Anyone else been dive bombed by a buzzard?
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wheresthetorch
Dreaming of Celeste
- Location
- West Sussex
Reminds of the joke about the guy who went for a job as a blacksmith.
"Have you ever shoed a horse before?"
"No, but I've told a donkey to sod off!"
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
Not dive bombed but bombed from high altitude level flight.
On a beautiful early June morning with not a cloud in the sky the only bird I'd seen was a soaring buzzard. Shortly afterwards there was a terrific SPLAT! which covered half my helmet with sh!te. I stopped and looked up again, still nothing in the sky apart from the buzzard, which I assume was the culprit.
On a beautiful early June morning with not a cloud in the sky the only bird I'd seen was a soaring buzzard. Shortly afterwards there was a terrific SPLAT! which covered half my helmet with sh!te. I stopped and looked up again, still nothing in the sky apart from the buzzard, which I assume was the culprit.
PaulSB
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Not me that was targeted but these two events were pretty amazing.
I was on a short tour from Morecambe to Dumbarton following the west coast. Enroute from Grange to Ulverston I missed the route and stopped to check the map. There was a sudden thud and explosion of feathers as a raptor of some sort hit the ground with a pigeon in its talons literally beside my front wheel. The raptor sat looking at me for perhaps a minute - long enough to get the phone out for a photo - a sort of oh shoot, what next look on its face.
The following day I was riding a Tarmac disused railway line on a downward gradient at speed. The tree canopy was a complete cover. Right in front of me a raptor with a three foot wing span flew out in front of followed by two magpies who mobbed it for about half a mile till the raptor spotted a gap in the canopy and disappeared.
Just a couple of the great experiences you can only get by being out on a bike.
I was on a short tour from Morecambe to Dumbarton following the west coast. Enroute from Grange to Ulverston I missed the route and stopped to check the map. There was a sudden thud and explosion of feathers as a raptor of some sort hit the ground with a pigeon in its talons literally beside my front wheel. The raptor sat looking at me for perhaps a minute - long enough to get the phone out for a photo - a sort of oh shoot, what next look on its face.
The following day I was riding a Tarmac disused railway line on a downward gradient at speed. The tree canopy was a complete cover. Right in front of me a raptor with a three foot wing span flew out in front of followed by two magpies who mobbed it for about half a mile till the raptor spotted a gap in the canopy and disappeared.
Just a couple of the great experiences you can only get by being out on a bike.
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
Once coming down the Bristol Railway Path at speed, a bird flew parallel to me for about 50 yards. We both eyeballed each other and it looked a bit puzzled as if it was thinking 'Crikey, those humans can go fast!'. The nearest I've come to getting dive bombed was last year in St Ives when a seagull almost got my pasty
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I am, however, impressed by a bird's ability to poop on me from 200ft up. They must have really good targeting systems
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.I am, however, impressed by a bird's ability to poop on me from 200ft up. They must have really good targeting systems
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