Pigeons

Bushy tailed rats. Wait, no... That's what I said about squirrels. Rats with wings? It just doesn't sound as poetic.

Starting last summer, the pigeons have taken more and more interest in my back porch. Last week, my neighbors and I did our annual porch cleaning and washed off all the bird droppings. The very next day, I walked out onto the porch... and right into it. It looked like a pigeon had exploded in the night, covering the porch in feathers and droppings.

I immediately got on the internet to place an order for bird spikes from a company called deterapigeon ("the pigeon deterrent people (TM)"). They arrived from England yesterday (fancy imported bird spikes), and I put them up today.

One of the best things about the product was the instruction CD that came in the box. Not that it contained any profound revelations -- the spikes were easy to install. But there was one scene where the guy doing the demonstration was installing them on a ledge, and you could hardly hear him over the squawking of the birds. It was downright Hitchcockian... Well, maybe with better production values it would have been. Anyway, I was entertained.