Heartless Bird Killer Vs. Expensive Ticket

I was about 5 minutes from work this morning and these 2 birds were just chilling in the road right in front of the green traffic light, which I was not about to miss. So I tried to slow down as much as I could without missing that green light and backing up traffic behind me. I gave the birds plenty of time to move out of the way and one of them did, but the other one refused to move and I refused to slow down anymore that I already had. So inevitably I killed a bird. I felt the thud on my front bumper when I hit it. I immediately thought "Oh no! I'm a bird killer!" As soon as I got to work I texted my younger sister and informed her of what I had just done. She was very amused by this and ceased the opportunity to make me feel guilty by telling me about an episode of New Girl where Jess stops for some birds. After rubbing it in my face that Jess would stop for birds, she also added that she received an $800 ticket for not running over a few birds. Maybe I'm just a heartless bird killer, but an $800 ticket just doesn't seem worth it to me to save a bird, especially when I gave it plenty of time to fly out of my way! Needless to say I am very relieved that I dodged an $800 ticket, even if I did kill a bird in the process.