Animals on the pitch

WAITING GAME: Arnaud di Pasquale of France waits as a pigeon holds up play at Wimbledon's during his match against Britain's Tim Henman.

OUT OF THE SADDLE: A horse runs in fron of Caisse d'Epargne's team rider David Garcia Lopez (right) of Spain and Volksbank's team rider Gerrit Glomser of Austria during the sixth stage of the Tour de Suisse cycling race in Crans-Montana.

DON'T GIVE HOOT: An owl interrupts the Euro 2008 Group A qualifying football match between Finland and Belgium, in Helsinki.

NO STUMP HERE: Australian umpire Darrel Harper sidesteps a stray dog during the second test between New Zealand and Sri Lanka in Kandy.

DUCKS IN A ROW: A duck and her ducklings walk onto a court at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London.

CALLING THE SHOTS: Catania goal keeper Armando Pantanelli (left) looks at a dog on the pitch during the Italian Serie A football match against Palermo in Catania.

A BIRD IN THE HAND: A ball-girl chases away a pigeon which landed during a match between Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka and Croatia's Mario Ancic at the Wimbledon tennis championships.

A BIRD IN THE HAND: A boy tries to catch a bird on the field during Sevilla's UEFA Cup semifinal second leg football match against Schalke 04 at Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan stadium in Seville, Spain.

I'M CLEAR: A squirrel runs off the pitch as Villarreal's Diego Forlan crosses the ball during the Champions League first leg semifinal football match against Arsenal at Highbury in London.

NUTS?: A squirrel runs past Angel Cabrera's ball on the 12th green during the second round of the 90th PGA Championship golf tournament at the Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Michigan.

HIT FOR SIX: South Africa's AB de Villiers watches as a pigeon flies off losing feathers after being hit by a cricket ball during the ICC World Twenty20 cricket group match against Scotland at The Oval in London.

BUDGIE SMUGGLER: Espanyol's Shunsuke Nakamura watches a bird fly during the match against Liverpool as part of the inauguration of Espanyol's new Cornella-El Prat stadium near Barcelona.

DEER ME: A wild deer runs through a sand trap at Priddis Greens during the Pro-Am at the Canadian Women's Golf Open in Priddis near Calgary.

CHOO'S SHOO: Cleveland Indians right fielder Shin-soo Choo is surrounded by gulls at the fifth inning of their MLB American League baseball game against New York Yankees in Cleveland, Ohio.

BIRDIE DOG: Philip Golding of England is approached by a stray dog as he studies a putt on the 7th green during the second round of the Lancome Trophy at Saint Nom La Breteche.

OUT FOR A PIGEON?: India's Sachin Tendulkar and Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene walk from the field with an injured pigeon that was struck by the ball during the Natwest triangular Series match at the Oval in London.

PESKY PIGEON: New York Yankees third baseman Alex Arias chases away a pesky pigeon that chose to settle on the infield grass in the second inning of the Yankees game with the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York.

SWOTTED: Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova stands next to a moth that she tried to remove from the court during her match against Petra Cetkovska of the Czech Republic at the Indian Wells WTA tennis tournament in California.

DOG GONE: An official attempts to catch a dog that disrupted play in the opening game of the 2009 IPL Twenty20 cricket tournament between the Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings in Cape Town.

YOU'RE OUT: Umpire Krishna Hariharan orders a dog that disrupted play off the pitch in the opening game of the 2009 IPL Twenty20 cricket match between the Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings in Cape Town.

I'M A TIGER: Obilic Belgrade's mascot, a baby tiger, parades on the pitch during the warm-up before the start of the European Cup 2nd leg qualifying match with[Bayern Munich in Belgrade.

FENCE SITTER: A cat sits on the advertising board during the UEFA Cup final football match between Werder Bremen and Shakthar Donetsk at Sukru Saracoglu stadium in Istanbul.

STORKER: A Marabou stork walks on the football pitch and briefly interrupts the Kenya versus Morocco World Cup qualifier match in Nairobi, Kenya.