My Adventure of the Day

[lukey]

I thought I'd share this story with my forum friends as it was a good adventure to add to my day.

Driving home from work down Corrigan Road, a magpie next the road decides it's time to fly off right into my way - BANG, no chance to brake I've hit the poor thing. I looked back in my rear vision and don't see any magpie on the road, and it didn't fly off. I thought the things stuck in the front of the car! Pulled into a carpark as soon as I could, and there's the thing not moving and wedged in my front bar, right in there jammed really well. :\ Pics pics:





I thought he's wedged in there pretty good and looks dead enough so no use trying to get him out here, I'll wait til I get home and get it out (before a few snaps of course). I drove home with this magpie sticking in my bar and a few looks from those coming the other way with their windows open. I figured if anyone asked I'd just tell them I like to keep magpies there.

I got home (only about 5-10 minutes down the road) and my neighbor was out so I said hey come check out this roadkill! He came over and thought it was pretty cool/awful and I asked my dad to come out and help. We got a broom to wedge it out but as we start its wing moves. The things alive!

We kept on giving it light pushes out as we didn't want to hurt the thing but eventually it got out, ran towards me (I screamed cos the thing looked like it wanted blood) but then squawked twice and took flight.

A happy ending for me and the magpie. Apart from the poor thing sitting with its head wedged near the radiator for a good 10 minutes at 60km, it still flew off fine with no injuries!

Hope someone found it as entertaining as I did