Rorschach crow

There's been some seagull teasing and treat drop-and-catching; some turning over tubs and searching under leaves; some tearing up paper and some skimming over dogs, but on the whole nothing major to report from the park.

I have seen the Fluffies regularly and have given them favoured food.

CD was unnerved today by a model plane. I could see him looking at it. For a while he seemed as if he might ignore it, but the stress got too much. He squatted down as crows do before another crow does a dive-bomb/fly-over and then fled.

I was wondering if he thought it could be a predator, like a raptor. but what would be odd is that raptors circle and then do another circle, cutting through the first but heading in a given direction, and then a third and so on with each circle taking them gradually away. The plane, in contrast, stayed over the park. It would be not it's a bird, it's a plane, it's superman but something like, 'It's a raptor! It's an owl! It's a crazy unpredictable freak-flier!'

He had been in the tree when I arrived. Preening.

He didn't like me trying to get close.

But he did look so cool...

I read a paper about how we humans seem to think we have a 'right to sight'. That we can just invade the homes of animals and look at them. There is something very invasive... like Foucault's Panopticon.

I guess that's why I like to acknowledge the reverse: that animals watch us. I love it that the crows spot me and tell their friends. I love it that the squirrels, tits, jays, starlings, blackbirds, sparrows, dunnocks and pigeons watch me fill the feeders and go back inside. I love it that they know my habits.

But, by the same token, it would not be appropriate to expect reciprocation. I do not have a right to sight because they watch me or even because I feed them. Yet I am so glad when they allow it.