Segovia's fauna. In this case, the mini piggy is on the roof as one of the town's symbols, but make no mistake, after 11 days it lands in the oven as 'Cochinillo Asado', one of Segovia's enduring culinary delights. Actually not far from my Bavarian peeps' version 'Schweinsbraten'. In some countries, instead of roasting, it can be cooked in milk, it pretty much doesn't get any more unkosher....

Just one rooftop over, a rooster is houling at the moon, but wait, I think I'm mixing things up...

To me, the real symbol of Segovia should be the stork, I have never seen so many in one place in my life! On this top of a tower alone I counted about 15 permanent residents, and you see them all over Segovia, below is another pic of 'Stork Central'.

There is the occasional feline predator, but she is definitely outnumbered by the winged buddies roaming the skies. In some pictures taken at dusk I had to retouch out the many thousands of swallows, as they appeared like bugs against the light sky.

They particularly love zooming in formation through the arches of the aqueduct, as they probably have for the past 2000 years in Segovia.