Sheri Myler, our student who is doing a series of placements with us over the next year or so is back for her second stint. Once again, I am putting her to work and she will be blogging each day about her time here...
This day was much the
same as the previous one. Again I did not do the animal rounds and spent much
of the day type-setting the Eberhart book. Today it was “K”, “L” and the
beginning of “M”. This was the primary task of the day.
A healthy supplement
to this was a drive out to the B&B of a family friend of the CFZ, to see
their animals. These included a snowy owl, a harris hawk, three pregnant goats,
various finches and two barn owls and two hedgehogs which were still asleep
and, so, we didn’t really get to see them. We then stopped by one of the
smallest and best maintained churches in the area to have a little look at the
renovations.
The cat hunt was again
fairly thrilling, though not as much so as the night before last. During a good
lengthed drive, around some areas we hadn’t been before on the cat hunts, we
saw two animals. We got a good view of a deer running away from us and a very
good view of a badger which ran away at first, but then turned around to face
us, before hopping out of sight, into the hedge.
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. So after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.
