Crazy bird attacks woman

A crazed wild pheasant bird regularly attacks a woman when she ventures outdoors and also attacks anyone who calls at her home  

The bird is so aggressive and has achieved such a dominant role that she has put up a poster at her home warning callers that the `bird dog rules ok!'. She also publishes regular updates on the bird's mood swings, noting when it is in a particularly `fowl' mood, as she puts it.

When she is trying to escape from the pheasant by running away from it with a yearning expression and her arms outstretched it's slightly reminiscent of the scene from the Emily Bronte novel `Wuthering Heights', when Kathy is running towards Heathcliff. 

The difference, apart from the fact that this news story isn't as good as the novel, is that she is yearning to be safely indoors.

This was a story which, as a press photographer, I covered for a Skegness local newspaper. It's a fun story, or to put it another way it satisfies our appetite for the bizarre. The photograph of the woman trying to escape from the bird isn't faked, it really did attack her like this when I was there.