Anyone ever hit a bird? Anyone got a good bird avoidance plan they'd care
to share?

I've noticed most of the larger birds tend to tuck their wings and dive
when startled...

Also, we had a guy in our hangar take a small songbird-type right into
one of the air inlets of his RV-4... he spent a week cleaning bird guts
from between the cylinder fins. We ended up putting a bird silhouette
under the canopy.