So Near and Yet so Far

Day 37 - 9:19am, 6 February 2019

I take my picture on the way back from school drop off. I think the most exciting thing I am going to see is the dead pigeon up a side street on the way there. It is the first dead pigeon I have ever seen; it is lying on its back, its claws up in the air looking very much as if they are still hooked tightly around a now non-existent twig. I wonder if someone will have to pick it up or if it will simply be left for a fox to take care of.  

Having taken my first photo, I begin to switch off my phone, just as three ducks land on the water. I hastily re-awaken my phone to take another photo. They are the first examples of wildlife I can claim to have seen in the river since starting my year-long project. Of course, they are not willing to hang around for long and so even with the zoom on, it is hard to make them out. Again, I shut my phone down and am about to put it in my pocket when a train goes over the bridge. By the time I put my password in to reawaken it, switch to camera and take the photo, the train is gone.

We'll leave that first for another day.