Pheasant Season

[englishdas]

Managed to clobber a female Pheasant with a death wish on sunday. It was either that or swerve into a local classic Beemer 5 series coming the other way up a tight country lane.

Took the car into the garage for another job (EPC failure) and was reminded of the birdstrike by a collection of feathers in the bonnet gap next to the light. Pulled the feathers out and the damn thing's gone and shoved the bonnet back about 2 inches. marvellous.

 

[Charles Morgan]

They are heavy birds and depending on your speed can do some serious damage. Death in the shooting field by being hit by a falling one has been known to happen.

 

[lxi]

unlucky - I had a similar episode about a month ago - hit a pigeon that decided to have that one last bite of whatever was on the road - it was indeed its last bite as I hit the damn thing at about 90.

My outcome was better though - the pigeon exploded but it hit about the only strong part, that being the corner of the bumper with the extra depth to hold the parking sensors. 2" higher it would have taken out the entire headlight - as it was, not a mark (once I washed off the blood that streaked almost the entire side of the car)!

 

[kwakdonut]

I call them 'stupid dancing birds' for their habit of running out in front of you then going backwards and forwards until squashed or escaping back into the fields!!

 

[Howard]

I used to do a lot of field archery years ago , and it was always in the middle of nowhere , with lots of pheasants around. People were forever hitting them.

One chap hit one on the way home once , didn't splatter it , and stopped to pick it up thinking he would hang it and then cook it at a later date.

Long story short , it was stunned and came back to life on the motorway and was less than impressed at being laid on the back seat of an XJ6. Apparently it was one of the most terrifying experiences of the chaps life , trying to get from the fast lane to the hard shoulder with a deranged pheasant going potty in the car.

 

[MicB]

Managed to clobber a female Pheasant with a death wish on sunday. It was either that or swerve into a local classic Beemer 5 series coming the other way up a tight country lane.

Took the car into the garage for another job (EPC failure) and was reminded of the birdstrike by a collection of feathers in the bonnet gap next to the light. Pulled the feathers out and the damn thing's gone and shoved the bonnet back about 2 inches. marvellous.

Yep....did a lot of damage to my Volvo once when a very fast low flying pheasant hit the near side fog lamp.

Mic

 

[clk270]

Clobbered one at about 60mph (after braking!) in my old Mk3 Golf last year - thankfully all it did was break the dummy fog light cover, so £7 on ebay and it was all sorted.

 

[Bellow]

On a bike

at about 90.

a pheasant walked out and stopped in my path

I call them 'stupid dancing birds' for their habit of running out in front of you then going backwards and forwards until squashed or escaping back into the fields!!

and because they do the above - I had a split second to guess which way it would go next. Fortunately I guessed correctly.

In a car doing another 20 above that beheaded one so cleanly it was still dancing when I looked back, though probably not for much longer.

Deer are a bigger worry though, and yes, I've hit one of them as well.

 

[fuzzer]

I hit one about 50 after braking down from about 80 and trying to avoid it on the M1 in my W211 on the way to the dealer to get fixed

I lived to tell the tale but about £150 lighter not bad considering the noise it made :S

 

[tagnut]

Managed to clobber a female Pheasant with a death wish on sunday.

Same thing happened to me on Saturday, literally came out of nowhere and only saw the damn thing just before hitting it. Broken bumper grill and the inside edge where this connects to the bumper. Haven't taken it in yet but suspect will need a whole new bumper

 

[BTB 500]

As per another thread I lost a wiper yesterday when a pigeon hit the windscreen of the Vito on the A27. A few miles later we were on back roads and saw quite a few pheasant wandering about - gave them a wide berth!

 

[BTB 500]

Deer are a bigger worry though, and yes, I've hit one of them as well.

There have been a couple of night-time fatalities due to deer on the main road by my house (A322) ... it's an unlit and unrestricted dual carriageway, with woodland on both sides. There are 'deer' warning signs, but they always strike me as a bit daft. If they think you should drive slower then they ought to lower the speed limit

 

[NormanC]

There have been a couple of night-time fatalities due to deer on the main road by my house (A322) ... it's an unlit and unrestricted dual carriageway, with woodland on both sides. There are 'deer' warning signs, but they always strike me as a bit daft. If they think you should drive slower then they ought to lower the speed limit

Don't worry about deer warning signs - worry when you see these....

 

[Deleted member 37751]

Don't worry about deer warning signs - worry when you see these....

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Looks like the Bear version of Rod Hull/ Emu

 

[Bellow]

Don't worry about deer warning signs - worry when you see these....

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Fear not!
You can never outrun a bear. So don't even try.
Just be sure you can outrun whoever is standing next to you....

 

[312 Sprinter]

I saw a Volvo in a Swedish scrapyard that had hit an elk. It hit it up the back side and the roof was so badly damaged that it came back. That sliced the belly of the moose open and filled the whole of the car to seat level with blood, guts and entrails.

Apparently the driver looked such a mess that when people arrived on the scene they thought the driver was dead. In fact he was only unconcious and had nothing more serious than concussion and a small cut on his head when he came to. An adult male can weigh 500kg and a lot of people get killed in Elk traffic accidents.

 

[Krobar]

Gotta love the way some pheasants will run back and forth in front of the car, Darwin doesnt apply to them.

 

[219]

Managed to clobber a female Pheasant with a death wish on sunday. It was either that or swerve into a local classic Beemer 5 series coming the other way up a tight country lane.

Took the car into the garage for another job (EPC failure) and was reminded of the birdstrike by a collection of feathers in the bonnet gap next to the light. Pulled the feathers out and the damn thing's gone and shoved the bonnet back about 2 inches. marvellous.

Count yourself lucky :

In 1952 the Carrera Panamericana saw the introduction of two categories - Sports Cars and Stock Cars, dividing what had previously been a single class, so American heavy saloons did not have to compete directly with the nimble European sports cars. The major automobile manufacturers had taken notice of the race and Mercedes-Benz sent a highly organized group of people and cars to the race. First and second places were won by Karl Kling and Herman Lang, driving the 300SL.

The Mercedes 300SL of K. Kling & H. Klenk following the impact of a vulture to the windscreen

Famously, the victory of the Mercedes-Benz 300SL of Kling and Hans Klenk came despite the car being hit by a vulture in the windscreen. During a long right-hand bend in the opening stage, taken at almost 200 km/h (120 mph), Kling failed to spot vultures sitting by the side of the road. As the birds scattered at the sound of the virtually unsilenced 300SL, one impacted through the windscreen on the passenger side, briefly knocking co-driver and navigator Klenk unconscious. Despite bleeding badly from facial injuries from the shattered windscreen, Klenk ordered Kling to maintain speed, and held on until a tyre change almost 70 km (43 mi) later to wash himself and the car of blood, bird and glass. For extra protection, eight vertical steel bars were bolted over the new windscreen. Kling and Klenk also discussed the species and size of the dead bird, agreeing that it was a bird with a minimum 115-centimetre (45 in) wingspan and weighing as much as five fattened geese[6].

 

[HR17]

I saw a deer, antlers and all, parked in the windscreen of a car on the M6 years ago - must have been a trouser browning experience for the driver. Also a friend had a sheep fall through his windscreen in Wales - equally as scary but funnier obviously.

 

[JOB-BLACK-RAT]

Cant get the link to come across, can someone youtube this txt and post it (Bird hit 180mph car)

Rather apt given this thread