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Parrots wreak havoc on church steeple
A plague of parakeets have caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to a church - after pecking away at the wooden spire. This is real, not a parrot-dy Congregation members revealed this week that the brightly-coloured vandals had started nesting in the 150-year-old spire of St John the Evangelist, Shirley, which has been blighted by hundreds of beak-sized holes. "It ruined the polly-urethane finish." Church spokesman Bernard Maguire, 67, said: "They showed up last winter, and have been pecking away ever since. We enjoyed them at first, they were quite pretty, but then we realised what they were up to and now the novelty has definitely worn off." "We'd repair the damage, but we don't have enough in the budgie to cover it." Posted by: Mike 2008-07-25 |
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