A LANE of the M40 had to be closed yesterday when three geese got onto the carriageway.
The birds were spotted on the motorway between junction 8a for Oxford and junction 9 for Bicester at about 8.30am.
They were reported to Thames Valley Police by seven different motorists, some believing them to be swans.
A spokeswoman for the police said a rolling road block was put in place to help clear them from the road, with some drivers leaving their vehicles to try to shoo them off the road.
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But she added that the birds were eventually removed by the Highways Agency, whose officers arrived and had to close one lane.
By 8.50am the road had reopened and no-one was injured in the incident.
It comes after an emu was hit by a car and killed on Tuesday after it escaped from a garden in Boars Hill.
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