That sounds familiar! Last winter, I saw the first Blue Grouse of the year
while crossing Steven's Pass: it spooked up and slammed right into my bumper.
That put an unfortunate little asterisk on the daily list.

Regards
Christine Vadai
Mill Creek, WA
christinevadai at sprynet.com

Maureen Ellis wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> While jeeping around southern Utah over this past weekend, I saw my
> first Common Poorwill. We were driving along the Colorado River at dusk
> just a tad north of Moab when a hapless Poorwill spooked up from the side
> of the road and terminally pancaked itself against our windshied. It was
> a perfect textbook speciman, most likely from this year's hatch from the
> freshness of the plumage, a beautiful bird. Bummer way to see one!
> Otherwise cheers to all, me2
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