Honker crash on i90 bridge

[Spuddieselwwu]

Was driving home from work yesterday, heading east out of the mt. baker tunnel leaving Seattle.   I come out of the tunnel, see a flock of 10 Canada's just about to go over the bridge, the lead dog was low, semi switches into the far right lane - BOOM, takes 3 out, feathers everywhere.  Damn things flew right into the side of the cab of the truck. Saw a carcass still on the side of the bridge today on my way in.  All happened in slo-mo, right in front of me.  Too bad, they looked like nice big birds.

[Mfowl]

Never actually seen it happen but I've seen several dead geese on both I-90 and 520 floating bridges. I've had a couple pigeons nearly meet there end on my windshield while swooping in/out of overpasses.

[h20hunter]

buddies wife nailed a honker a bit back in their truck....it just destroyed the left front headlight. they are solid birds when you hit 'em at 70.

[singleshot12]

My friend also had a big mallard commit suicide with his grill the other day. Strange..you'd think honkers would be even smarter than that.

[vandeman17]

Back in the day, my mom hit an owl driving home from work. At the time, she was driving a big ol' lifted ford with a brush guard. She assumed that she missed the owl because she didn't hear or feel anything when it swooped in front of her. When she came to pick me up from daycare, I remember walking outside and seeing this owl spread eagle in the brushguard. I was only like 4 years old but I remember it vividly. 

[jackmaster]

i heard them things can make quite the mess at a airport   

[turkeyfeather]

Never actually seen it happen but I've seen several dead geese on both I-90 and 520 floating bridges. I've had a couple pigeons nearly meet there end on my windshield while swooping in/out of overpasses.

Had a pigeon meet the windshield of my bus the other day doing this exact same thing. 

[kenzmad]

Clipped an owl once in bothell on 405. Thumped him with cb antennae. Caught a little tweety bird in the mirroe of the semi. He rode there for 20 miles til i stopped and plop, he fell off.

[dfresh96]

had a mallard hit my windshield not long ago, luckily no damage to my truck....as a kid we had a bat fly into windshield as well....

[6x6in6]

Picked off a rooster just east of Royal City back in the '80's in my Chevy 1/2 ton in March.
Took out the drivers side wiper and the windshield.  That was a wind in your face ride back to the west side.

[lostbackpacker]

I hit a small flock of little finches Sunday coming home from Canada.  Had one stick in the grill, my son thought that was hilarious. 

[cwuwildcat]

I took out a pheasant with the grill of a 69 El Camino, when I was in High School.  It decided to flush from my dads field while I was driving by.  It felt like I drove into a bag of cement. Thud!

[GUscottie]

hit 3 of 4 pheasants that jumped out of the brush on the side of the road near Connell, back in the day. One landed in the bed of the truck.

[h2ofowlr]

I see birds getting hit frequently.  Most of the time it is hawks.  You see them drop on critters in the median then try taking off with them and get nailed as they fly across the lanes trying to get elevation.
I will start seeing lots of dead ducks on HWY 20 between I-5 and  Anacortes as they start breeding.  They get stupid chasing each other from the fields and will be a foot off the Hwy at times.

[REHJWA]

Was flying NOE along a river in Korea and flushed a flock of ducks with a H-60...Luckily no damage to the helicopter but did have to flush the engines and was cleaning feathers for over a month during preflight inspections....

[Bigluke1981]

About 6-7 years ago I was going south on us 97 between chelan and wenatchee. It was summer and I had the window rolled down in my explorer. I was doing 60-65 when a covey of quail took off out of a orchard across the road to the river. All but one bird made it across in front of me. The one slow bird in the back happened to time it perfectly and flew right in through my window and ended up smacking the passenger side window that was rolled up I hit the breaks as I just had a streak of feathers flash in front of my face and I thought for sure he was dead but nope could not be that lucky. That little guy started flying and flapping all over the front of the car and to make matters worse my lab Myah was in the back seat and she was going crazy trying to catch it. I am lucky I did not wreck. I managed to get to the side of the road and roll the windows down and he took off. The whole thing happened so fast that both me and the dog just sat there on the side of the road looking at each other like "did that just happen".

[wrangler]

Thats funny I saw the carcases yesterday in the right lane/ shoulder and thought "what in the hell"? Musta just missed the action

[Fl0und3rz]

I had a little tweety bird commit suicide by flying right into the side window of our non-moving car.  It was the weirdest thing.  Reminded me of the Seinfeld Bad Breaker Upper episode.

[metlhead]

I seem to be a bird magnet when driving. I've had three seperate birds come In the driver window. I had a hen mallard take the passenger mirror off my toyota, a golden eagle in NM rolled up over my mustang as it dove for a dead pronghorn roadside, and quite a few seagulls that I was sure would get up coming into Illwaco in the fog. Didn't kill any of them. Try herding an eagle into an interstate median. That thing was bigger than a turkey and not happy.

[206]

Years ago my wife was driving south of Moses on hwy 17, when a goose that someone shot in the fields slammed down on her car.

I got nailed in the shoulder by a goose that I shot.  Knocked me off my feet and I was in shock. 

[Special T]

I hit a dove just right on my dodge on hwy 17 just N of coulee city. broke its back and it rode on the edge of my hood till i got a stop sign at bridgeport.

[206]

A deer ran into the side of my truck when I was driving to go deer hunting.

Wife and I driving Pinto Ridge road at O'dark 30 going deer hunting.  Heading down the hill by Summer Falls, I am cautious because I have seen deer on the road here a lot and it is very dark.  Sure enough.  There they are.  I slow down but could not stop.  There was none on the other lane so I swerve over there probably going about 25mph now.  I watched one bolt at the last second INTO the side of my truck which made a small dent in the door.  I pulled over and didn't see a doe on the road, so she lived - I think.

[pianoman9701]

A friend of mine's brother hit a Canada in the middle of the night. He was bass fishing and going across Castaic Lake in the middle of the night at full power and he hit the goose with his face. The guys spent months in the hospital - intensive care, then reconstructive surgery. What a mess.

[jgoetz]

Seen 2 honkers get smoked by aircraft.  First one the thing went right through the windshield and landed (dead) in the back seat.  The second one my roommate was on final approach and it destroyed the empennage (tail section) of the aircraft he was flying.  Also have seen the effects of a plane hitting a coyote and a deer.  Also a blue heron.