Rancho Texas, Lanzarote

Flying vulture at Rancho Texas in Lanzarote, it passed so close to me I could feel the wind from its wings.

CARP ATTACK

The Hunt

Yesterday while I was stood gazing aimlessly out of the front windows, it being a far quieter day than we had been expecting, I saw a crow trying to kill a baby squirrel. The squirrel had come out of its tree and was running and jumping as fast as it could, the crow flew low behind banking and swerving to try and cut off the squirrel's escape route.

I was cheering for the crow, Adam couldn't see the fun as he hasn't sorted himself any glasses out yet, and Sadie just kept saying "Oh no" every time time I indicated that the squirrel's end was nigh. The entertainment was curtailed though when the squirrel made the safety of a tree trunk, the crow took a last look at its retreating prey and then began to poke around in the grass in a nonchalent fashion as if to indicate that worms were what he had been after all along.

The Imagist Credo Summarized

Image via Wikipedia1) Use the language of common speech, but use it exactly

2) Create new rhythms for new moods

3) Allow complete freedom in a subject

4) Present an image, but avoid vagueness

5) Produce poetry that is hard and clear

6) Concentration is the essence of poetry

Picture - Image of a flea from Robert Hooke's Micrographia (1665), a Royal Society work. The Zementa Content widget seems to have suffered a brain freeze for this article, still, it's a nice drawing of a bug.

Pheasant In The Gorse

A colourful male pheasant by the road side at Ling Park.

Thrush On A Wall

Thrush on a dry stone wall at Langbar.

Deer in Coppy Wood

Sorry for the shoddy picture, I could kick myself.  I always take my proper camera when I set off for a walk, except this morning I forgot, and there just inside Coppy Wood a deer stood still long enough for me to take its picture on my phone camera.  Tomorrow I'll take my Canon and see nothing of interest of course.