Hitting birds with your car

kwerk

kwerk

kwerk

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Why is it so hard to hit birds with a car? I've only ever managed it once.

It is down to pure skill on their part, or some sort of slip stream over the bonnet that pushes them out of harms way at the last second?
 
When I drive to work at 5am, sometimes these disabled pigeons just sit in the road. So I have to toot my tooter to make them fly away. I could just crush them all.
 
The key is time of year and bird. For choice of bird pick the seagul. For time of year spring. Those seaguls that fail to fly become walking targets for a car.
 
A bird's perception of time differs from a human's and as such they can react easily to events we consider too quick to react to. Birds see us coming. Birds see me coming all the time.
 
i was once camping in a field and a few miles away i saw all these emergency lights, curiousness got the better of me so i walked over (about a mile) to have a look. A land rover had hit a cow... Both the land rover and the cow were ALL MESSED UP.
 
Also, put red bulbs in your headlights. This will put the birds into a trance state making them easy to hit. A few bucks spent on a couple of bulbs could shave hundreds off your food bill.
 
I just put bird nests in my garden with a bit of TNT under them, this trick costs me a few bird cages a week but I get a bit of free dinner.
Just had magpie for breakfast, quite nice actually.
 
Only ever hit one. It flew into the side of my car when I was doing around 60.

Left a lovely dust print of a bird on the window.
 
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