Kamikazee Ducks

**McJim** · 18th September 2006, 16:31

Anyone else running into little cute problems crossing the road?

On Thursday night was coming back from The Dover's place after the run and had to brake hard to avoid a little column of duck and ducklings crossing the road in the pitch dark. Only saw them late and was travelling quite fast at the time (for me).

Then Yesterday was hooning through the countryside came round a corner near Clevedon and hey presto - another column of ducklings waddling across the tarmac.

Twice in one week - it's a conspiracy I tell you!

no animals were harmed in the making of this post.

**Riff Raff** · 18th September 2006, 16:36

There's a ducky family living on the median strip on Druces Rd in Manukau. They like to have family outings in the wee small hours when I'm travelling P1 in the ambulance on night shifts. Thanks to some pretty good evasive maneouvres none have been harmed so far.

**bert_is_evil** · 18th September 2006, 16:51

awwww cute! they need to be wearing little hi-viz vests

**McJim** · 18th September 2006, 16:54

Originally Posted by bert_is_evil

awwww cute! they need to be wearing little hi-viz vests

Yeah - or not hiding round blind corners.

Good practice for the ol' emergency anchors though - young Maverick was travelling behind me the first time. Glad he had kept a decent distance or he would have been up my tail pipe....or was that just coz his bandit couldn't keep up on the uphill stretch?

**Big Dave** · 18th September 2006, 20:04

Not ducks, but I came very close to a splattering a family of goats running wild in the Hunuas last tuesday - ran out of thick undergrowth and if I had of been going full tilt....no butts.

**Big Dave** · 18th September 2006, 20:06

Originally Posted by Riff Raff

There's a ducky family living on the median strip on Druces Rd in Manukau. They like to have family outings in the wee small hours when I'm travelling P1 in the ambulance on night shifts. Thanks to some pretty good evasive maneouvres none have been harmed so far.

We've had to scrape several patients off the side windows however.

**Leong** · 18th September 2006, 20:41

Just FYI,

There are usually chickens at the top of the hill on Twilight road and on the onramp to the Southern Motorway from the South Eastern Arterial Route.

Also turkeys two corners out of Kawakawa Bay heading towards Kaiaua...

**Colapop** · 18th September 2006, 20:57

FFS!! Why do they never cross at the lights!! Won't someone think of the children ... oops I mean ducklings... no, wait .. they are....

**smokeyging** · 18th September 2006, 21:00

We’re having the same problem down here in the south, but we are later here, they are at the breeding stage at the moment, haven't seen any little ones yet. Bloody ducks, don’t know how many I've flattened with the truck between here and Invercargill every day, flat ducks everywhere. They just seem to here the truck coming and fly straight into it, one cobber I was talking to, one smashed his windscreen and came right in the cab, feathers and shit everywhere, bloody things....the missus is a cumin, I’s a cumin, and the trucks the only thing with brakes....

**Lil_Byte** · 18th September 2006, 21:04

Kamakasi possums can be a bit of a problem - broke the bottom of my fairing on my old RF400. Then the little bugger got off and ran off

**Big Dave** · 18th September 2006, 21:07

Originally Posted by Leong

Also turkeys two corners out of Kawakawa Bay heading towards Kaiaua...

I saw them too - in a white Subaru half on my side of the road!

**McJim** · 18th September 2006, 21:14

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Not ducks, but I came very close to a splattering a family of goats running wild in the Hunuas last tuesday - ran out of thick undergrowth and if I had of been going full tilt....no butts.

What were you doing in the undergrowth?

**Colapop** · 18th September 2006, 21:18

Used to love being on the range out there. The goats would come over the ridge and cross behind the targets regularly. We always got told that the first person to shoot at them would get charged - someone would and then it was open slather!

**Hitcher** · 18th September 2006, 21:26

Exocet ducks -- we were rafting the Motu many moons ago (fantastic experience, involving an overnight stop) and in the early morning light we rounded a corner to encounter a flock of mallards doing a bit of low flying upstream. The lead ducks saw us too late as we also saw them two late, and two of us who were up front paddling copped the brunt of the inadvertent full-frontal assault. Nobody on either side was killed, but there was a demonstrable difference in bowel control between the two sides!