YOU may find what I have to say mildly interesting, it does not fall into the same league as big cats or UFOs but is note worthy in its own right.
On Saturday, April 3, I was on Minchinhampton common about a stone’s throw from the village of Amberley when I encountered a middle aged man walking two dogs, nothing unusual in that.
But this gentleman had a parrot on his shoulder, totally unrestrained as far as I could determine, a sighting that would have been eagerly devoured by Stroud’s 19th Century chronicler Paul Hawkins Fisher.
I have walked this part of the common regularly for many years enjoying the changing seasons and odd behaviour of man and wild life but this interesting sight deserves passing on.
Who said individualism was dead?
Francis Ray
Stroud
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