Falco Peregrinus, Slechtvalken: James River Bridge: evening snack

Sunday, April 20, 2008

James River Bridge: evening snack

How these darlings grow. It each time amazes me how fast it goes. It only seems yesterday that I saw the first one hatch. This high metabolism requires enormous amounts of energy. That's why they are having so many meals a day and in between sleep. They have to have a full crop constantly to have a constant energy supply. Sir james and Elizabeth are very busy all day hunting for- and feeding their 3 babies.

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Splendor

" We need another, and a wiser, perhaps a more mystical,
concept of animals.
Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice,
man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge
and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.

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We patronize them for their incompleteness,
for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves.
And therein we err, and greatly err.
For the animal shall not be measured by man.
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In a world older and more complete than ours
they move finished and complete,
gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained,
living by voices we shall never hear.
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They are not brethren.
They are not underlings.
They are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time,
fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.”
*
Henry Beston