h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's Sunday evening, it's raining outside, and I really do have nothing better to do than upload the sorry contents of my mushy brain onto the guide.

Does anybody out there know anything about bird psychology?

I had this baby bird (dove I think) in my back garden yesterday. It just sat on the grass for hours. It knew how to fly, because it flew up into a tree, but it came straight back down again. At one point it even jumped onto a lounger and made itself comfortable in one of the dips where the buttons are. It's gone now.