I’ve always hated pigeons, well maybe not always. My hatred stems from one incident while walking on Gloucester Road loaded down with groceries back in my first year at Imperial. There I was wondering up the street trying to remember where the hell my halls were (my faulty sense of direction) when a pigeon at my feet, hitherto unnoticed took off and smacked me in the face with its wings. Needless to say I was pretty damn surprised and yelled out making myself quite the spectacle on that road, and of course the pigeon was gone by then, so I just ended up looking like a small, crazy, grocery shopping brown guy.

So it was with amusement tinged with more than a little sadistic pleasure that I read about a pelican that has apparently got a taste for the feathered rats, Ken Livingstone would be proud and I’m assuming the pelican voted for him in the last election. There are two videos on youtube showcasing this pigeon fancier in action, one actually showing the capture and another showing the actual swallowing. Excellently funny stuff in a bit of a perverse way, a pelican that prefers poultry to pollock, who would have thought.