January 12th

We received the message from Holland that the yesterday taken-in Song Thrush is a male, and he was still alive early this morning as well. The left wing is hanging lesser, showed later in the morning. We could remove some dead tissue from the, now closing well, wing injury of the Pale Barn Owl (09-216; December 5^th). After we had made the wood of the sandbox a bit moisture-free with the help of a gas-burner, Joren has started covering as well the inside as the outside with a protecting layer of grey primer. At 11.25 a.m. there was a complete black-out for the whole island, which lasted until 12.20 p.m. We used this opportunity to remove carefully all the grass, which meanwhile had appeared on the sand, and to plant this in the cage of the Hedgehogs, hoping it will grow over there as well. The whole street until our sand-reserve was cleaned from, gathered over there in 8 years, sand and weeds, which was finished at 11.45 a.m. Two huge sacks, hardly bearable, was the result. For the reserve of pebbles was created a new storage. Hereafter we have transferred the green Sparrowhawk to “The Keep” for some practices; the leg-fracture is healed meanwhile.