Stop that Pigeon NOW!

OK, so there’s a bit of a rambling story that goes with this odd image I just have to share… 🙂

A couple of weeks ago I was alone in the house when I heard a loud thud, as if someone has whumped a big soggy balled-up chamois leather against a window or something. Puzzled, I checked around inside the house and saw nothing untoward. So I went outside and walked all around the outside of house, but all our windows remained intact and damage-free.

However the very next morning, with the sunlight shining at a different angle, we noticed the faintest traces of what looked like the outline of a bird on one of the kitchen windows. We realised that the sound I had heard must have been a bird flying into the window, but for the life if us we couldn’t work out which bird might be that shape and size, and it did seem a bit implausible but we could think of no other explanation at the time?

Roll forward to yesterday, when my husband, who happened to be looking out the kitchen window, saw a pigeon face-plant into the conservatory window with the very same whump noise I’d heard previously! The poor pigeon shook itself off, quickly recovered its composure then flew away apparently undamaged (presumably apart from its pride!). This time in the early evening light we were able to capture a very clear picture of a very similar outline of the bird on the window, wing-tip to wing-tip.

I suppose it shows just how much natural grease must be in bird feathers to make such a clear bird-shaped imprint on the glass, and I have to admit I couldn’t help but laugh at the sight – it reminded me so much of a cartoon we used to watch as kids, a spin-off from the Wacky Races where Dick Dastardly (and Muttley) spend all their time in flying machines trying to stop the pigeon… And now I have the fun theme tune stuck in my head…

Mind you, with Dastardly and Muttley at least the poor pigeon always gets through it all unscathed! 🙂

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Evening