Honker crash on i90 bridge

[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.