The view today has started on the dark side and has only gotten darker. Initially this was down to the weather which is damp, damp and more damp. It was very grey out there. Just when the sun began to shine the view took a turn for the worse.
I was just wrapping up a conference call with my manager when my eye was taken by a flurry of movement outside. One of the neighbours cats had managed to get hold of a squirrel which was squealing frantically while struggling to get free. Needless to say I broke off from my conference call and rushed outside in the vain hope of making the cat let the squirrel loose before any lasting damage was done. Unfortunately I was too late. The cat took off to hunt another day but I had to dispatch the squirrel which was in a bad way. So that’s four squirrels that have met their ends in my garden after an encounter with the neighbours cats.
As an observation, I note that the crows sat up in the trees above this one-sided scrap were very vocal. They started their calling at the same time as the cat captured the squirrel and continued well after I had scared the cat away. I just wonder whether their calls were in outrage at the attack or if they were getting excited at the possibility of a free lunch.