The Wonderful World of Nature

I was out on the balcony at work yesterday, on my coffee break, supporting my various dependencies. We have quite a nice selection of visiting birds, drawn by sandwich corners and the occasional bit of bird seed someone remembers to bring in. Anyway, so I'm sitting out there reading and a pigeon starts to sidle towards me, despite the clearly non-edible nature of my handbag but then pigeons aren't known for their acuity. I looked over at the pigeon and when it clocked me looking it stopped, regarding me suspiciously, so far so normal. I went back to reading and the next time I looked over the creature is very close, only six inches or so from the side of my chair. This time when it saw me, and this is God's truth, the thing turned it's back on me and pointedly looked at the ceiling. I went back to my book but continued watching it from the corner of my eye, it cast a leery glance over it's shoulder to check I wasn't watching and then continued it nonchalant progress towards to my bag. If it had had the physiological equipment to whistle it would have being doing so. I look back and it does it again, I swear to God, it turned it's back and looked at the ceiling occasionally casting casual little glances back to see if I'ld stopped. You would think this sort of behaviour would be eradicated through natural selection, but maybe cats are responding to socially cutting behaviour these days.

In other news, RTE ran this last week: Squirrel goes nuts in Germany, injures three. "An overly aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in the southern German town of Passau before it was taken down by a 72-year-old man." On it's bloody rampage, the squirrel attacked an elderly woman and a construction worker who fortunately had a measuring pole to hand with which he managed to fight the vicious animal off. Experts are unable to reach a consensus as to what may have caused the squirrel to go postal.