OMG a POST!
Back in Manila, taking care of school business (or trying to, anyway). Will be going back home to Bacolod by around the middle of the month, because I'm still homeless, and the tickets to and from are still cheaper than a hotel/hostel room. Am currently squatting over at seraph_dreams's place, but the arrangement's temporary.
Applied to UP dorms (upon my mother's insistence), but I KNOW I won't get in (anomalous application processes and missing requirements can do that to a person), and I already have a back-up residence in Katipunan waiting. It's at the very upper limit of my price range, but it's Katipunan, and I'll be living with another (former) law student, so at least I can mooch readings off her and get some help from her if I'm in a pinch. Unfortunately, I can't confirm anything until the results for the UP dorm applications show up, so... that's still technically up in the air.
What else? Oh yeah, in Bacolod, a funky-looking bird slammed into my grandparents' bedroom window and flapped around on the floor, completely stunned. It was a brown bird with a tiger-stripe pattern and wings and a tail built for speed and endurance. It was about the size of a pigeon, only sleeker and slightly longer. After getting its bearings a bit, we gave the bird a perch and the option to fly out the window whenever it damn pleased. It didn't it just kinda... hung out in my brother's room. The cats (Dobbie and her kittens decided they wanted to colonize my brother's room too) didn't pay the bird much mind, and they seemed to have developed an odd sort of alliance. ...mostly because they ignored each other.
We took the bird in overnight, and then donated it to the Negros Forest Environmental Institute the next day. No one in the house could identify the species, and we were concerned that we might have an endangered specimen. Our first stop was to the DENR, where the only thing they could confirm was that the bird was a species of cuckoo. Also, they had no cages or veterinarians, so we had to take it to NFEFI. It was finally at NFEFI, where our oddly tame (it just perched on my brother's finger while we were showing it to the DENR and NFEFI folks; we didn't cage it or anything) specimen was identified as a female Oriental Cuckoo; a migratory bird that winters in Southeast Asia. Not endangered, but certainly an interesting specimen nonetheless; especially considering how calm she was around humans.
Then again, it might have simply been concussed and too out of it to fly away.
Either way, it's at NFEFI, eating bugs and getting vet-treatment, and possibly being bullied by the serpent eagles and the Visayan Tarictic hornbill (a critically endangered species of hornbill only found in Negros; NFEFI has a few specimens for breeding and education), but at least it's with people who actually KNOW what to do with it.
Wala lang. Funky bird. Hee.
Applied to UP dorms (upon my mother's insistence), but I KNOW I won't get in (anomalous application processes and missing requirements can do that to a person), and I already have a back-up residence in Katipunan waiting. It's at the very upper limit of my price range, but it's Katipunan, and I'll be living with another (former) law student, so at least I can mooch readings off her and get some help from her if I'm in a pinch. Unfortunately, I can't confirm anything until the results for the UP dorm applications show up, so... that's still technically up in the air.
What else? Oh yeah, in Bacolod, a funky-looking bird slammed into my grandparents' bedroom window and flapped around on the floor, completely stunned. It was a brown bird with a tiger-stripe pattern and wings and a tail built for speed and endurance. It was about the size of a pigeon, only sleeker and slightly longer. After getting its bearings a bit, we gave the bird a perch and the option to fly out the window whenever it damn pleased. It didn't it just kinda... hung out in my brother's room. The cats (Dobbie and her kittens decided they wanted to colonize my brother's room too) didn't pay the bird much mind, and they seemed to have developed an odd sort of alliance. ...mostly because they ignored each other.
We took the bird in overnight, and then donated it to the Negros Forest Environmental Institute the next day. No one in the house could identify the species, and we were concerned that we might have an endangered specimen. Our first stop was to the DENR, where the only thing they could confirm was that the bird was a species of cuckoo. Also, they had no cages or veterinarians, so we had to take it to NFEFI. It was finally at NFEFI, where our oddly tame (it just perched on my brother's finger while we were showing it to the DENR and NFEFI folks; we didn't cage it or anything) specimen was identified as a female Oriental Cuckoo; a migratory bird that winters in Southeast Asia. Not endangered, but certainly an interesting specimen nonetheless; especially considering how calm she was around humans.
Then again, it might have simply been concussed and too out of it to fly away.
Either way, it's at NFEFI, eating bugs and getting vet-treatment, and possibly being bullied by the serpent eagles and the Visayan Tarictic hornbill (a critically endangered species of hornbill only found in Negros; NFEFI has a few specimens for breeding and education), but at least it's with people who actually KNOW what to do with it.
Wala lang. Funky bird. Hee.