Yesterday, my road ride was beset by groups of pheasants in the road, just small groups, doing nothing of any apparent consequence, and when I approached on the bike they initially froze and then suddenly scattered in all directions – usually the same direction I was trying to take – with much shrieking and carrying on

Today, on my commute, most of the undergraduates of Nottingham University were displaying exactly the same behaviour on the shared footpath/cyclepath.

Now, I’ve never seen pheasants and students in the same place at the same time, so I’m beginning to wonder if there isn’t some sinister explanation for this “coincidence”

[cue X Files music]

your lucky, they don’t fly away when you walk at them down the corridors… and I think I would get shouted at if I took my bike inside 🙄

wot time of day was this? before mid-day? you sure they were students?

Ah. Studenti.

By day, they are stupid dozy birds with no apparent sense.

By night they are… oh. 😐