An eagle, her baby, and the porcupine

Well, these past few days have been busy busy busy... Sunday was a relax/laundry/explore day. It sure was a good day to explore because as I was walking down to the flats, a huge ball of quills passed in front of me. It was by far the largest porcupine I had ever seen. The next day I worked super hard. We loaded four 15'X15' rolled up nets into a boat from the floating fish pens. Each net was a couple hundred pounds a piece... while we were loading the nets I heard a baby bird cry. When I looked over I saw an eagle flying into the trees and there was her baby waiting to be fed. It's so good to see bald eagles all the time being that the areas around Starkville only house a few eagles and they are hard to catch a glimpse of. After we loaded all the nets up and loaded the rock bags on to the barge we headed back to the hatchery on the skiff. After that I was taken in to the "boiler" room even though it's not hot in there at all. The whole incubation room is kept super cold for the salmon when they were hatching. We no longer have any fish in the hatchery, it is mainly clean up time to prepare for next season. I climbed up a twenty foot ladder on to the top section of the boiler room that holds three huge water tanks that i had to climb down into, pressure wash and scrub to look like new. Then the rest of the afternoon we loaded thousands of pounds of fish food into holding trailers to save for next season. Today I scraped off the silicone from the dam boards in the top of the troughs in the ceiling and cleaned all those. Then I dried everything off and re-siliconed them into place. Then I was sent to check all the fry screens and make sure they were sound to use for next year. If not, I had to replace the deficiencies and put them back in the right stack. Keep in mind there are over 900 fry screens to go through... we've gone through probably 200 of them so far... It was a pretty easy day today besides being in the ceiling most of the day but tomorrow starts the real work. We're breaking down the incubation trays and taking them out one by one. There are 8 modules of 2 rows stacked 6 high and 6 trays long. Ill have to update this tomorrow if I'm not too tired... lol have a great one :)