Monday, 23 September 2013
Meant to put this on on Sept 9th before I left for India - forgot!! Sorry!!
It’s raining, but my garden badly needs it
and the pond could do with a top up right now. I am almost ready to got off to
India this afternoon. Nic Masters Chief Veterinary Surgeon at ZSL are meeting
up at Heathrow and flying to India and then on to Nepal later on the trip. We
have a ton of things to do and my luggage is full of stuff that I will not be
able to take as hand luggage so I have to check it in, I have not done that for
many years. Prefer only to travel light.
The smallest Steppe Eagle is huge!!! He
weighs a ton, but will soon start to get to a less unacceptable weight, he is
doing well and was out on the lawn for the first time the day before yesterday.
Muckle Roe is back on duty and doing well, she had three proper catches
yesterday, just needs to learn to feed on the wing now and it will be a done
deal. Chris has incredibly kindly given us her sister as well, so we plan on
flying the two together once they are both ready for it. Our other kites are
going well too. Most of the falcons are now flying free and coming on. Yeates
is going to stay working through the winter so we can work on his fitness which
is still a long way from good, mind you he would get fitter if he stopped
sitting down!
The dogs are well except that Briza is lame
and it has been difficult to get her to rest, so she is going to stay with
Penny, her breeder while I am away, I hope she is going to be OK, but it will
be very good for her.
The hospital is going on nicely, it is
starting to look like a real project now and today the telegraph pole is being
moved as it is in the way! The power guys have been great about it all. Abby
our really good work experience is going to stay for another three months which
we are really pleased about, it really helps in times when staff need to go on
holiday.
Agatha, our Canadian Golden Eagle is going
to a friend when I get back, she is just not suitable for a public aviary bird
and will be much happier being trained and flown, she is a really nice bird,
but too nervous for here and it is not fair on her. We have a new very settled
female coming this week to go with the male. Watamu is slowly coming back to
settling here, he is more nervous than he was and does not like the dogs, I
guess because he has not seen them for three years, but we did a training
session in the field on the last demo yesterday and he was getting there. A
friend of mine has a daughter getting married in Watamu this year and now we
know it is pronounced WaTAmu!
Other than that I am looking forward to
being in India and Nepal although I hate the travel and I am looking forward to
being home again!
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