Falco Peregrinus, Slechtvalken: 02/10/09

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Oberhausen: courtship

The Oberhausen nestcam is working again! And both male and female were there in head-bow-low and digging holes!

Early this morning there suddenly was a hand cleaning the Zurich nestledge. And by doing so they accidentally knocked of the railing. Sometime later one of the peregrines came by to take a look and inspect the nestbox as well. Pity we cannot see what is going on inside during the season

Indianapolis: courtship

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.
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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