I THINK FLAPPER the wood pigeon is stalking me. When I left the house early this afternoon, there he was right by the front door. Needless to say he flapped off with great commotion once he saw me.
Then, when I returned just now I had just passed the neighbour's bins and ~ huge a huge flappery occurred again. I nearly had a heart attack. But it was just Flapper, who had been pecking in the lawn taking flight to his second favourite TV aerial. (He prefers the luxury one that looks like a grill-rack on my side of the road.)Up on the aerial he took to cooing incessantly. I don't know who he is cooing to, or what he is trying to say, but he appears to have an urgent message for somebody...
At first I wasn't sure whether there aren't in fact TWO pigeons on my street, but I'm pretty certain now that Flapper is one person. Perhaps he is cooing for a significant other. The only other wood pigeons I know peck around in the bushes by the public library. Someone should tell them Flapper is here before somebody gets fed up with his mindless cooing and shoots the bird-brain!
