Shat on by a bird while riding?

These birds sound like politicians to me 🤔

Rüppell’s vulture seems to be the bird of choice for getting shat on by from a great height. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_by_flight_heights

11,300m

Weighs 9kg

Eats rotting meat

Fitted a new restrap bar bag to my new gravel bike on the patio – immediately shat on by a bird – man shaking fist and shouting at the sky – daughter rolling around laughing at the sad old man.

Not quite shat on but a defining moment during last years bike packing trip was definitely having a headless bird fall from a tree and land right next to me

I had a huge, viscous, meat-based turd

Sorry, the inner child in me just had to quote this out of context.

“Who knew Pineapples fall from trees on innocent unsuspecting tourists.”

But they grow on the ground? Suprised me when I first saw them.

But they grow on the ground? Suprised me when I first saw them.

This was something called a ‘jungle pineapple’. Same size, maybe a bit bigger. Fell from the trees out where my hotel grounds met the beach.

It was a little bit like that scene from castaway with T.Hanks. Something fell near me and I’m thinking wtf was that, then one landed on me.

I suppose thats what you get for moving the sun loungers.

Sporting a big bruise and asking the staff was reminded. “Careful, they fall out of the tree”.

Maybe a pandanus?

@dyna-ti ‘well I never…’ every day is a school day eh : )

Not riding, gridding up for an NPS XC race in the late 90’s.

Second row i think, 50+ people behind me on a slightly uphill slope, so *very* visible.

A seagull emptied itself on me just as the starter announced “30 seconds to go”. Everyone laughed at me.

Latest was non-bike, but a seagull used me as target practice on Saturday and got a bullseye direct hit on my Garmin watch on my wrist. Bit of a lucky escape really, could’ve been a LOT worse especially as the ricochet splattered away from me reather than towards.

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There you go, I was blissfully unaware of it at the time…I say unaware, felt like something large had fallen from a tree or something.

Well, it had…quite a surprise when I got home…