So well done, Courier, over the front-page headline, "'Dive-bomb' pigeons face chop", (April 5). You have managed to do it again.
Colin Stout's silly, dramatic remarks about dive-bombing pigeons brought visions of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds to mind.
Most birds are wary of mankind. Pigeons plod about picking up tiny specks of food the council brush can miss and in turn leaves little for our friend the rat, who sneaks about in the dead of night when we are tucked up in bed.
The council's recent brainwave of spiking window ledges in the arcade was neither humane or pleasant to see.
Trying to eat a sandwich while watching pigeons impaled on spikes or fluttering about, causing feathers to fall, was worse than leaving them alone in the first place.
This bird is considered a pest by some and a pleasure to others. In Colin Stout's case they are a phobia blown out of proportion, given the few birds we have in our town centre.
I suggest we leave them alone and Colin Stout gets some help with his outlandish phobia.
(Mrs) Heather Terry