Whenever I ride through one of the local parks this time of year, I get to fight with both seagulls and geese. I guess they like the pavement because it's warm.. they crap all over the place, makes the path a mine field, then add lazy birds who don't see or hear me coming and it compiles into a huge pain in my a. I usually make some noises to alert them, but they are stubborn bastards and usually just start waddling out in front of me once they see/hear me coming. I always end up having to slow way down and chase them off the path.

In other news, last week on a group night ride, we nearly hit an opossum and a deer. The opossum got between the two lead riders and was directly in my path, I managed to swerve the right way and didn't screw the rider behind me. The deer crossed with enough room that we all just laughed but that opossum nearly took us out. It wasn't funny because a week prior one of the riders had been riding home after the night ride and did hit a critter of some sorts and went down hard. Knees, hands, etc. were all rashed up and his 5000 was scraped up too.