How about this visitor that showed up on our masthead recently?
Actually, birds sitting up there are not my favorite thing - not even our National Bird... perhaps especially not our National Bird. See, that guy weighs 10-15 lb. And that thing he has his left foot on was not made to carry his weight, or even half of it. Thankfully he is too big to get both feet on it.
That "thing" is the sensor for our wind instrumentation - a pretty essential thing for a wind-powered vehicle. See the spinner (wind speed) and fin (wind direction) out on the end? I've already had to repair the direction sensor once due to an obese bird sitting on it and breaking it.
So, despite the delite of our neighbors (m/v Konocti Bay, who captured the photo), I shooed him off by banging on the shrouds.
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I've got a replacement anemometer wheel sitting sitting on my desk right now. Our national bird stepped on it a few months ago.
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