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Crested Pigeon escapes clutches of cat.

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Subject: Crested Pigeon escapes clutches of cat.
From: "John Layton" <>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 19:46:43 +1000

Crested Pigeons continue to  breed in shrubbery bordering our drive. Late this morning I responded to a frantic flapping of wings in the bushes just as Howitzer, the neighbour’s hound dawg, loosened off a barrage of 105mm H.E. woofs. As I came off the front porch I glimpsed a local cute-as-catnip Burmese Short-hair streaking away and saw a dishevelled adult Crested Pigeon squatting on the driveway. As I approached, it sprang into a shrub where others were fussing about like Public Service managers trying to decide where to place a new coffee machine. Also noticed a couple of handfuls of feathers wafting away on the breeze.

 

John K. Layton.

Holt.

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