Wildlife all around us!

Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center moved into our new home about 8 months ago, and we are so grateful for such a beautiful, healing, natural setting. Our staff and volunteers have been enjoying watching all the wildlife who flock to our property and to the local area. For example have every species of Pennsylvania woodpecker hanging around, a meadow vole who made his home under a piece of board in our back field, a blonde groundhog, and the latest visitor was a small garter snake who came out of his hibernation on a warm sunny day. The other day, though, we were excited to see a Kildeer on Township Line Road…maybe checking out a potential nest spot? Excuse the terrible picture, but due to total lack of traffic these days, one of our staff was able to stop and snap the photo. Kildeer are a new species for us to see! They are very interesting birds who are known for a a unique predator distraction technique - the broken wing display. They act like they are injured (and therefore easier prey) to lead a potential predator away from their nest (which is on the ground). How amazing is that?