Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch, Part 2

We've been so busy that I did not get part 2 of our visit to the Ostrich Ranch posted until now!

Part 1 can be found here: https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2022/03/rooster-cogburn-ostrich-ranch-part-1.html

Part 2 of our visit to Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch:

Next were the bunnies -- we paid for food with the supplied tokens -- they were so gentle!

... sweet bunnies...

... enjoying their food!

We had finished with all the grazing animals. We had a lot of food left, so the dwarf goats (the last grazing animals) got a lot of food from us. Maybe other folks are running low by the time they get to the last ones so we made up for folks who had been more generous to all the ones before!

We used coins to get duck food too...

They were kind of messy as they splashed water on the food as they were coming to eat it.

Then we went to the giant Tortoise area...

They were big!

The instructions indicated that you could hold the piece of asparagus in your fingers but to only let them chomp once or twice and then drop it... or... you could hold the asparagus in a spring clothespin (provided) -- we took that option!

Neither of us wanted our fingers "chomped"!

The next area, Lorikeets, was my favorite - though initially it was the least impressive. We had been given small plastic containers of "nectar". The lady who let us into the enclosure told us to hold it like an ice cream cone, and the birds would land on our hand, take the top off, and feed from it.

Well, when we first got in there, the birds in the enclosure were full and totally uninterested in feeding any more. There were others in a cage beyond that were screeching... as I indicated, initially, it was not much fun!

But then one of the keepers opened the door from the back cage... and lots of hungry lorikeets poured out!

Initially, it was almost scary as they all flew out!

...but then one landed on my hand, took the top off the container...

... dropped the top on the ground and proceeded to eat the nectar!

Carl was capable of taking pictures while feeding them...

... I was not!

A single one on Carl's hand.

The keeper had told us that if one landed on your shoulder, you needed to act like a pirate...

... we weren't sure what a pirate would act like...

... even after the cups were empty, and we had picked up the tops off the ground and put them back on the containers to throw away, the lorikeets came over to take the top off and look for a full container again!

They have a pool with stingrays that you can feed -- I remember niece Ginny telling me that the Sonoran Desert Museum had created a stingray habitat because the Sonoran Desert extends down into Mexico to the Gulf of California, so technically, the stingrays are part of the fauna of the Sonoran Desert....

We did not pay the extra to get Stingray food -- I had fed them in the wild at Stingray City in Grand Cayman and while on a "lagoon safari" at Bora Bora -- it was fun to feed them when I could be underwater with them, but I didn't think leaning over into the tank would be all that great.

The final animals were "diving ducks" - we didn't feed them, but there were 4 different tanks and evidently food was released once an hour into each tank at 15 minutes apart from each other (one tank at the top of the hour, one at 15 minutes after, one at 30 minutes, and the last at 45 minutes). We didn't see the food released, but two of the ducks were diving down in one of the tanks, so we enjoyed watching them.

That's it on our visit to Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch! It is definitely a tourist trap, but fun nonetheless!