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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana resident says an energy company worker identified the cause of a brief power outage this week as a "deer with wings."

Lee Bridges says she was outside with her dogs around the time the power went out.  A NorthWestern Energy truck pulled up and she asked the driver what caused the problem.

She says he pointed up and said, "Apparently, we've got deer with wings."

Bridges looked up and saw a dead fawn on a power line.

It's unlikely the animal had an accident while trying to make like distant-cousin Rudolph. Bridges suspects that an eagle dropped its prey and couldn't retrieve it.

The lineman who removed the carcass from the power line said he'd never seen anything like it.

PHOTO:   A power company lineman used a pole to remove a young deer carcass from a power line Wednesday in East Missoula, Mont.  The incident caused a brief power outage.  AP Photo/Lee Bridges