Today's blog will most likely not seem to you as beautiful as the previous one - obviously - because the garbage will be in the focus, lol. It goes for 'Show me a photo (of a bird)' contest, round #165. Week's topic was 'Birds and trash-bin'. (And it was me, who suggested said topic!) In a broader sense, it is not precisely about the garbage or trash-bin, but about the birds interacting with human waste resources and foraging off it.
Quite recently I stumbled upon a few nice cases that was possible to capture, so here we go. Notice to the reader: I'm not sure if my pictures will be more beautiful than others... but my trash definitely will be the biggest, I guarantee that, lol).
Exploring the yards at Vassilievsky Ostrov district few weeks ago, I stumbled upon this gigantic waste, painted in bright, life-affirming shade of Neapolitan blue...
At the moment me, and a double team of a crow and seagull, were the only visitors.
Each of the birdies occupied half of the waste - staked out a bid to study the useful depths of container of her choice. When one of them is unlucky and "gets the center part of a donut" (i.e. nothing), and her rival, on the contrary, has something big, fragrant and tasty - a conflict with a fight or at least loud claims and curses - is very possible, even inevitable. But not this time; the pair seemed to be happy with what heaven sent them.
Seagull. Cutie!!! (but I cant say: little cutie).
As I took steps towards the seagull (to make a better close-up shots), the seagull moved away keeping the distance all the same... and very soon flew off.
Seagull - close up (cropped part of an image).
The crow, on the opposite, was not in a hurry to leave, and you will see why. She discovered something delicious and preferred not to part with it. The crow was confident in her ability to escape from me at any threating moment ... in case of more tangible threat than a large black camera in my hands.
(Cropped part of the image above).
Look how it stays frosty! Her pose in this capture, with head backwards and her eyes strictly on me... and the legs maintain a precarious balance, clinging to a thin and uncomfortable sheet of metal. You already understood how much I liked watching this frame in full details :) Crows are very intelligent and observant creatures. Living in the city, they long ago realized that it is human nature not to eat all of their food, and also where people throw it away in large quantities. 😁 Thus, the crows have their eye on all the trash cans, they control the territory. When I walk around the city and see a pile of garbage, some torn remains of plastic and paper bags, KFC boxes, etc - scattered at arm's length from numerous trash cans - I understand that this is not the fault of lazy people who threw out their garbage before reaching the urns; No. They did their job and sent the garbage at correct direction, but after that... crows (not sparrows or pigeons, no, this is work for real bandits, not these fussy beggars) took over the examination and disposal of garbage. Therefore, the garbage is forced to end up back on the ground...
Ok, let's look at the trophies.
This plastic container had some milk oat porridge! I love this porridge, but not sure exactly about the crows and their preferences... I may guess in this certain case the key fact is the menu variety ... such a dish is rarely being served them, what makes it doubly valuable and tasty.
Look at her face impression, it looks like she savors oatmeal and prolongs the pleasure, isnt she? (or, perhaps I might just imagined it to myself). Anyway, hope you enjoyed this little visual story, and got more acquainted with how the wastes of my city looks like.
