When I lived in Iowa City in the late 70's/early 80's, I'd ride the Sand Road and get bombed by Redwings. Never since then. The Wisconsin Red Wings are a much more agreeable lot, I guess. I do know that Red Wings (like so many dumb birds) nest on the ground in the high grass by road side ditches. they post sentinels on Telephone wires (I call them Telephone wires, who knows what actually passes through those wires anymore) and the lookouts would chase off intruders - in this case bikers. At mid-day I would look down and see this shadow zigging and zagging on the road beneath me, followed by a sharp bird call by my ear. That would get yer attention. Right about then a farm dog would launch out from the next farmstead and I'd be high tailing it away from the bird attack right into the teeth of some coon hound.
Ahh... what great times those were, eh? And that's my story Mark > Wasn't there a spate, about 6-8 years ago, of attacks by red-wing > blackbirds on the Military Ridge trail, out by where Epic is now? If > memory serves, they seemed to go at the heads of riders wearing red > helmets. Anybody else recall this? > > -- > Paul T. O'Leary > Chronic Nuisance > Madison, WI USA > _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
