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About every month or so a hawk is brought in to Parliament to kill a couple of pigeons and scare away the rest. Last week we saw it flying around, so I thought I'd go up on the roof to get a better view. Almost too much better, as it turned out; I opened the roof door and walked straight into the falconer. My sudden appearance startled the bird now perched on his wrist, and in its ensuing flurry it clocked me across the face with its wing.

Occasionally in your life you find yourself in situations you could never have envisaged even a couple of years before, let alone have thought might happen when you were younger. Under that category I can safely file the experience of being smacked in the face by a Harris' hawk on the roof of the House of Lords.

Date: 2006-05-03 03:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] webofevil.livejournal.com
I'm delighted to hear it. Is there a prize?

Date: 2006-05-03 03:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chiller.livejournal.com
Um.. YES! It's er ... um ... I'll buy you a pint when I see you! Does that work?

Date: 2006-05-03 03:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] webofevil.livejournal.com
I don't know what to say... *sniff* I'd like to thank... everyone who made this possible...

Date: 2006-05-03 03:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chiller.livejournal.com
No hawks were harmed in the making of this journal entry, right?

Date: 2006-05-03 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] webofevil.livejournal.com
... They could be.

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