09 Jun 2003

Fence-watching

As one might expect, I spend quite a bit of time watching animals, trying to work out what they're doing, why they're doing it, and—in the case of mugger ducks—how I can get them to stop doing it. Much of this happens at work, but I also watch animals in a non-professional setting, as I have for most of my life. Sometimes I can work out what is going on—at other times, I can only wrinkle my forehead in perplexity and think, "What the flippin' Nora is going on there, then?" This is about one of those occasions.

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