Hi Rod, I have exactly the same experience all the time when I drive down the narrow road from my house. It always seems to be a song sparrow, and it jumps out of some low evergreen bushes alongside the road and creek and takes a low flight right in front of me. Like you, I am fearful of hitting it, but I don't think we have "intercepted yet"!! The name for this behavior is "Dare You". Cheers, Joan of Art and Nature in Pike Co. _____ Am I imagining this? Certainly this doesn't happen to me alone. Is there a name for this behavior? Thank you for enlightening me, Rod Botkins Jefferson Co.