Two months old!

More falcon. When I said my wife wanted to know su edad, she said 26. Well, su edad can mean his/her/its age or your age (formal). I would not address someone less than half my age formally—no, the bird’s age, I clarified. She laughed heartily.

Their estimate is two months.

So, language blunders aside, that’s wild. Big bird for two months old!

The falcon

A girl with a falcon has been at our local park lately. The bird was rescued when both parents were killed. It didn’t know how to fly. It’s a male, smaller than the females. I still don’t know what type it is. The names she gives me don’t correspond to anything I find in the bird book. She puts a cap over its head when she drives back to Montevideo. I asked if it always made noise – It doesn’t at night 😉

Changing waters

This is what beachgoers in Atlántida had yesterday afternoon: brown fresh water waves, a patch of salt water twenty meters in, then more brown fresh water until about 200 meters out.

This because the brown fresh water of the Rio de la Plata moves up and down the coast depending on currents. At best we get greenish ocean water, but never the real blue of further east.

Little brown waves still take a little getting used to.