High Wire Act

As reported on 25 February, every morning I put a handful of unshelled peanuts on the bird feeder. Within a few minutes they are all gone, the jackdaws swoop in, grab one at a time and fly off with them. They tend to either go to the neighbour's chimney, or the top of the telegraph pole shown here. This bird though shelled its peanut while balanced on the cables going to the pole.

It was good luck that I stopped to take a few photographs this morning, because by lunchtime, the cloudy blue sky had been replaced by a grey pall, and then the rain started. By going home time, it was pouring down and the light had gone.

It's hardly more than two weeks since the earthquake in New Zealand, and this morning news was just breaking of the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Meanwhile civil war rages in Libya. Sometimes we are so preoccupied with our own small struggles in life, that we forget how insignificant they are compared to the events and turmoil that others endure daily around the world.