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Keep finding screws in my front garden. Either the chap across the road is lobbing them over or something is dropping them. 2 inch aluminium looking nail found today.
African birds, maybe, but not European ones.
Magpies do that sometimes.
I worked on a building site once where a pigeon used a large quantity of 4 inch wire nails to build his nest in one of the roof spaces.
A 4 inch nail must be pretty heavy for a pigeon to carry whilst flying, I dare say that he must have dropped quite a few, they usually manage to drop quite a few twigs during the process of nest building.
I hope so, as that's my working hypothesis for finding a full dog poo bag in my garden a few weeks ago! I don't have a dog and the garden is away from any paths.
African birds, maybe, but not European ones.
What IS the wing speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Magpies do that sometimes.
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yes they do.
magpies are renowned for knicking stuff.
seagulls pick up mussels and drop them on hard surfaces to open them and get to teh tasty goodness inside. Young seagully mistake mussels for stones and you get smashed roof lights as a result. The bastards also practice dropping stones on our flat roof.
there are probably other examples but these are the ones i know.
African birds, maybe, but not European ones.
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No, once they’ve picked something up it’s impossible for them to drop it.
They also drop pork pies. Many years ago was driving down a country road when something fell at great speed and hit the washer jet on a brand new VW caddy van and smashed it. Half a pork pie came to rest on the bottom of the windscreen and to be fair it looked bloody awful as there was a lot of fat and meat stuck on the glass and I had to pull over to let the apprentice out as he started borking! The boss never believed how the washer jet got smashed.
I usually drop stuff and my bird picks it up
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Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
It's the plot of an entire season of Detectorists
Young seagully mistake mussels for stones and you get smashed roof lights as a result
Our s****y office suffered this, massive panes in the atrium ceiling smashed. Think they flew those bird kite things thereafter.
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
They do! thats how they get to remote islands.
seagulls pick up mussels and drop them on hard surfaces to open them and get to teh tasty goodness inside
The seagulls round here are more cleverer as they just drop the gooey stuff without needing to break the mussels open.
Crows will carry things into the air and drop them onto hard surfaces to break them open, coastal birds will drop shellfish into rocks. Smart birds, it doesn’t take them long to work out how to make a tool to get at food, or use whatever’s available, like geography.
One of my neighbours puts out whole slices of bread, and overenthusiastic birds keep taking off with them then dropping them after a bit once they realise their hubris or as a bit tears off.
And so I, a gluten intolerant human, get hate-crimed by crows throwing wheat-containing bread in my garden.
I've had chicken bones dropped down my chimney. One of the many large crows around here, or a magpie.
I get the chicken bones down the chimney if that’s where they stop for lunch and then use the nearest waste chute, but why pick up a screw and then abandon it mid flight!
I get the chicken bones down the chimney if that’s where they stop for lunch and then use the nearest waste chute, but why pick up a screw and then abandon it mid flight!
you never fancied a screw mid-flight but then chickened out?
Ospreys.
Found a salmon in the middle of a trail path.
It was a fair bit from any Loch.
I bet it got a right bollocking back at the nest.
We were following my parents car along a road once and saw a buzzard take off out the field next to road carrying something that looked suspiciously like a snake. Which it proceeded to drop onto the bonnet of my parents car. My mum is terrified of snakes. She was delighted to confirm that it had indeed dropped a dead adder onto their car!