Do birds go for you in the dark...?

[DrSquirrel]

I've had a few close ones with birds, mostly Buzzards.

This morning it was a Barn Owl



Is it just chance that we almost "clash" or are these birds attracted to the light etc?

 

[dellzeqq]

Sorry. I thought you were suggesting that cyclists could only pull by night. As you were....

 

[upsidedown]

By pure coincidence i had a bat accompany me this morning just in front and to the right of me. Only about 50 yards but very pleasant. Had owls do it before but never a bat.

 

[Jezston]

Sorry. I thought you were suggesting that cyclists could only pull by night. As you were....

Or that Dr Squirrel has a 'good personality', so to speak.

 

[jimboalee]

 

[Midnight]

By pure coincidence i had a bat accompany me this morning just in front and to the right of me. Only about 50 yards but very pleasant. Had owls do it before but never a bat.

I've noticed quite a few bats just lately, in the early evenings. The other night I had one stay just in front of me for a couple of hundred yards. Not that I mind, I'm a bat-lover...

 

[johnr]

I quite often get followed by a barn owl on my commute. It glides around me waiting to see if I disturb mice, voles or rabbits all of which seem to tolerate cars and lorries, but run for it if a bike goes by.

I was once hit by a herd? of ducks. They were in a hedgerow eating whatever emerges after a shower. They took off en masse as I passed. I was hit by two or three of them. Fortunately none of them went into the wheels. They leave a nasty bruise.

 

[upsidedown]

Ahhh is that why the owls do it ?
Not sure what the collective noun for ducks is but "herd of ducks" made me chuckle :-)

 

[magnatom]

I always found that birds would only ever go for me in the dark......


IGMC!

 

[magnatom]

Oops! I really should read the replies above!

 

[NormanD]

The birds around here often bugger off to the pub in skimpy gear and return late at night with their feathers ruffled   

Bats I often see when I'm doing a late cycle ride, but they're seen from my bedroom widow every night, I've watched them take moths in flight from around the street lamp outside.

 

[Headgardener]

Ahhh is that why the owls do it ?
Not sure what the collective noun for ducks is but "herd of ducks" made me chuckle :-)

Gaggle I believe is the correct term.



Edit: The thought of a "herd" of half ton bovine ducks makes oi giggle.

 

[automatic_jon]

I've was dive bombed by a seagull in broad daylight recently.

Other than that, any birds that have gone for me in the dark have lost interest once they've seen me in the light.

 

[gb155]

A little OT, but Ducks and Geese on the canal seemed to go for me, the first few times I rode down there, now I just squeel and they run away

 

[adds21]

I had a kestrel nearly fly into me once. It then turned and flew along side me for a few hundred feet.