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Message: <blockquote data-quote="colonelboris" data-source="post: 1622999" data-attributes="member: 40117">I've been neglecting this thread a little as I've been busier than I have been for a long time (and I will get round to answering PMs soon - honest!), but we had a little episode this morning.While cooking a fried breakfast for the Mrs on account of our anniversary, there was an ominously loud thump on the balcony window.  Mrs Boris rolled back the blinds and had a look and there was a large pigeon lying stunned on the balcony, eyes closed and gasping.  The reasons for its flight into the window were sitting on the balcony rail - five Noisy Miners and a Grey Butcherbird, who then promptly attacked the prone form of the pigeon, which turned out to be a Brown Cuckoo-dove (and incidentally, a lifer).  The sight of two small children hopping up-and-down behind the window was enough to drive the assembled attack squad back onto the balcony rail, so I did the only reasonable thing.  I got the camera...Luckily, the blighter had hit the flyscreen first, thus cushioning it against the full impact against the window, but it was enough to force the screen off of its rails.  After about ten minutes, it had recovered enough to attempt take-off and after pre-flight checks, it promptly flew back into the flyscreen.  After this, a successful departure ensued and it was then chased back over the trees by the Miners and the Butcherbird.Normally, the moral of the story would be to put a sticker of a raptor on the window, but seeing as the blinds were closed, thus appearing as a solid wall from outside and the flyscreen also adds to this, it must just have been a rather desperate and daft pigeon...</blockquote>

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