Living where I do, in the Highlands of Scotland, helps me keep a sensible perspective on this sort of reporting. I live alongside a NATO military low flying area, where aircraft are often passing overhead at ridiculously low altitude. Of course, it is absolutely necessary for military pilots to do so, to hone their flying skills.
But come October, for two or three weeks, the skies here are full of migrating greylag and pink foot geese. These are big birds, weighing substantially more than a drone, and for days on end there are thousands of them flying at altitudes of up to about 2000 ft, well above the training altitude of these military aircraft. And it doesn't seem to bother the pilots one whit; they still train and no word is said about the potential risk, which must be considerable. They just seem to take it in their stride. Perhaps a skein of 70 greylag geese each weighing about 10 lbs present a substantial enough radar signature to allow for avoidance. I wouldn't know. What I do know is, when the skies are full of migrating geese, a drone, by comparison (and engine air intake excluded), seems a pretty insubstantial object.
