The cat that thinks it is a pigeon

When Wendy Hobbs spotted a cat up a tree in her garden a week ago, she was tempted to phone the fire brigade to get it back to earth.



But she soon realised that the tortoiseshell stray was there out of choice - and had set up home in a bird's nest.

It leaves the flowering cherry tree to beg for food at the back door then, straight after its meal, climbs back up into the branches for a well-earned rest.

"I don't know why she loves the tree," said Mrs Hobbs, 66, a retired nurse from Reepham, Norfolk. "She sits there watching the traffic. My husband and I think the nest must have been a pigeon's because it's so messy."