Lunch in Zimikon - all about eating and being eaten

As there are many animal lovers on hikr, I decided to post the following pictures although they have not been taken on an excursion and some are even out of focus.

I get to work by bycicle. The village's name is Zimikon, a part of Volketswil in the canton of Zurich.
Now, as the days get warmer, I enjoy staying outside during my lunch break.
On 12th April I took my bike, went to a nearby sandwich bar and bought a piadina with tomatoes and mozzarella. I rode to and fro the village to find a nice place where I could eat my lunch.

Not far away, I saw a lot of big birds circling in the sky an I wondered what they were doing. I rode up to Sandbühl, a small hill in Zimikon. A farmer was plowing up a fild followed by storks (Ciconia ciconia) looking for - some food, I guessed.

I took out my camera, holding my piadina in the other hand as I had only 20 minutes left befor I had to return to work.
Hiding behind a bush I switched my camera's adjustment on "sport's mode" and shot as many pictures as possible, while eating my sandwich.
Multitasking.

Beside of the storks there were red kites (Rotmilane, Milvus milvus), black kites (Schwarzmilane, Milvus migrans) and buzzards (Mäusebussarde, Buteo buteo), some in the air, some walking on the freshly plowed ground. I saw that there was some action going on among the birds. Suddenly a stork was attacked by a red kite.
I couldn't see exacly what it was about, only flapping wings and jumping birds. I just continued pressing the release botton, still eating my piadina.

Later, when I had returned to work, I had a look at the pictures on the small camera screen. I was supprised to see a stork holding a mouse - a vole (Wühlmaus, Arvicolina), to be correct - in its  beak. The red kite tried to steal it. That's why the stork was hopping away, flapping it's wings.
It isn't clear who got the mouse at the end, but in view of the storks' swollen crops, they didn't have to starve.

So, what did I see?
A farmer plowing up the ground to grow wheat for my bread
(and to earn money for his own bread),
myself eating a sandwich made from cereals,
storks hunting mice,
a red kite attacking a stork
and a mouse not only loosing it's home but loosing it's life.

Cruel world!
But interesting half an hour for me.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight for my piadina!

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