Vehicular Homicide or something

[quakerboy]

Its been a questionable few weeks around here. Today was hopefully icing on the cake, and things will get better from here. I killed today. I didnt mean to. Never done it before, in many years of driving.

Little birdy flew right in front of my car. Came out of nowhere. They like to do that, swoop in and past in front of moving cars. But apparently this one didn't have his timing down cause there was a little thump. I was hoping it was a pine cone, but I didn't see him swoop away as I continued on, so I turned around at the end of the block to go back and check things out. One munched little birdy on the road. Fortunately completely dead, appeared to have gone fully under a tire, so not in pain. How bad of timing does a flying bird have to have to go actually under a tire of a moving vehicle?

In many years of driving, different states, all sorts of conditions, this is my first "roadkill" ever. And I don't feel good about it. I was proud of never having munched anything larger than a bug.