I went to Hawai'i Island for an overnight trip to take care of some family business. I was set to leave Monday night and after conducting business in Hilo, I drove back up to Volcano. As I was driving up the highway, something light colored laying in the grass alongside the highway caught my eye as I sped by. All I saw were feathers in the deep grass. I immediately felt like I should stop the car and investigate but traffic was moving too quickly and there was no safe place to pull over since the grass and mud would have enveloped my rental car. I drove further away, still thinking if I should go back and check. After a half-mile, I saw a blue plastic potato chip bag on the side of the road roughly where the feathered mass would have been, and it immediately was caught by the wind and took off into the sky. I took that as a sign. As I still drove further and further away, now about a mile and a half away...I saw a small brown bird emerge from a tall tree in front of me and he z