Dead Bird

[rain_gryphon]

A curious photograph of a dead Bird hanging in a tree. I wonder if Birds ever die while they're flying? I'm sure it has to happen sometime. I can picture one at enormous altitude, dying or passing out from lack of oxygen, then slowly nosing over into a dive-bomber glide, wings still extended, so that he ends up doing a beak plant into the ground at half the speed of sound.

What would be the odds of someone getting hit by the plumetting Bird corpse? I'm guessing it would have had to have happened at least once. Aeschylus got killed when an Eagle dropped its prey (a Turtle, unfortunately for him) on top of his head, IIRC, so that stuff does happen every so often.

That's gotta be a hell of a moment, when you're walking down the street with your buddy Aeschylus, and all of a sudden a Turtle falls out of the sky and brains him.

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[oliver-otter.livejournal.com]

Getting nailed by a clam that a seagull was dropping from way up high in order to break its shell was an occasional risk while visiting my grandmother's beach home in Norwalk, CT way back when. More of a risk to cars, though. The gulls weren't looking to hit people, as they wanted the clam to impact on something hard.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

Getting pooped on, or having my food stolen is the worst risk I've run from Birds. Once on the Washington Mall I did get a hotdog swiped by a Seagull, which was sorta cool. I saw sitting on a bench, eating, not paying a whole lot of attention, when I felt a tug, and my hotdog bun got suddenly lighter. He'd landed on the bench when I wasn't looking, and snatched my lunch with great finesse.