Falco Peregrinus, Slechtvalken: 08/21/08

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Frodocam: lots of visits

Watch Frodocam here:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/extras/frodocam/default.htm

All is well at De Mortel. That's the most important message. 2 Of the 4 juvs have left the Tower, and 2 are still around. Both are able to hunt for themselves and bring their catch back to the Tower. They mantle and defend their prey when S2 wants to join in for a bite: no way Mum.
Pa and S2 are returning to the scrape to renew their pairbond every now and then. The webcams are still transmitting and will be all winter!
You can watch the refresh on
http://www.evenementgemist.nl/mortel/

and live stream on
http://nl.justin.tv/demortel

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.

*
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.
*
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.
*
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