Bird Life

At the OCCP today they had a briefing about the crowd and riot control plans of the provincial ANSF. Their plans were again quite good, actually, but of course I had to add my views on a few points (such as the use of reserves, support and rules of engagement). From the briefing we followed the NDS representative to the northern parts of Aybak, where we had a look at the site of a development project that he had suggested to us. It concerns building water pipes from a well to over 300 households, all in all about 3000 metres. We took pictures a talked to the locals. On the way back a radio antenna on Lion got caught in a tree and broke.


The OCCP operations center was fully manned during the briefing. (That's my haircut in the bottom of the picture.)


The pump house of the well, which by the way is 400 metres deep! And of course the children turned up again out of nowhere to ogle at our equipment.

In the afternoon all of the PO staff except for myself went to Camp Marmal to give the guys returning from their leave a lift home. I tried to work, but the swedes and the local employees kept bothering me. There were also some messages coming in, and as the only Finn and PO personnel, it was my job to answer them. It was already dark when the transport returned. Now that T is here we'll get some proper food again, instead of combos and salad.

There are a lot of wild birds here. Many different kinds of doves can be seen every day, as well as sparrows, but they were fewer when it was really hot. I've also seen birds of pray on at least three occasions. But every day I see birds that I can't identify, and sometimes I'm quite sure that I haven't ever seen that kind of birds before. It's too bad that I know so little about them. Not that I would like to know more, but I could describe what I've seen much better. I'm sure that some of my cousins could do better.


It's no wonder that the birds come here in November, when the roses blossom in the police station's yard.