February 11th

We have been lucky last night, because the Dog-Fox had bitten the iron wire (which was closing his cage better) into pieces. Luckily he hadn’t been able to open the door of his cage !! Heavy thunderstorms early this morning, so the disabled birds will stay-in temporarily till the weather improves. In spite of the bad weather the Hedgehogs had eaten well. We had to take-back from the Aviary our Hawfinch (06-038; March 21^st ’06): was sitting flabbergasted on the bottom and the left eye is immense swollen. We have started the treatment with Cavasan-cream. By eight o’clock the weather had improved in a way we could take the disabled birds out; however we’re ready taking them back-in again as soon as the weather worsens. Our two Buzzards were ringed with the yesterday re-discovered aluminium rings; the “red” Buzzard received (of course) a red ring, while the female got a silver one. Doing so we discovered that the mentioned last one has as well skin-problems in the left leg !! Both birds got a bowl with meat in their cage and so won’t be fed at midday. At 4 p.m. it showed none of the two had eaten > so tomorrow lesser feeding and again a bowl with food in the cage. The door of the cage of the Dog-Fox was fastened this time with an extra iron wire. And already at 9 p.m. we had to safeguard the cage again; one of the two iron wires was cut and disappeared . . . . what we’ll find early tomorrow ?? At 10.30 p.m. all was still OK.