Falco Peregrinus, Slechtvalken: 11/15/08

Saturday, November 15, 2008

After 4 years of excellent service the old green nestbox was removed yesterday and replaced by a brandnew one. The box was made by the local Bird Workgroup from Gemert.
We wanted to instal new camera's as well, so both could be done at the same time. Roel Zwiers our technician uninstalled nestbox cam, microphone and the ledgecam. And installed a new nestboxcam, microphone and a new ledgecam. The new box was then placed on the grate and attached to the ledge.
The view from the ledge cam is aboslutely superb. The view from the nestbox is not yet OK, but we will fix that as well. So we can all enjoy S2, Pa and their new eyases next season.

Both S2 and Pa came to watch what the heck was going on, did some protesting for 10-15 minutes and left to prech and preen on the first ring.

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.”
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Henry Beston