Mayer Dubinsky went looking for twigs and found a helicopter.

"I saw this bright-colored object amongst the leaves," he said Friday.

In a small patch of woods behind his Hackettstown home on Helmsmill Road, he went searching for sticks to help grill his turkey on Thanksgiving.

As he crunched leaves and stomped sticks he came upon a hobbyist's remote controlled orange and black helicopter.

"Must have blown off course and must be remote controlled," he wrote on the community site, Hackettstownlife.com.

Dubinsky said the owner has yet to come forward.

The helicopter runs on a rechargeable battery and is "somewhere between the little ones you can buy at Kohl's and the gas-powered toys flown by the R/C club," he wrote.

"It has to be somebody really close by. It doesn't fly far," he added.

He doesn't think it belongs to the Top O' New Jersey R/C Club, which is on Kinny Road, because it's too far from their flying field.

His 9-year-old son, Ethan, fell in love with it.

"We want to get it flying again," Dubinsky said.

His son is "hoping we don't find the owner, but he hopes we do too," he said.