Holtsville Ecology Center

We finally got to the Holtsville Ecology Center this morning...and toured the park in record time! It's a small park, and we made short work of it: when the kids were out of the stroller, Nolan was running from cage to cage...then he had to get back in the stroller because he got a little out of control. Then as we looked at the animals, he kept urging "Let's go see something else!" We got to feed the goats (no picture of that, since I had to hold the kids' hands open for the goats to eat), and McKenna was particularly smitten with the recently-shaved llama...reminded me of the shaved white cat from Austin Powers (Mr. Biggelsworth). The kids got face-to-face with an emu drinking from his water tub (second from bottom right), which they thought was funny, and Nolan kept comparing animals to one another...so the emu "looks like a chicken" (I suggested ostrich, but he insisted it was like a chicken...oh well). And I was particularly amused with the fenced in cow (holstein heifer, actually-after careful inspection-the sign read cow/bull, so when I didn't immediately see the udder, I told Nolan it was a bull-oops! ...wouldn't want grandma and grandpa to think I'm teaching the children incorrect terminology)...but I was amused that it was behind two chain-link fences like the bear-guess they're taking extra precautions against mad cow disease on the island...wouldn't want the herd (1 cow) to charge (mosey toward) the crowd (5 people)! :) Sorry, the upstate came out in me just then!