Does anyone know why pigeons in the South Cheshire have suddenly become suicidal? I managed to drive over one this morning and then this evening 3 of them flew into my car windscreen or side windows in 3 separate incidents while driving to and from the gym. For the record I was driving my wife’s Mini Clubman both times which I don’t normally do so perhaps they were expressing their displeasure at my being behind the wheel rather than her. That’s not all. At the weekend a really fat pigeon was sat on the wall of my brick barbecue in the back garden and then for no apparent reason just fell off onto the ground whereupon it stumbled around for a bit in a daze and then flew off in a haphazard way towards the woods at the back.

Theories please.