There’s only one way to get rid of a bully bird

I HAD a special cage built because I like the little birds. The cage stopped the crows eating everything.

Now I have a thrush with a glorious speckled chest but it looks as though it swallowed a small football. It is fat and also a bully. It just sits there as though it was in charge of everything and won’t allow any of the small birds near the lovely food in the cage.

I get angry as it is there from the time I walk into my little office until I can’t see the garden any more. I shouted at it every 10 minutes or so and slammed the window. It flew off but was soon back. Realising my anger was getting me nowhere except, perhaps, a compulsory restraining order and a broken window, I asked a wise friend for help. She lives in the hills above Avoca and used to work in psychiatry. She had the answer immediately.