A birdie bounced off my window...

Yukon Mike

Yukon Mike

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Actually it didn't bounce of MY window, but I did see it hit a window and die. After supper I was taking Jenny across the road into the bush for a pee and this grouse was walking on the snow being a grouse. She flushed it up and it flew in a wide arc headed for the hills when it hung a sharp left right into my neighbor's window. BAM! Poor little guy.

I knocked on the door, but no one was home, so I scooped it up. I'll have to tell him about it next time I see him. The grouse in the fridge marked CHICKEN FINGERS now.

Mike

PS If any game wardens are reading this, I made it all up. I do that.
 
Now mike you breast it out and cut into thin strips and fry it in maple bacon and enjoy.....

now i see a differance between your grouse and ours or its just the lighting..them green neck feathers here the are a darker royal blue color ill see if i got a pic of one from here....

shermie
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I saw an owl fly right into a window once. It tasted a lot like... oh it got up, staggered around a while and then flew up into a tree.

Tim
 
YUM YUM! I once had a Dove bounce off my picture window right into the talons of a Sharp Shined Hawk. This all happened while I was standing there staring out at nothing. It was awsome. I often stare out looking at nothing and nothing ever happens.
 
A friend had an owl fly in, not into his car window and hit him on the head. NO BS. Bounced off into the back seat and eventually recovered and flew off when he opened the door. Makes you think twice about driving around with your arm out the open window???
 
Years back I was working in the heart of DC, just off 14th St, if I remember right. Well we had bought a bag of popcorn from a street vendor, and proceeded to feed the birds with it on the sidewalk. Guess we were actually baiting because a hawk flew down and nailed one of the pigeons that was about 2 feet from my foot. Coolest thing I have seen. The hawk landed in a tree in a park across the road and all you could see was feathers a flying......
 
Funny bird stories...I love it.

Years ago I was riding in a friend's truck thru our little town of Goodrich, him driving, me on the passenger side. I turned to say something and stopped because there, right outside Dave's window, was a canada goose at window height flying alongside, pacing us. Words wouldnt even come out of my mouth so I hit him and pointed. He turned and did the funniest, most classic double take, as stunned as I was. We watched the bird for maybe 5 seconds and he actually turned and looked at us in the truck before veering off. Thinking he might have been sick or injured, we stopped and went back but never found a sign.

That was 7 or 8 years ago and I still laugh whenever I think of that and the look on Dave's face. We have both said since then that if we hadnt seen it with our own eyes, we would never have believed it.

Funny stuff man.
 
Last Sat my wife and I were driving down a busy city street and stopped at a red light. She swatted me and pointed out the passanger side window. Four big toms grazing in a church flower garden. "My kingdom for a camera at that moment!" I'll bet the gardener blamed the bunnies for that.
 
I once knew a guy who's father had worked for the F&G dept. He'd walked along a railroad track surveying who know's what and found a canada goose nest right in the middle of the tracks. No adult birds were anywhere around, so thinking it abandoned he took the eggs with him and tried incubating them. One hatched, and of course it imediately bonded with the man. Once flying, my friends dad couldn't drive anywhere without that goose flying along near the truck. Around town, to church, you name it, there was that goose honking away.
 
DR... Back in '97 or so my dad and I were driving across the causeway over Lake Manitoba on our way to one of the best duck hunting spots either of us has ever had the good fortune to hunt.

I looked out the passenger side window of the rental car and found myself eye to eye with a bald eagle at 45 mph, maybe eight or ten feet away. He paced us for about a six-count, turned his head to look at me a couple times, then flared up out of view. I felt like lunch!

Later in that same drive we overtook a random steer that had busted through a fence somewhere... trotting down the road like he knew for all the world where he was going... then I felt hungry!
 
Years ago a buddy of mine came around a corner of a road in rural Virginia and was met with quite a surprise. A turkey buzzard was chowing down on a dead opossum in the middle of the road. Well the buzzard took off trying to gain altitude while holding onto his dinner. The problem was he couldnt climb fast enough while holding onto the opossum, sooooooooooo he dropped it .......... and the opossum landed on my buddies open drivers side window. Needlesss to say the opossum exploded causing one hell of a mess. He cleaned and cleaned that car over and over again but really never could get rid of the smell.
 
I was driving on the highway between Sandersville and Milledgeville,Georgia when I saw this turkey vulture making an arc to swing down onto a dead 'possum on the side of the road. His path took him right into my windshield. I ducked because I was sure he was coming right through the glass. He bounced off and started flying across a bean field, then folded up dead and dropped like a rock.
 
Back when I was in college in central Indiana, my roommate and I were headed somewhere or other in his van in the middle of winter. It was a few hours after dark, but not late, and there was fresh wet snow on the ground as we came into the little town of Upland. We both swore that some kid threw a snowball at us that hit the van in the grill, but we couldn't see anybody around. When we stopped, I walked around the front of the van and there was a dead barred owl sticking out of the grill.....
 
You guys are kilin' me! Good stuff. Shermie, we don't see many of the brown ruffies around here, they must get picked off by eagles or something. Those are great shots you got BTW.

Mike
 
i wish i was a quarter of a second faster with the first one bloody digi cameras are so dam slow to capture the moment id have him in the center ,
 
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