Birds!

Discovery Cove has a beautiful aviary! 

It is a very large area that is all screened in, and when you walk in, they give you cups of food to feed the birds.  With all that free food constantly flowing, I thought the birds might not be very interested.  While it took some time for them to warm up to us, after a while we had birds everywhere!

Shelby and Abby offering some food...

The bird is thinking about taking some from Abby.

Jackpot!

This bird flew down from a tree to see what the girls had to offer...

guess he (or she) liked it!

We could tell they had definitely warmed up to us when they started landing right on our hands!

(And I wish I would have had my camera handy when two birds decided to plop right down on the top of Abby's head...let's just say she did NOT enjoy that!)

Even my close-up camera couldn't scare this bird off my hand...

Definitely a very neat experience!!!