Overhung by a cliff face studded with giant stalactites, the water is illuminated by a narrow strip of sunlight overhead.
The specialist platform for the peregrine adults, set up by the Hawk and Owl Trust on the cathedral's spire in 2011, simulates a cliff face at 75m (246ft) high.
The monk was a caretaker at the Tiger's Lair, a sacred cave shrine perched high on the cliff-face of a granite mountain.
After about half an hour's hard climb - though it's the donkeys that have done all the work - we reach the Deir, a truly magnificent facade carved massively into a coffee-coloured cliff face.
An overnight train from Delhi and a daylong Jeep ride along crumbling cliff-face roads had brought me to Sankri, a hillside outpost on the southern rim of Govind Pashu Vihar National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary.
On the hillside leading down to the cliff face, a swathe of green grass forms a natural amphitheatre.
It concluded water seeping from the cliff face had most likely leaked from a pipe from the nearby McCain factory.
Politicians face a eleventh-hour effort to fix the fiscal cliff, a series of tax increases and spending cuts that could push the U.S. into a recession next year.
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It is highly unlikely that the steps that will be taken prior to December 31, 2012 if any to avoid the cliff will be a total resolution of the many questions that we face when it comes to tax policy and how it impacts on the long-term solution to our debt problem.
In January, Mr Cameron gave the first hint of a government rethink when he warned of the "cliff edge" some families might face with the removal of child benefit for all top-rate taxpayers.
As I climb off the boat, a pair of long-tailed macaques, whom I assume are on the payroll, rove the cliff face, sampling white flowers.
You see one single flower nodding on a cliff side far across the canyon, or a huge knot in a redwood tree looking like Zeus' face, or some of God's little crazy creations goofing around in creek pools (zigzag bugs), or a sign on a lonely fence saying 'M.
Our focus right now is working to see if we can reach an agreement that helps us avoid the so-called fiscal cliff and also achieves a broader deal, which would address this longer-term deficit challenge that we face in a way that helps the economy grow and create jobs.
Now the problem comes, of course, because the closer you are to pension age, the more you hit the sort of cliff face, as it were, and somebody at 59 or in their early sixties with a 65 year old pension age is literally in no really different position than a pensioner.
Crude oil is back on the rise in the face of slowing demand, a possible breakup of the European Union, and the threat of the fiscal cliff sending the U.S. back into recession.
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