Not a bird strike but an amusing incident landing back at EGBO earlier this year with a 152 which had flown from Blackpool and had followed me through Shawbury MATZ and who I hoped was listening but probably wasn't going to spoil the habit of the latter part of the trip, (if you are reading this I am STILL a HER!)

and was asked to expedite a short backtrack as the 152 was on final. As I landed I saw one of the local buzzards sitting just inside the runway edge where I made a 180 deg turn. Buzzard looked at me for a second or two then hopped politely back over the white line at the edge.

I let the tower know about its presence. A short time later my previous FI landed only to find it sitting in the middle of the runway from where it glared at him and refused to move

- cue the birdscaring gear from the Fire Department which was eventually effective.

It did this several times over the next few weeks and on the occasions when I was landing it always moved but still refused to do so for the FIs. I haven't seen it for a week or two

but it is probably nesting at the moment.