While West Ham United's players are away either on holiday or preparing for the FIFA World Cup, Flossey the Harris Hawk is still putting in hours of hard work at the Boleyn Ground.
Flossey and her handler Mick Fisher from Essex-based Nature's Way Pest Control visit the stadium twice a week in order to keep pigeons and other unwanted birds out.
The ten-year-old bird of prey has been visiting the Boleyn Ground for the past five years and has built up a reputation for defending her territory akin to Hammer of the Year Scott Parker.
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"Flossey is really meant as a deterrent to keep the pigeons out," Fisher told WHUTV. "If she can catch them, she'll have them, but that's very rare. She is a bit too slow for catching them, but you don't want her catching them really, because they do make a mess.
"I've been coming here for about five years and doing the job for ten years. The idea is that where birds are territorial, if they see her coming in regularly, they think she has moved in here. There is also a wild kestrel living here, too.
"We come in for a couple of hours twice a week and Flossey will fly around and make her presence felt.
"A lot of clubs use us to keep pigeons out of their stadiums. We also do Arsenal, Reading, Charlton Athletic, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Birmingham City, so we go up as far as there."