I hope everyone remembered to put their clocks back last night!
It was the first day of the hunting season but unusually we were out before the guns started but to be on the safe side it was a trip to the beach. The fishermen were down there and also a couple of brave souls swimming.
The hunters were out in force but keeping their distance until later in the afternoon, then the shots were so close (tooo close!) In fact I think they were next to Lena’s house. When will they ever learn the rules? Mal also watched a kestrel flying and made sure they didn’t take a pop at that or Mal would have run after them. They didn’t. The kestrels nest very near to us and we love watching them.
The hunting will continue every Sunday until 26th December, with a total of 10 days set aside, including 18th November which is the third day of Kurban Bayram, The Feast of Sacrifice. A hunter will be able to bag no more than one hare, five partridges or black francolins and eight wood pigeons in a day. The total number of game animals that can be shot has been determined as 30. As it said in Cyprus Today “If all hunters reached this limit, that would mean that 600,000 game animals will be shot in the 10 days, bringing the potential number of prizes to 6 million”. Let’s hope they are not good shots.
In the afternoon we sat out in the sun and played cards, nice to sit in the sun on the last day of October! The overnight temperature is dropping overnight and so the sheet has today been replaced by the summer duvet.
Thought for the Day – “There is nothing in which birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before” – Robert Wilson Lynd