An ice-cold wind is coming from the north and it’s pouring with rain; so those of us who had to do jobs outside had numb hands !! No so strange they’re predicting snow for the week-end. “Emily” had endured well the surgery. Now only trying to get food and fluid in her. In spite of the bad weather the Hedgehogs had eaten well; only all cat-biscuits were spoiled by the rain. At 8.17 a.m. arrived the little cat “Mouslet” from Kallonís: was indeed a little one, so borne the right name. And the color was fitting as well. In exactly 27 minutes was taken away from her the chance to enlarge the cat-population in that village > so see further at CAT. We have an orange weather-alert due to expected thunderstorms, stormy winds and snow . . .
In any case it’s pouring with rain from the time we woke-up (4.40 a.m.) !! We could remove the hanging cast from the wing of the shot Pigeon; the splint around the leg will still remain for a day or so. The wing of the Buzzard is stinking quite badly > so we started with Dermisol-solvens. The immense hole in the wing of the Pale Barn Owl, where we removed yesterday that dead piece of humerus, has closes completely within 24 hours. With endless patience and an own fluid mixture of food Joren has succeeded in letting “Emily” eat . . . . so HOMAGE !! We have given 2 Barn Owls a colored foot-ring to recognize them better and because they are lodged now together with the other ones in the Sick-Bay. The one, mentioned as “White Barn Owl” (09-216; December 5th) will be named now Purple Barn Owl, while the “new Pale Barn Owl” will be named Blue Barn Owl. The little cat “Mouslet” was taken back at 11.40 a.m., and thereafter we (at last) could take back-in the completely “drowned” Long-legged Buzzard “Granny”. The same had to be done with our blind Rook, the “Down-syndrome Jackdaw” and the nest-misfit Hooded Crow.
At 7.47 p.m. suddenly all electricity on the whole island disappeared > so no central heating anymore, handsfree phones which didn’t work anymore (but the phone-bell which is connected to the phone-net was of course working and of course they phoned us . . . . !!), computers which were completely dead and so on. Only at 8.10 we had light and heating again. Fifty minutes later Joren came back to tell (and show) us the first snow was falling and at 9.15 p.m. we had to take the doggies out in a howling blizzard !!
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