February 4th

And again it was –0 ° Centigrade early this morning and the water bowls in the aviaries were covered with ice !! The Hedgehogs had eaten only a bit. Today the disabled birds are allowed out again. The shot Pigeon, which had come-in January 18^th (10-009), was transferred to the pigeon-cage in “The Keep” for flying-practices. Received colored foot-rings. The head-injury of the Dog-Fox has no need anymore to be treated with Dermisol-cream: is clean and only some minor scabs are present. So a statue for the inventor of this stuff !! (N 2). At 3.42 p.m. a phone-call from a María from Mytiléne, who next to the salines over here had spotted a Greater Flamingo which was sitting on the ground and which wasn’t able to fly away > so we went for a ride to pick-up the bird. It really was a “bloody nervous” trip, because we had to drive through almost a foot thick mud and unknown-deep puddles. The bird we could catch at 4.02 p.m. > see further at GREATER FLAMINGO. On the pictures Irah has made from the bird, it seems if there are a lot of inshot-holes in the legs > we’ll check-out tomorrow. Is that the case, the bird is indeed “ shot from the air”. Our contact in Holland could tell us it almost sure is a male, but asked if we tomorrow could verify this by internal examinations > and so we’ll do.