Bloody Pheasants !

[h1ghway1]

Travelling towards Dorchester yesterday on A35 doing about 50 ish.. and suddenly out steps a Pheasant from behind a hedge.. oh dear I think and brace myself for it to go under my wheels/van... but no this one tried to fly away... and destroyed my passenger side mirror... I could not stop as I'm in a flow of traffic...

Fortunately I dont have any of those fancy electric/heated mirrors .. but a search on Ebay doesnt really help me as I seem to have very old mirror mounts .. I'm posting pictures here of the passenger mount which looks like an aftermarket replacement and the driver side which looks like the original..would prefer a salvage mirror rather than new..

 

[Figaro]

I lost a near side mirror to a tipper truck in Croatia.
Same mount as yours on my Hymer and cost £42 for the pair off ebay so I now have a matching pair and a spare.
Just looked and no longer available from the seller I used but there were lots of others at the time, just do a search.

 

[Figaro]

I think these are the ones

 

[JockandRita]

h1ghway1. Unlucky re the bird strike.

Many folks find what they are looking for from Carlyle Bus & Coach, when it comes to mirrors and lamps for MHs.

Good luck.

P.S. A good link from Figaro.

 

[h1ghway1]

Thanks.. I've got a prototype Pheasant Deflector on trial

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[DuxDeluxe]

If you think that is bad, try driving around Norfolk........

.....you’ll really know about it when you hit a peasant!

 

[h1ghway1]

And I have one for the female funster

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[h1ghway1]

sorry girls

 

[Figaro]

....... and the gender neutral / gender fluid ?

 

[Vipar]

Pheasant 1 wing mirror 0

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[Figaro]

This is what was left of mine

I was very pleased not to have the fancy coach type mirrors costing £500 !

 

[h1ghway1]

....... and the gender neutral / gender fluid ?

At 64... I'm male.. but thanks for asking

 

[Vipar]

Go on you know you want to try supergluing it back together just for the fun of it. I would,, then probably throw it in the bin?

 

[JJ20]

If you think that is bad, try driving around Norfolk........

.....you’ll really know about it when you hit a peasant!

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[Minxy]

sorry girls

No apology necessary ... I like pink ... this was my first Smart car.

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[Neil Bedwin]

I was out cycling last week and must have startled 5 or more pheasants....one came very close to me. Hitting a mirror is bad but I don't want to find out what it's like having one bounce off your chest at 15mph on a bike!

 

[DBK]

They shouldn't be here and ought to be classed as an invasive non-native species but I can't see that happening yet.

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[mushy]

Pink and smart in the same sentence really shouldn't go together.

Just grab me coat.

 

[Ivory55]

You could try an hgv parts company as it looks just like an older daf mirror. Might be cheaper than paying dealers prices.

 

[movan]

Travelling towards Dorchester yesterday on A35 doing about 50 ish.. and suddenly out steps a Pheasant from behind a hedge.. oh dear I think and brace myself for it to go under my wheels/van... but no this one tried to fly away... and destroyed my passenger side mirror... I could not stop as I'm in a flow of traffic...

Fortunately I dont have any of those fancy electric/heated mirrors .. but a search on Ebay doesnt really help me as I seem to have very old mirror mounts .. I'm posting pictures here of the passenger mount which looks like an aftermarket replacement and the driver side which looks like the original..would prefer a salvage mirror rather than new..View attachment 346836View attachment 346837View attachment 346838View attachment 346839

How was the pheasant?

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[Vipar]

I bet it was tasty?

 

[Wild Brambles]

Ah - roadkill pheasant, what a luxury.
I'm not a good pheasant plucker, so I just skin them.

 

[matt34]

I blame the farmers they must be awful at shooting nowadays the amount around

 

[Wee Bold Davy]

We've got loads around here. I've had 11 in my small front garden. They're bred and released for shooting and quite often you drive over the brow of a hill and find half a dozen standing in the middle of the road and they've got worse road sense than rabbits

 

[PeteH]

Stupid Birds, You would think after several Hundred Years, they would KNOW, when the man shouts and waves at them to fly over HIS head and not into the Guns!. The pre Xmas Pheasant Slaughter is in full swing round here. One of the local Farmers Runs "Shooting Parties". Allegedly around 3 grand a gun!. Our dog is definitely NOT a gun dog when the shooting starts she hides under the furniture, beds et; anything that is handy.

BTW, virtually all the Pheasants around Dorscester will be the "property" of HRH Charles Etc; Prince of Wales. Most of the land is/was part of the Duchy of Cornwall as I remember. Many of the farmers being his tenants.

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[Reallyretired]

This is what was left of mine

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I was very pleased not to have the fancy coach type mirrors costing £500 !

£500 would be cheap. My offside mirror taken off by a truck in Scotland was over £1,000 just for the mirror (electric, heated, coach style Rapido A-class) plus another hundred or so for fitting.

 

[Ralph-n-Bev]

There’s loads around here . Signs on the side roads saying “slow pheasants” for the shoots.
Blooming kamikaze birds ?

 

[KiwiKampers]

I'm so glad Kiwis can't fly.

 

[PhilMary]

You lot seem to have it so easy ...
On Sunday I was out on my mountain bike at the top end of the Ribble valley. My normal route takes me back to West Martin where I can join the Leeds Liverpool canal for an easy ride home.
Just before the bridleway joins the canal towpath I caught up with a young lady walking two horses up to the stables.
I stay well back from horses as A, they don't have brakes and are best part of a ton each and B, disc brakes have a tendency to squeal when wet and may scare the horses.
As we get to the last section the lady leading the horses pulls them into one side and thanks me and tells me to come past. Ok, thanks says I and just as I slowly get level with the larger if the two horses a bl**dy pheasent jumps out of the bushes. Well all hell let's loose. The bigger horse kicks the smaller horse. The smaller horse jumps to one side bashing into the young lady who trips and slips on the wet grass and in the process she topples into me knocking me off balance and I wobble into the verge. Unfortunately the verge isn't grass as it looks but a deep ditch full of water and mud and horse sh*t. I have nowhere to go but down into the ditch.
Everything went very quiet. I look up at the "horse" lady who is busting a gut trying not to laugh. It was so ridiculous I just bust out laughing.
The moral of the story. On Sundays stay in the pub where you're warm and safe from pheasent and horses.
Phil

 

[Steve and Denise]

Still a lot cheaper than a Hymer headlight I know.

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