a live animal or two out as well for people to see and touch. On the table we have a Gopher Tortoise shell, (GA state reptile) an alligator hide. This was confiscated by fish and wildlife. A coyote skull facing away from you. Further down, a hawk wing, plus hawk and owl talons. Behind the shell, you can see a bit of the sea turtle skull.

On the other side of the table, we have this on display:

and this:

Those two pictures are of the same butterfly! One side looks like the blue sky, one looks like sunlight, or flowers. Great camouflage!

We flew the hawk! This is Maverick, our Red shouldered hawk. He came to us as a white fuzzy chick. How he's grown!!

Josh had never held a snake before. We remedied that. This is him holding Twiggy, our Gray Rat snake. This is Josh with his, 'what do I do now?' face