Date: 5/10/25 7:18 pm From: Michael May <2y2m2u...> Subject: [ia-bird] ?bobwhite?
Hello IOUers- Driving on US 20 tonight, just west of the IA 4 exchange, a smaller bird flew up out of the ditch and across the east-bound lanes. It was about the size of a meadowlark, maybe a titch bigger; darker in color with a more rounded body shape (like a light bulb); and it's wing-beats reminded me very much of a meadowlark or a pheasant (fast flapping, pause, fast flapping, pause, etc). Obviously, travelling 70 mph down the highway, that's the best id I could get and the bird would've been long gone had I turned around to track it.
