The rains are here at last.Humidity levels were at an all time high.Rain brought relief in spurts.
Yesterday I saw two of nature's correction techniques or Darwins theory of survival of the fittest.
The first incident occured at about twelve noon.A medium sized squirrel fell off an Ashoka tree on one of the large palm leaves of the palm tree beneath the tall Ashoka tree.A crow was sitting close by and was about to make a move when a cat pounced on the squirrel and carried it off in its mouth.
All this occured within a few seconds.At that point it seemed that the crow had actually managed to drop the squirrel from the tree but ultimately the cat got there first.Later on the cat was roaming around with the squirrel in its mouth searching for a place to eat it without disturbance from the crow.
The second incident also involved crows-- lots of them.Suddenly there were about 10-15 of them in the garden eating something.I thought may be some kind of worm that the rains had brought with them.I could not see what it was so I just went about my work and forgot all about it.Next morning as I was sitting at the window having tea I saw first, one crow descend on the ground and was followed by 10-12 of them .They were all eating a swarm of insects [winged ones that we see in the house during the rains]which were flying around.The crows were quick and would catch them in mid air.
This is the first time that I have seen such an occurence.What does it signify?
