Thursday, 17 October 2013
There are times in life where you think
something is a good idea and you will do it, and then as the time to do it
comes closer and closer you think to yourself, why the hell did I think that
was a good idea!! I leave for Argentina tomorrow (don’t mention the Falkland’s!).
I am going to a joint Raptor Research Foundation/World Working Group for Birds
of Prey and Owl/Neotropical Raptor Group Conference. I am giving a paper on the
vultures in India and Nepal, chairing a session and taking the minutes for the
Board Meeting, because the secretary is not going to be there. However, I would
much rather stay at home!!! 
I know my staff and volunteers who are
wonderful will keep things going and get stuff done, but I hate to not be here!!
Plus I am missing the autumn, which is my favourite time of the year – damn it!
The front lawn is done and dusted and
reseeded, just waiting for the grass to show its head, which I think it will
soon. The hospital is really coming on, one side of the roof is done, the other
side will be started tomorrow, Mike and Craig have done sterling work on it.
The plaster boarding is started inside and the windows and doors will go in
over the next couple of days. The boxes are being made, the tiles for the floor
are ordered, the electrics is being done now and we are on track – I hope!!
All the birds are flying well, my hobby is
loose and called Kiligray, Muckle Row, my Red Kite is going well and Holly’s –
Virtle Rock, is flying brilliantly, but not always turning on time before
landing in a tree. Generally the falcons are coming on and we just got Cool
Ground ( Snowy Owl ) going, ready for the Owl Evenings, which start in
November.
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| watching the new roof go up, admiring staff!! |
Needless to say I am away for the first one,
I have to go back to India on November 4th to 11th, for
the SAVE meeting, but at least it is a reasonably short trip this time.
Briza is
still lame, she has a torn cruciate ligament, which is going to take a while to
heal. We are hoping that Sorrel is pregnant, although the votes are out on that
at the moment, sometimes I think she is and sometimes I think she isn’t.
There is
talk that we are going to be facing the coldest winter for 100 years, but I am
told that the people forecasting it are not experts, I have to say I hope we
don’t, because it does make life tricky, but with the heaters in the Hawk Walk,
and the new very insulated hospital, we should be able to manage.
Ah well,
back to getting ready to leave, phone charged, better get the camera batteries
done, notepad organised, clothes clean, dog food and fish food in, all should
be well.
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