As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Sunday 6 April 2014

Big bird crashes through windshield

CBS News, news source8:21 a.m. EDT April 5, 2014

A woman from Golden, Colorado was driving along Highway 76 when a goose smashed right through her windshield.

(CBS NEWS) ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. - We hear a fair amount these days about birds and planes colliding...but birds and cars?

A woman from Golden, Colo., says she was driving along Highway 76 in Adams County Wednesday when she saw some birds in the distance trying to take flight. Next thing she knew, one of them - a goose - smashed right through her windshield.

According to CBS Denver, state police said Shannon Jergenson did everything right in that moment of crisis - kept her cool, stayed the course, hands on the wheel.

"The bird came up and just went 'bam,' right into my windshield," Jergenson said. "I turned my head and when I opened my eyes the bird was ... its head just kind of fell over."

After the goose wound up impaled on the steering wheel, Jergenson turned her head to stop glass from hitting her face.

"I could barely see because the windshield was mangled," she told CBS Denver.

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