Posted on 02/14/2013 5:56:01 AM PST by BerryDingle
Whenever birds fly in front of moving vehicles, usually the bird is the one that loses. But a great horned owl can teach other birds a thing about surviving those situations.
Sonji Coney-Williams was driving Feb. 7 on Florida's Turnpike through Yeehaw Junction when she saw something fly in front of her SUV and heard a smack, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
She continued driving for 150 miles to Plantation, not thinking about the incident, until the next day when someone told her she had a bird trapped in the grill of the sport utility vehicle.
She called the FWC, and Officer Lex Corteguera was dispatched and removed the grill of the SUV to rescue the owl.
Corteguera took the owl, which was alert and responsive, to the South Florida Wildlife Center of the Humane Society in Fort Lauderdale, the commission said.
X-rays did not find any fractures, head trauma or internal injuries. The owl received fluids and pain medications from the veterinary staff.
Veterinarians will re-evaluate the bird Friday. If cleared, the owl will be returned to the Yeehaw Junction area, the commission said.
A big white bird hit the windshield of a van I was driving on the highway once.
SCARED the $#1t out of me.
Happened to me too. Hot sunny day on a flat straight freeway. Half asleep, hypnotized by the bordom.
WHAMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!
I literally started going into shock. My extremities started tingling, I began hyperventilating.
Had to stop and get out of the car to pull myself together.
At least, you are driving a Ford!!
Owlbamacare.
From Wiki:
The junction's name "Yeehaw" comes from the Seminole tribe in origin and means "wolf", referring to wolves that inhabited the area. According to town historians and several original newspaper articles that are displayed at the Desert Inn and Restaurant National Historical site, the town was originally named "Jackass Junction". This name was given to the four-corner site back in the early 1930s, when local ranchers rode on burros to visit the Desert Inn (then the local brothel). As the 1950s approached, the Florida legislature felt that a name change was due in light of the construction of Florida's Turnpike through the center of the community in 1957, resulting in renaming the town to its present-day name.
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