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....