Had a run in with a pheasant...

Crikey, that must have been a shock! Glad you weren't badly hurt, that could have been a lot worse.

Shitt the bed.Glad your ok but on a lighter note I hope that birds now plucked and in the pot!
Years ago round here a car hit a dear and chucked it up over the roof.It went throw the windscreen of the van behind killing the two people in the front.
Do you normally get birds chucking themselves at you?

Holy curse word... That's just mental...!!!

I am pleased that you weren't more seriously hurt, a big old vulture like that could've knocked you clean our sir!

As all the others have said that bird needs to be cooked and eaten in honour of your 'ye olde' windscreen...

Really fancy a bit of game bird now.

Damn! Glad your OK matey. Could have been a lot worse.

I had an owl hit my corsa years ago. Doing about 60 and it flew straight into the passanger door. Pulled over and there was a massive dent in passanger door. The owl flapped around in the road for a bit and flew off. Git.

Got your Sunday roast sorted though

I had two pigeons do that within 3 miles a month or two back. as you say, they always fly off as the last minute so I don't bother braking for them. neither of these did

makes quite a mess/cloud of feathers when youre in a lupo with about 3" ground clearance.

october is silly season for pheasants. the season starts on the first, so all of this years birds will have just been released, so have no car/road sense at all, cos theyve never seen one before. I had half a dozen standing together in the road in front of me on the way in this morning, with no effort to move.

I once ran over the same pheasant twice in my vw fastback. it flew out of a hedge across the road in front of me at bonnet height, bounced off the peak of the bonnet so hard it went 6 foot forwards, then I hit it again with the passenger headlight!

the best(worst) bird/car interface ive even seen though happened to my uncle, who is ironically, a gamekeeper. he hit a french partridge head-on that flew out of a field next to the road near my parents house at 2ft off the floor, as they're a ground bird. he was doing 75-ish, plus the speed of the bird. he was driving a w126 SEC merc. it went straight through the grille and the rad leaving a clear fist-sized hole, hit the fan (removing all skin, feathers and quite a lot of blood and distributing them all over the inside of the hot engine bay, so they instantly baked on) then the remains of the bird embedded ltself between the block and the (hot) exhaust manifold and cooked itself!

it took him 5 garages to find someone who would even consider fixing it, and understandably he had to pay a fair bit over the odds to get em to do it......

Keep looking at these pictures, amazed that a foot one way and that coulda been a pheasant KO punch.....make sure you get rid of all that glass too, effin horrible when you get tiny pieces under the skin!!

My word you where lucky.
Just be thankfull it was not a wild boar as where I live they are a deadly risk, just imagine what 100 kilos of wild pig would have done to you and your mini,
Glad you are okay.
I have a nice recipe if you need it ,pheasant in red wine gravy!

I hit a fox once in a Mk2 Fiesta diesel at about 90. Made one hell of a mess, plus I had to pull the steaming remains off the towing-eye. Not pleasant!