I thought my pigeon curse was lifting. Then it took a darker turn | Adrian Chiles

The feathered devils have been looking at me funny all year. And just when I thought my torment might be over, I went round to Mum’s and had a terrible shock Pigeons are tormenting me, in ever weirder ways. Last year I wrote about how much I hated them when they got into a drainage channel on my roof. They’ve been looking at me funny ever since. OK, I might be imagining that, but what I didn’t imagine was the incident I also wrote about involving a peregrine falcon dropping half a dead pigeon...

By Adrian Chiles