[deeceebee]

Had a wood pigeon fly into the side of my old Toyota on the M4. Didn't realise what a mess a wood pigeon made at 70 mph until I got home and had to scrape feathers, guts and gunge off the car.

[nellyhay]

Now i've hit a few birds in my time, normally small things like sparrows etc, always ruins the drive for me.

This morning however I hit a seagull. WTF it was doing that low heaven only knows.

Im still shaking and it was 2 hours ago. Not because I killed it, but because I thought it had killed my car.

70mph and something the size of a chicken hitting ostensibly a bathtub makes one hell of a mess, and a noise like no other.

Managed to clean most of the blood off the front, and the windscreen, and get the feathers out of the grill etc.

Not nice, not nice at all.

Nearly as bad as that rabbit that destroyed the number plate on the Black Pearl

Many many years ago I had a fairly new Volvo 440 GLT, going fairly swiftly down the M11 in the drizzle, wipers on intermittent, and a crow decided to commit hari kiri by headbutting a wiper blade! An awful noise and blood and feathers everywhere..... and it ruined the wipers! They wouldn't work on anything but the high speed setting, and even then only reealllly slowly! Luckily it was the first rain since I had bought it, so took it back to the dealer and complained that the wipers didn't appear to be working properly, got it fixed under warranty... which was nice

[shyann]

Sorry to hear about the seagull attacking your car. Was there any lasting damage like dents or marks on the bodywork?

Ann

[sky]

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[sky]

Har de har

[pumapilot]

Try hitting a Pigeon @ 90mph when your driving a train, that makes you duck down a bit quick too.

[e3silversurfer]

hit nothing so far except flies

[mikey2cv]

I remember a guy coming to work after having hit a crow at several million miles an hour. Thing was, he was on a motorbike at the time. He was a bit shaken too!

[mort666]

glad to hear both you and the car are relatively OK Matt.

Thankfully I don't think I have ever hit (or been hit by) any animals in all the time I've been driving/riding, although I did see a fellow biker get hit by a pidgeon on the shoulder after it had bounced off the front of a national express coach coming the other way. Ended up riding through a cloud of feathers

[Dogweed]

I once overtook a low flying barn owl - it was keeping in lane thank goodness, was quite an odd sight, looking left and being eye to beak with an owl

[Murphy]

I'd hit a Bird in my Dad's old Ibiza 20vt. It hit the passenger mirror the skidded across the windscreen. hat to remove feathers and a leg from the windscreen wiper.

My brother has nailed a badger in his ford Ka. It ripped the underside of his front bumper off.
We went back to spot to gather bits off his car, the badger had limped off leaving a blood trail into a nearby field. Poor thing. I gave him a proper guilt trip over that as he was eating chippy when he hit it!

[pumarv6]

The RV was hit by a small bird a couple of weeks back at about 150mph, now we're trying to find a good tin-basher to fix the dent.

[e3silversurfer]

And a stretch of Armco...

yea that was the most "accomplishing" hit so far

[mikey2cv]

There have been several on here that have hit deer, Ian something or other did in his FRP IIRC - made a right mess.

I hit one in Denmark a few weeks back. Missed my flight because of it. Funny thing was the Danish bloke who pulled over to us on the side of the road. We thought he was offering help; he just wanted to know if we minded him taking the carcass 'cos he'd already loaded it into his boot!

My mate with me at the time said I could cross two things off of the "50 things to do before you die" list; kill a deer and write off a hire car!