A Brewer woman is recovering after being accidentally shot in the knee Saturday afternoon by a member of her bird hunting party in the northern Maine town of Hamlin, wardens said.

Amber Oaks, 31, was in a party of six people who were in a line in two ATVs and two side-by-sides. She was a passenger in the rear side-by-side vehicle being driven by 31-year-old Danielle Fernald of Freeport, according to a news release from the Maine Warden Service.

The ATV driver leading the party saw a bird and went into the woods to try to shoot it. Fernald exited the side-by-side and reached in to grab her loaded shotgun. She bumped the butt against the vehicle’s roll cage, leading her hand to hit the trigger.

Birdshot struck Oaks in the knee. She was taken by ambulance to Cary Medical Center in Caribou,

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