Got in from work this afternoon and slumped down watching crap on Youtube, as you do. I then heard a strange noise coming from my bedroom at the back of the flat and when I opened the door, there was a pigeon flying around the room. That's weird, I thought. So I went to get the key to open the window sufficiently to let it out, making sure to shut the door on my way out. I then heard a noise coming from the spare bedroom next to it and when I opened that door, there was another pigeon flying round that room. WTF I thought and had to open the other door to check that I wasn't hallucinating. But I wasn't - there was indeed a pigeon in each room. The windows had been open, but not more than a few inches, so they must have thought that my rooms looked like a great place to move into (my flat is on the 3rd floor).
Anyway I managed to open the windows and persuade them to leave, hopefully without any damage (apart from psychological) but obviously both my bedrooms are now covered in pigeon shit. Also my LDC mic was sitting on it's stand in my bedroom, so of course it landed on that, breaking the suspension mount. Not sure I want to sing into that without it being disinfected. Also my iPad was sitting beside my bed and is totally covered in shit, so thanks for that, pigeons.
So I just felt I had to share this experience as it's one of the strangest things that's happened to me. Also if anyone has any advice on how to clean up pigeon shit, I am all ears...
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Then there was that time a pigeon hit my windscreen at 70mph, slid across it and got sucked in to the passenger side window, which was open about 3cm. One wing was inside, with the rest of it hanging outside. As I was preparing myself for the entire thing to be sucked into the car, the body was ripped off, leaving a twitching and bloody wing stuck in the window. Somehow, after a few seconds it went the way of the rest of the body rather than land on my lap, but in doing so, it sent a puff of feathers flying backwards through the car, cartoon style. I was picking feathers out of the back seat and boot for weeks.
Little bugger was a confident sod.. I could almost hear him saying 'feck off I'm shopping here!'
That's a pretty bizarre pigeon experience!
I rush in to try and grab it, which freaks all of them out, and the bird takes flight. So I'm chasing the bloody thing round the house, and it ends up upstairs in the office. Shut the door, trying to catch it - and the git then flies and lands on my shoulder and just stays there for a minute. proper pirate style.
Anyway, eventually I managed to catch it and let it fly out the window, but was one of those 'WTF?' moments....
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
There's me upstairs thinking she's sewing in the living room. Imagine my surprise when I went to talk with her and found that rather than her sewing, was a fucking pigeon flying round and round in circles in the middle of the room. It got in through a relatively small opening in the window and couldn't get itself out again and must've been there for around 15 minutes.
I opened the windows fully and held up a blanket and walked towards it. It left pretty quickly and to my great surprise left far more feathers behind than shit.
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She can catch birds in flight when they are low enough as her ground speed is quicker than they can fly.
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