I was taking a walk, hoping to catch a good picture of salmon spawning in the local stream. The light was low, however. Salmon don't like to have sex in broad daylight.
Then, I came across this scene of total horror. That's not paint. It's bird crap. Maybe it was two or three birds, but it could also have been just one miserable bird on the hop with what can only be described as a bomb load that overstressed the bomb bay, as it were.
Why should I concern myself with bird droppings? For one thing, I feel blessed that the railing took this punishment and not my car or even worse, me. Please see JSVB Post #533 (please click here) to see more commentary on this topic. However, the birds that have been hitting my car have been leaving industrial strength flop, stuff that requires soap and hot water and heavy scrubbing to save the paint underneath. I suspect that some birds are feeding on the salmon that died after spawning, and this is contributing to the white wave of airborne terror that is spreading across my neighbourhood.
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