Are birds waterproof?

[Cocolapew]

I'm sitting looking at 3 wood pigeons sitting in a tree in the lashing rain.
It's a bare branch, why don't they go into where there's more coverage?
Does it not annoy them?
I'm getting pissed off on their behalf

I can imagine seagulls being greasy fuckers.
I'm not a fan.

Nor am I, I detest the swines. It was honestly like something out of Hitchcock here this morning, there were dozens of them screeching. I don't like magpies either, they tossed baby birds out of a nest on the roof at my friends, right onto the driveway, it was horrible.

I can imagine seagulls being greasy fuckers.

Or fulmars, the St Kildans used them for oil lamps.

And apparently for snacks, it was p-p-pick up a puffin.

There's times and places I'm really glad I wasn't born.

thank you for this thread, made me

No, all birds dissolve every time they get caught in the rain.

thank you for this thread, made me 

This is why the OP was quite right not to just google it.

Maybe the ate and burnt allthe sea birds that is why st Kilda was abandoned

No, apparently there were plenty left. I think it was more the having to eat and burn seabirds, and pay their rent in seabirds, that made them eventually ask to be relocated.

Despite human skin being waterproof I still don’t know anyone who’d be happy standing out in the rain getting soaked?!

Animals must be used to it I guess

I can't get the image of a pigeon in a rain hood out of my head now

Combine the two names for gulls - you get the Greater and Lesser Greasy Shitehawk that way.

They are bastards. At least Magpies are intelligent and funny with their innate evildoing - those fuckers just cannonball you on the offchance that you had a chip a week ago last Thursday.

[painful memories of a broken hand sustained on Brighton Pier - when I didn't even have any fucking food].

Mind you, I bet the local Woodpigeons were laughing their little fluffy arses off today at assorted sopping wet adults and children at Sports Day. There weren't any of the buggers sitting on open branches this morning, I can tell you.

I concur-seagulls ARE evil bastards.
Years ago, I used to run a route, turn round then run back the same way. There used to be a seagull sat on a chimney pot, waiting for me to come back, when it would attack me. Of course, it could've been a tag team of seagulls, not necessarily the same one ( I have no way of knowing that )
Nobody believed me until one day, when the sadist followed me home and I had to fend it off with a hockey stick in front of my NDN

That cute little fluffkin in the photo is not a baby puffin - it's a baby Arctic tern

I've been lied to

Is this one?

Dexters did you take the hockey stick specifically in case of the seagull, or did it just fancy a run too?

The spray painted pigeon was one of my favourite threads ever. "Paul...is that you?"

@TheTitOfTheIceberg
Lol! I was very sporty in those days.....

In DH last place of work a seagull used to sit and wait for them to cross the yard to the vans and dive bomb them. At first they thought there might be a nest but I reckon it was just doing what seagulls do.
They were cash in transit vans so they used to put their helments and body armour on to cross the yard 😄

Helmets