Sydney Sawkins' photo blog: Nature's Nursery is an amazing organization.

Nature's Nursery is a wildlife rehabilitation and conservation education center located in Whitehouse Ohio. They strive to educate the public about the wildlife in our own backyards.
Laura Zitzelberger is the director of operations at Nature's Nursery and she was kind enough to help me with my sound slides project for photojournalism. She took time out of her day to give me a tour of the facilities, and see some of the heart of what the center does.
From opossums to owls, and squirrels to birds of prey, all the animals in their care are provided with food, shelter and medical care. I even was able to get up close and personal to an eastern screech owl named Einstein and a cormorant named Darcy.
In several of the cases, some of the animals will never be able to be released and instead can be used as education animal. For those that can be released, the volunteers try to make them not become comfortable with humans. This way they have a better chance of surviving in the wild when released. Sadly there are three animals that they are not able to rehabilitate. Those three are coyotes, raccoon, and deer.
The other main part of the heart of Nature's Nursery is educating the public. Many assumptions need to be dispelled. One of these that Laura says they face a lot is people think that if they touch a baby animal that the mother will then abandon it. However it seems that this is not the case.
It was an amazing experience and I would like to thank Laura for allowing me to not only see what Nature's Nursery does, but to also be able to show the public some of the animals that benefit from this organization.