I'm guessing you drive a corsa or similar?? No idea what a flock of them is called but seen half a dozen wheeling around in the sky is majestic.
Hit a pheasant on the way to Ipswich away once, really ****ed up the front end of the motor, cost me about £500. The feathery **** him.
Just watched a tawny owl flying round the garden, and making a right noise. Had a bit of a preen in the big tree, then silently flew off down the woods direction. Huge in flight, but amazingly quiet.
The thing is - a lot of them are bought in to shooting estates as poults; penned and fed before release. This A) keeps them fairly local to where they are later going to be shot the **** out of; and B) they associate a motor vehicle with food, cos the 'keeper' used to arrive to feed them when they were in a pen. So they're often in the road, which is where the cars are...
Noticed that there was a couple of 'falsies' in the roof at Hearts in the friendly we played there a couple of years ago. Good game it was.
I live in an area full of pheasants and Chazz is right, they're the bird equivalent of Patty, the term bird brained is surely based on them.
Back in the day a kestrel was Britains smallest bird of prey. They catch their prey by hovering then swooping down. Sparrow hawks fly in very fast and swoop on their prey. Kestrels used to be quite common a few years back and sparrow hawks were a rarity in built up areas. This seems to have reversed in recent years.