Bet'cha Haven't Seen This Before...

[Big Skyz]

I've spent a lot of time outdoors and have never seen anything like this before. I doubt I ever will. It sure could have ended much worse! This is definitely worth taking a look at.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE0Q904gtMI&feature=player_embedded

[jb]

WOW, that's scary, big bird to pick up that toddler and lift him that far off the ground.
My biggest fear is our dogs. In the winter I usually go outside with them. We get snow owls down here and our dogs are small enought to temp one of them.
Would have no problem blasting one of those great birds if I had to.

[BarryBobPosthole]

My sister had a jack russell once that got attacked twice by an owl that hung around her house. He survived both. He also got struck by lightning and survived that too. He eventually got run over by a car and sadly didn't make it through that. The dog's name was Lucky.

I've also heard of duck hunters that get attacked by hawks and eagles in their blinds although its never happened to me. We have had a few flybys from eagles but not an outright attack.

BKB

[Big Skyz]

It's fairly common for predator hunters/callers to get attacked by raptor's but it's not common to see one try to carry a person off.

[Chicken Dinner]

Man, that's messed up. While never attacked by a raptor, I've had a few close up encounters that were awful cool. I once had a huge owl swoop down and go after (flared away at the last second when it got close to the boat) a white buzz bait I was fishing. Another time I had an Osprey actually grab a hickory shad I was reeling in. He eventually let go and I reeled him in and he had talon marks down his sides. Man, that bird looked pissed when I released that fish. Another time I had a Red Tail Hawk snatch a squirrel that was bout 20' feet away from me.

Good stuff.

[BarryBobPosthole]

They're not raptors, but Keith and I were fishing one day and I had kingfisher dive from the top of a tree and snatch a lure I was working about a foot or so under the water. He picked it up and tried to make off with it and dropped it when he got up about ten feet or so with it. The funny part was, on the very next cast he did exactly the same thing again. I imagine they get so locked in on their quarry that they lose perspective of it.

BKB

[Buckrub]

Dang, Hank.

Have you considered changing underwear, or using deodorant?

[Chicken Dinner]

My Indian name is, "Soars with Raptors"...

[hotshot]

I was deer hunting in a large bulldozed brushpile, Think Tree stand but 30 feet wide...
Scratched my knee with my hand. Looked up to see a Barn Owl hovering about me. Whenmy whole body flinched, the owl seemed very suprised. This was archery season-full camo. IT matched.

[BarryBobPosthole]

So.....I just read where this video was a fake. Coulda fooled me.

BKB

[Buckrub]

ALL videos are fake.

Well, except for that video Mrs. Claus made for Santa that he wasn't supposed to watch on the Sleigh...........I bet that's real.

[HideHunter]

I only saw it once and that was the first thing that popped into my head.

[Big Muddy]

Yep, the video made the nat'l evening news, and it was declared a fake.

Still, it is certainly possible....several years ago, we lost a puppy to a red-tailed hawk.

[jb]

Very well done by a bunch of kids.

[Bwana]

Few years back there was a bald eagle that swooped down and took a yapper dog off of a sandbar in south Bismarck while the family was taking a stroll.

[HideHunter]

Very well done by a bunch of kids.

I agree. Very cool.

[FooBang]

It was posted from Montreal. Each year, the university assigns a "fool the internet" type project. Last year was an escaped penguin. Don't believe nuthin' out of Montreal..

--Foo