Hit a pheasant. What animals have you collected?

Killed a fair few things, including a cat unfortunately, best one goes to my mate though. We were driving up to Rockness, playing dead thing (1 point if you spot a dead thing, another point if you name it), mate in the front seat shouted "Dead Thing, Grouse" just as the grouse turned round, spotted the car and tried to fly away, smashed a headlight completely and basically exploded, feathers everywhere.
 
Nothing then two pheasants in the space of two weeks when visiting a site in the middle of the forest of Bowland. One went right under the middle of the van and hit the underside, the other impacted with the bumper/wing and launched into a field. Fortunatly they are shooting them all this week so should be less around next visit!

I nearly hit a sheep on the Evo Triangle, ran into the road and at the very last minute when I was doing a bum clench stop it turned around/decided against it.
 
Reading the new replies it seems I did not mention probably the best road kill I have seen. A colleague at work was travelling along the A47 with his window open, one pigeon went in and nothing coming out again :D
 
Rabbits, pheasants, squirrels (loads), toads, 3 cats, 1 dog and a lamb. All the cats were roadkill I'm afraid (judging by the dance of death viewed from the rear view mirror). The dog was shocked and yelped some but has survived (it was a nieghbours). Dunno about the lamb, it limped off.

Such is life in the hills.
 
With a guy from the Yorkshire meet in the car, I nearly ploughed head on into quite a large sheep, can't remember who but I'm sure he'll pipe up :p

Apart from that, the usual birds and one pheasant.

Manifold cooked pigeon, om nom nom!
 
Oh, I forgot. Does a 14 year old girl count?
It was back in 1994. I was riding my Gpz305 (don't ask) along the Esplanade in Woolacombe when a girl and her mate jumped out in front of me. Smashed fairing, broken levers, twisted leg, broken wrist.
The girl was fine.
 
Rilot said:
Oh, I forgot. Does a 14 year old girl count?
It was back in 1994. I was riding my Gpz305 (don't ask) along the Esplanade in Woolacombe when a girl and her mate jumped out in front of me. Smashed fairing, broken levers, twisted leg, broken wrist.
The girl was fine.
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Does give the saying "smash the pasty" a new twist:p
 
Rilot said:
On Sunday while driving along the A361 in Devon, a female pheasant decided to cross the road without obeying the green cross code. I hit it at 60mph and it exploded in a puff of feathers. No damage to the car other than a small splat where it's head hit the lower bumper.
In the past I've hit a fox and badger. Fox got picked up by the front right wheel and got jammed inside the wheel arch. That was fun to clean.

What animals have you hit in the past? 5 internets for the most bizarre.
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A dog, King charles spaniel I believe, a Racoon (in Canada), a Rook, several pigeons and a magpie.
 
Only a duck. I was driving along a road in Lymm which is right next to a large river, the duck was trying to get over to that. She was on the pavement and standing still, I thought "errr, whatever you do, don't jump out now", literally as soon as I was within 2-3 metres it lept forwards to make a run for the water. SMACK, no damage but a huge thud straight into the bumper with feathers everywhere. Later on in the day I drove back on the same route and saw no body of it, so either it was moved by someone or it somehow survived.

Almost got a blackbird the other day in a rather comical fashion. My wife was driving down a road in a residential area and I was in the passengers seat, we were chatting away when a blackbird flew down at great speed from a tree to street level right in front of the car. Through some skillful flying it managed to dodge the car and fly in the same direction we were heading about half a metre from our bonnet, you could see it turning its head to look behind it, ducking and weaving but not moving out of the way. At this point I shoved on Iron Maiden - Aces High, pulled down my flight goggles and started making "dakka dakka dakka" sounds. It flew out of the way after a few seconds fortunately.

I made that last bit up ;)
 
A pheasant, a few sparrows or similar, and I'm pretty sure a snake. Thought it was a stick, as I got closer thought "That's not a stick!" just as it went under the wheel and it saw whatever it was curl up in my rear view mirror.

Nearly had a couple of deer in the dark that have jumped out from behind hedges and the like.
 
I bounced a pheasant off my soft-top once. It was like a football.

Also hit a blackbird at, er, 70mph on 2nd-cam once too. That wasn't pretty. Luckily it went into the radiator intake rather than hitting bodywork.
 
Years ago I imported a car from Japan. While waiting for the car to arrive I sold my then car a 205GTi. A mate had broken his leg very badly and couldn't drive his R5 Turbo so he lent me his car for a month while the imported car was being registered.

When I sold the 205 I asked the buyer to drop me at my friends to pick up the R5. Got the R5 and managed to get about 500 yards from my mates house and hit a badger :(

Stopped and had a look, no badger and a huge hole in the bottom corner of the valance. Took the car the next day to a bodyshop who charged me £75 to have it repaired - you couldn't tell anything untowards had happened.

Wasn't until a couple of years later I admitted it to him. :)

Lots of rabbits. Used to work on a converted Mill and the road leading to it used to be covered in rabbit during the season. Gave up avoiding them in the end.
 
I've hit a dog before.

Not sure on the type of dog, just know it was a big one.

Was passing a garage forecourt, was closed for the night and no lights on or anything. There was a car parked on the edge of the forecourt near the road. As i was passing all of a sudden i just saw a large shape appear in front of me, no chance of stopping or avoiding.

I turned round and parked up next to the vehicle, a big 4x4 that was literally packed full of kids and people, the dog was in the back happy as anything, not a scratch on him.

I asked what happened and they told me they'd opened the boot and it ran out.....they did not care at all. My front end was missing a light and had the fixings all broken, but i was so concerned about the dog i forgot to take the details.

First thing the owner said to me was 'Yeah we've just had the Police turn up asking to move'

Was a family of gypsies quite obviously, and i was happy to get out of there.
 
Haven't managed to kill anything yet, but whilst travelling in my previous car down a semi countryside road at about 40mph an owl decided to come out of a tree and smack into the upper part of the windscreen went up into the air and I assume back into the trees where it came from, wasn't a body left in the road.

Dad managed to run over a pigeon on the A11 once, made a lovely popping sound at 70mph with feathers going everywhere.
 
On Saturday I was driving to Wales, Snowdon on the A458 at about 7:30am and was dodging hundreds of pheasants. Unfortunately on one blind bend there must have been about 10-15 in the road and I took out between 3-6 of them. Hard to tell really as there were some many feathers flying behind me.
 
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