France in Focus

Just been watching Charlie, the cat who adopted us, playing with a mouse on the lawn whilst a Jay continually hopped up to him, pecked his bum & retreated.
This has been going on for a good half hour now with no sign of a stale mate as Charlie dosen't seem at all bothered.
I tried to get a photo but each time I got close the Jay flew off to an adjacent tree & recommenced his bum assault the moment I went away.

Looks like Charlie has just lost interest so dunno what happened to the mouse or why the jay was so persistant. Thought it might make supper maybe?

And Charlie didn't take out the Jay?? Could there be a fluff of feathers somewhere??

I rather suspect as a carrion bird, the jay is hoping to get a taste of that mouse - unless of course it is just a cat toy.

Many years ago, we were walking around Vienna zoo in the early morning. The monkeys (no idea what flavour - I'm not Richard Attenborough) had a large compound with a hill and trees in it and they had been fed recently. A group of magpies pestered the monkeys with bum nips making them change position repeatedly - the magpies then stealing crumbs or larger pieces of monkey scram.

Better than telly!