Tower we are going to be in the Hudson

I have an RV9A homebuilt airplane I built. A few years ago I had just left an airport after filling up with gas. I had leveled off and was trimmed out heading to my home base airport about 15 miles away, about 4 miles from the airport I had just left all of a sudden I heard a loud impact< had no idea what it was but looked at the canopy on the passengers side and saw a real mess of a bird of some kind. No telling what it would have sounded like if I had not had a headset on. Got lucky it didn't break the canopy, at 185 mph it splattered that bird pretty good. After landing trying to clean the canopy, that was the greasiest thing I had ever cleaned off a window.