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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deborah4" data-source="post: 1748325" data-attributes="member: 29880">Has it occurred to you that the bird wasn't ''harassing'' the car but had actually (from a distance while circling above) seen some carrion on the road or a small mammal crossing it?  You could easily have missed spotting it if your own eyes were on the birds at the time (and the cars ahead/behind of course!) rather than the surface of the road just in front of you.   So in fact, the alternative scenario could be that the car was 'harassing'' the BoP and what resulted was a near miss by the car.  (This would have resulted in fast agile avoidance technique from either species)  I've seen many dead carrion eaters on the roads, including recently a dead Kite.  They don't always get the timing right or indeed have their eyes on the cars when focused on carrion/prey.Could have been Red Kite or Buzzard (depending on the shape of the tail!)</blockquote>