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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kr236rk" data-source="post: 1748422" data-attributes="member: 83951">yes of coursewild animals find it very difficult to weigh up fast moving vehicles - minus car the bird's trajectory would have brought it onto the hard shoulder, it may have equally been sucked into the slipstream of the car with the effect of momentarily glueing it to the car's roof perhaps? i just don't know - if the slipsteam was to blame the bird made a remarkable (lucky) recovery then; the other bird may have been startled to see its mate whirring around on the car and flown on instead of alighting onto the hard shoulder, if that's where they'd been suddenly attracted to?thanksRic</blockquote>