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Sue White
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Alan Holmes <[email protected]> whizzed past me shouting
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>> A turkey (the amount of feathers was simply unbelieveable)
>
>If you think that was a lot, you should see how many feathers are on a
>pigeon, I ran over one once and when I looked in the mirror, the cloud of
>feathers was the width of the road and about 15 feet high, I couldn't
>believe it.
>
I think pigeons actively shed feathers when alarmed (for instance, when
grabbed and thrown out of your shed or garage) perhaps to confuse
predators while they make their escape.
A turkey has at least as many feathers as a pigeon but each one is
*much* larger.
The road, verges and hedges were thick with them for about twenty yards.
At first I assumed the casualty had been a lorryload of mattresses or
something, but they don't put wing and tail feathers in furniture. Then
I smelt something decaying and realised the largest mound of feathers
was the carcass of a vast adult turkey, not your family dinner job, more
the industrial catering size.
It must've done the vehicle a good deal of damage.
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Sue ]
Why aren't we advocating regular retests for motorists?
It's obvious a lot of them would fail and that'd solve the road congestion problem too.
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>> A turkey (the amount of feathers was simply unbelieveable)
>
>If you think that was a lot, you should see how many feathers are on a
>pigeon, I ran over one once and when I looked in the mirror, the cloud of
>feathers was the width of the road and about 15 feet high, I couldn't
>believe it.
>
I think pigeons actively shed feathers when alarmed (for instance, when
grabbed and thrown out of your shed or garage) perhaps to confuse
predators while they make their escape.
A turkey has at least as many feathers as a pigeon but each one is
*much* larger.
The road, verges and hedges were thick with them for about twenty yards.
At first I assumed the casualty had been a lorryload of mattresses or
something, but they don't put wing and tail feathers in furniture. Then
I smelt something decaying and realised the largest mound of feathers
was the carcass of a vast adult turkey, not your family dinner job, more
the industrial catering size.
It must've done the vehicle a good deal of damage.
--
Sue ]
Why aren't we advocating regular retests for motorists?
It's obvious a lot of them would fail and that'd solve the road congestion problem too.