A mad start to August waiting in stopped traffic.

Many don't like to sit and wait for a 20-minute stop, but I am different.

To all of my readers and supporters, and also everyone on Hive, we wish you a great new month!

I will show you below what I do in a traffic jam, due to either roadworks or an accident up ahead. It is an opportunity for me to get some shots in with the camera. Not shots that you will expect, neither did I expect it, but mother nature was on my side, as something unexpected appeared to make my day. You know that feeling that one gets, when an intention to do something gets turned into something better.

With the wife behind the car's steering, I opened the passenger door to step out of the car camera in hand. Not that I immediately pointed the camera to the sky, in case somebody in the queue would think that I wanted to take photos of them. I have been accused before by somebody of taking photos of their garden, while I was taking photos of the low rising moon. But that's a story for another day. In the meantime, come and see what I have to share today.

Maybe a clearer view of the first photo.

My idea was to take some landscape shots of the surroundings.

But then a surprise appeared. A Pied Crow was fighting with two Harrier Hawks that crossed into the crow's territory.

We see many of these fights and I have even posted a Harrier Hawk with its left eye missing.

The two hawks below were circling, and they seemed to invite the crow down, so that they can both strike the crow. Peep! The wife climbed onto the car's hooter, and it was time to go.

Thankfully, it did not take us long to get out of the traffic back home.

I don't know what it is with people, as it seems that a new urgency has stepped in, culminating in a headlong rush everywhere. People skip red traffic lights, and a few times already we have had narrow escapes. You think the person would stop at the red light, but then they just rush right through it. It is the same everywhere that we encounter this demented rush, as if the destiny would run away.

Following distance are also being ignored and at times a car would come so close to us on the road, that I would like to pull them off and ask them if they want to put their car into our glove compartment to join us on the trip. In case a person has to stop for anything urgently, such as a pedestrian, or a dog, the car behind would have no choice but to bang into us. I have created the habit of snapping my foot briefly on the brake pedal and glaring into the rearview mirror. Some listen, but others just continue, even flashing lights at us to move faster.
It is risky nowadays to travel on the roads, and we are not even in a big city.
Such is life.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.

Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.

Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.

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