February 9th

With a “tinned” Dog-Fox it was early this morning quite a better feeling than yesterday. At 7.53 a.m. we have transferred the two juvenile Pigeons (10-018; January 26^th from Mytiléne, and 10-019, January 27^th from Kallonís), with respectively a double green ring and a double red ring, to the pigeon-cage in “The Keep”. The first the doublered did, was . . . . taking an extensive bath. It seems if the tendons of the right leg of the female Buzzard are lasting damaged. She has now a kind of “club-foot” which is an obstruction for a release next month. From the wing of the red Buzzard we could remove a scab with thereunder dead tissue; the created clean hole was “pointed” with Dermisol-cream. In the right eye a “corpus alienum” remains present, which is partly in front of the pupil; this however shouldn’t be an obstruction for release next month. Was the Spurr-tighed Tortoise “Stoffel” (09-194; October 24^th) 1787 gram on January 1^st; this morning she was 1846 gram. Irah has had the chance to practice her stitching on an animal: a dead rat, which was used herefor before. Tomorrow she’ll practice stitching the crop of birds. At 3.30 p.m. we discovered some feathers in the cage of the Lapwing: showed to be the hand-part of the right wing which had died-off and had come loose today.