Low flying birds

[Mom]

Just a timely reminder guys. At this time of the year a lot of birds are struggling to find enough to eat. They become slow at reacting to danger and take longer to get up to speed when they take off.

This is the time of the year that birds will fly out of the rapu on the roadside and take a low trajectory while getting up airspeed. Be prepared for low flying birds to cross your path. I had a pheasant on the weekend, came out low and stayed low. Small duck (boom tish) from me meant it got away, and I did not wear it.

Just be aware is all.

[Indiana_Jones]

you fool, there was a great chance to get dinner on the way home!

-Indy

[FJRider]

I hit a Hawk once ... it took out my mirror ...

It didn't survive ... (the Hawk I mean)

[Mom]

I hit a Hawk once ... it took out my mirror ...

It didn't survive ... (the Hawk I mean)

I seem to strike at east one a season, specially this time of the year. Pukeko are scarey shit when they hit you.

[FJRider]

I seem to strike at east one a season, specially this time of the year. Pukeko are scarey shit when they hit you.

You want scarey ... run over a 'possum ... :shit::blink::facepalm:

[Geeen]

Every time I take my work van up SH22 I tend to have birds bounce off my windshield, had a Hawk get stuck under my ladders once. That made me feel really bad :violin: Had some really colourful bird bounce off my windshield today by the Airport (yes Hamilton has one :gob:)

[skippa1]

Thank god the Moa is extinct....:shit: I know they couldnt fly but they could still run out:yes:couldnt they:blink:

[Geeen]

Thank god the Moa is extinct....:shit: I know they couldnt fly but they could still run out:yes:couldnt they:blink:

Or the Haast Eagle......:gob:

[Arrowolf]

Once i run over a chicken,took me days to clean up the eggs and blood off the pipes.
Could not stop laughing when it happened.:woohoo:

[Hitcher]

When you said you liked mounting birds, I thought you must be a taxidermist.

[insomnia01]

Left WellyWood yesterday @ 10am heading home to Te awamutu, leaning/Hanging :gob::gob: into a WICKED WESTERLY cruzing the Himatangi straights had this mid sized bird fly pass right in front of me into the said westerly to then have its world FLY BY when all of a sudden it was blown backwards right in front of me :shit::shit::shit:!!!! Missed the little fella thankfully :sweatdrop.... I dont know who was more puzzelled, me or the bird !

[ducatilover]

Mmmmmm birds......

I got a hug from a magpie once. It cracked my sternum :facepalm:.

[Ender EnZed]

You want scarey ... run over a 'possum ... :shit::blink::facepalm:

Try a sheep.

[Oblivion]

Mmmmmm birds......

I got a hug from a magpie once. It cracked my sternum :facepalm:.

One word here. Ouch :blink:

[Old Steve]

Couple of months ago we were riding across Waikato going to Kawhia. I was leading, and up ahead I saw seven seagulls on the road. Six of them flew off as we approached. But the seventh dwarf, oops, seagull, who must have also been named Dozey just stayed standing on the right hand side of the road. I kept saying to myself, "Don't take off. Don't take off. Don't take off." But Dozey did take off, and flew straight into my indicator and radiator. Really ruined his day, a seagull doesn't survive a 100 km/hr impact with a motorbike, and I kept finding feathers stuck in the strangest places on GLORIA for days afterwards.

[Berries]

Had some really colourful bird bounce off my windshield today by the Airport (yes Hamilton has one :gob:)
That is odd. I thought all the birds in Hamilton were fairly nondescript.

And fat.

[MadDuck]

I got a hug from a magpie once. It cracked my sternum :facepalm:.

Ouch! A bird hit me in the tit once....at 99.9 kms (I dont speed) ....it died!

[Virago]

My other half took a small bird fair in the chest at a reasonable speed - it quite literally exploded in a cloud of dust and feathers. Unhurt, she carried on, but was stricken almost immediately with a severe allergic reaction (she must have inhaled a bit of debris). She could barely see to pull over.

Thirty minutes and a couple of antihistimines later, she was fine.

Certainly a rather unusual bird-strike result.

[MIXONE]

Ouch! A bird hit me in the tit once....at 99.9 kms (I dont speed) ....it died!

What your tit died?:shit:

Well it had to be asked...

[ducatilover]

Ouch! A bird hit me in the tit once....at 99.9 kms (I dont speed) ....it died!

I was doing 99.9kmh also, never go above that myself, never wheelie and never bin it doing wheelies either.

[Banditbandit]

Mmmmmm birds......

I got a hug from a magpie once. It cracked my sternum :facepalm:.

OW !!!

I've hit Spurwing Plovers, (They are Big and painful) Thrushes, Sparrows,Yellow hammers ...

Dumb fuckers .. they are worse than cagers - never learn the road rules ..

[MadDuck]

What your tit died?:shit:

Well it could have been a tit that died..... :innocent: but no not mine

[slofox]

OW !!!

I've hit Spurwing Plovers, (They are Big and painful)

Aren't they bloody just!.

I've had a couple of small birds fly into the front wheel. They just go POOF! and leave very little behind.

[Banditbandit]

Aren't they bloody just!.

I've had a couple of small birds fly into the front wheel. They just go POOF! and leave very little behind.

I had a cat do that .. there was some left ... but not much ... and it took days and days to get al the blood and fur out ..

[Parlane]

I had a cat do that .. there was some left ... but not much ... and it took days and days to get al the blood and fur out ..

This story was so much worse than all the bird ones :(