Hungry Birds

"You got a permit for that camera mate?"

Damn, they're a hungry bunch up at the Dam. These folk managed to get themselves well and truly marooned on a picnic bench when they brought out their pokes of pan bread. They were pounced on by dozens of ravenous swans and mallards, and even the odd goose or two, as soon as the smell of bread hit the air. I think one of the wee boys got a nip from an over enthusiastic swan and so they beat a retreat to the table top here, only for the wildlife to pull off a feathery flanking manoeuvre and trap them.

I'm sure the birds wouldn't have done any real harm, but the poor wee lad that had been nipped looked absolutely terrified by this point, so I risked an almost definite multiple-fractured arm and a possible goosing by forming a solo human shield to help them out of their predicament.

Good deed done for the day.