They might have stood a little closer together.
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The Anxious Gardener 
Great photo! You must have been quick whipping out your camera. We have lots of holes here but have never (in 2 1/2 years) seen a vole!
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I was photographing birds when I saw the vole and then the dunnock appeared too. I have a plague of voles at the moment. They do quite a lot of damage – still, keeps the owls happy. D
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Brilliant moment! I love this photo. I captured something much less glamorous myself at the weekend – blackbird and squirrel. They didn’t seem very interested in each other, but both had their eye on a third indeterminable event happening a few metres away. Sadly slightly too fuzzy to post. Yours is lovely and crisp.
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I have an awful lot of slightly too fuzzy to post photos, Joanna. Nice when a decent one comes along. I’ve seen squirrels chase away birds from beneath the bird feeders. D
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What is a Dunnock?
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Hi James, fairly common garden bird here in the UK – it’s the main host for cuckoos, poor thing. Fairly drab plumage but a pretty little thing, I think. Latin name – Prunella modularis. D
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Ha!
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Succint!
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You might not have got “the look” from the dunnock if they were closer together. Amelia
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True enough. If I had the skills I might have spliced the shot to make them appear closer together. But then that would have been cheating. D
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I’ve read that species that have nothing to do with each other (not hunter and hunted) aren’t aware of each other. I find this hard to believe, Did you notice if they were wary or inquisitive? The Dunnock looks as if it is looking at the vole to me.
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The dunnock had just been chased off from below the bird feeders by a robin and yes, was keeping an eye on the vole.
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Very inconsiderate!
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I know. They took no stage direction whatsoever. D
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