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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marmot" data-source="post: 796124" data-attributes="member: 5194">When dragging the wheelie bin in one day nearly got hit by a Sparrowhawk that was coming into grab some of the fnches, sparrows in the garden. One of my work colleagues had been riding his bicycle down a country lane one morning and a Blue Tit flew out and into his chest area, I don't know who was more taken aback of the two of them.  Luckily with him been a really good cyclist he managed to ride along taking both hands off the handlebars and disentangle it from his mesh cycling jacket.</blockquote>