Evidence of an action

The action here, is death, or perhaps the aftermath of an attack of Cat on Blackbird.

As I approached this exercise I remember the same morning discovering this poor thing dead in the garden and it immediately occurred that the scene is clear evidence of action.

The scattering of feathers represent the struggle, the wound to the chest the damage and the closed eye and raised feet, the end. Later that day I noticed her mate, a male jet black bird hanging around the garden probably looking for his partner. These tiny struggles have an impact and the added thought that this death was unnecessary makes us reflect on similar needless losses in our own, human world.

f5.6, ISO 100, 1/10sec at 50mm