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9:01am on Sunday, 5th July, 2026:
Anecdote
My wife leaves windows open in hot weather, to support her crusade against air-conditioning.
I'm used to flies coming in and heading straight for where I'm sitting on my computer, but yesterday some kind of pigeon or dove flew in through the bathroom window. Fortunately for me, it got trapped behind the Venetian blind, so we didn't have to capture it to return it to the wild, we just had to open the window more.
No pictures, because my wife and daughter (who discovered it) wanted it out immediately. They didn't even ask me to do it, they were that keen on having it gone.
It must have been there for some time, because we kept hearing this cooing and didn't know what bird was making it. It wasn't the usual racket that pigeons make, but it sounded like one. Only after we found it did we realise it was probably a distress call.
I've replaced my toothbrush and the bar of soap that were in open containers on the windowsill. I don't want to brush my teeth or wash my face with something a pigeon has used.
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