January 16th

The Hedgehogs have been very busy collecting and dragging grass-sods to their nest. At 10.10 a.m. a phone-call from Plomári with the question “if we were those ecologists, because they had found a “geráki” with a broken wing” and they didn’t dare to catch it. So we went in that direction: quite a lot of rocks on the roads and boughs, but as well a Prunus-like which had gently started blossoming . . . . !! At the agreed meeting-point a really “impressive woman” was waiting for us, and she should guide us to the place where the bird was. This showed to be high above Plomári; next to the church-yard. We could catch at 11.27 a.m. (without gloves) the bird (a Buzzard) and so we were guided again out of the village (alone we never had found the right road, in all those meandering shit-alleys !!). During catching the bird we had noticed already the bird had been shot (blood in the mouth) and that the right wing could be named a “really mess” > several open fractures. So see further at BUZZARD.

Tonight and to-morrow-morning the bigger birds-of-prey and the fox have their weekly fastening. In the evening at 9.30 p.m. the Buzzard was still alive.