Being a bird lover, it follows that I don’t like cat’s. I cannot begin to comprehend why anyone would want five of the blighters!

Being a commited veggie, I’d have no reason to pick up a dead one off the road!

Please do, can’t wait.

To return to ‘stupid’ pheasants again for a moment, stupidity is a human concept, it does not apply to the natural world.

Birds are not ‘stupid’.

A blackbird, for instance flys low over a forest clearing because by keeping a ‘low profile’ he/she is less likely to be picked off by a predatory bird such as a sparrowhawk.

The blackbird is doing the same thing when he/she flys low over a road. Unfortunately, it’s going to take some time before evolution kicks in, and the birds figure out that by flying low over a road they are in more danger from a passing car then from a predatory bird.