Falco Peregrinus, Slechtvalken

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Terminal Tower, Cleveland

SW and Buckeye at the scrape this morning

Monday, February 18, 2008

Bologna

Head-bow-low, real courtship behaviour. I expect eggs at the end of february.

Ohio_Terminal Tower

Beautiful handsome amazing Buckeye, Resident male of the Terminal Tower -Cleveland.

Wanderfalken Oberhausen

Scraping bowles in the substrate is this beautiful flacon.

Have not seen that before!

Bologna

Aisha is back in the scrape. How long before she will lay her eggs?

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Zwolle

Sitting op the ledge , preening, what else .....

Up close and personal...

Wanderfalken Oberhausen

This beauty was preening in the Sunday morning sunshine. Until now I have only seen one Peregrine Falcon of the breeding pair. Wonder when the other one's coming back.

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