Falco Peregrinus, Slechtvalken: 01/23/09

Friday, January 23, 2009

Pic of the day....

Freedom of Fort Wayne, enjoying the afternoon together with a bunch of pigeons.....

Anita Zwiers of the Dutch forum caught this wonderful capture of Freedom.

Just after Freedom left, the pigeons came in: not just one but just take a look: by the many. Gives the word "Foodcache" quite a different meaning: live stock in the backyard. Silly creatures: one sitting still OK, but > 20 moving around, making noises is asking for trouble.

Oberhausen

The Oberhausen webcam is back online!

Last year this peregrine falcon couple in the German province of Nordrhein Westfalen was the first to lay eggs. The female started her clutch as early as February 22!
She laid 4 eggs, which all hatched. Sadly the youngest chick did not make it and died within 4 days after hatching. The other 3 fledged succesfully.
One of them crashed and was taken to a Bird shelter. How he is doing or what became of him is unknown.

X-Cell Black Dog

Alcoa

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