Although I could prattle on endlessly concerning the pigeon menace around Birkenhead shopping centre, I have to at least concede that our verminous friends are a natural pest unlike that other hindrance greeting the unwary in a crowded precinct.

I'm talking umbrellas.

The complete disregard for others shown by these lily-livered la-di-da's with their pathetic mantraps will almost certainly result one day in somebody losing an eye.

I bet even the pigeons themselves get cheesed off at times!

Charles Exford, Oxton.