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Originally Posted by yavenay  I remember this one time, I was taking my previous yorkie Brandie for a walk. It looked like something out of a Stephen King horror movie. It was a cloudy overcast day just like out of a horror movie. Brandie was getting on my nerves wanting to go out so I decided to take her out before it started raining.
As I was leaving the house I looked back at my house and on the roof were the biggest birds of prey I have ever seen in my life. Here's the weird thing. About 3 of them was just standing on the roof with their wings spread out.........had to been at least 5 feet from wing tip to wing tip.
They were just sitting there frozen. They looked like statues.....talk about eerie. Seeing 3 huge vultures with their wings out standing frozen on the roof with an spooking cloudy overcast day was a little disturbing.
Does anyone know why these huge birds will just stand with their wings out? I've only seen that with the birds of prey.......I just always wonder why the do it. It looked spooking as hell |
This story gives me the shivers! I would guess their wings out shows they are in hunting mode, ready to attack the moment they felt their chance was greatest, as they can cover distance alarmingly fast on video I've seen.
Saw Yutube videos and wildlife documentaries on TV before of them attacking with other kids in the yard, dogs, other people, animals in the yard and suddenly that desperate bird is there and knocks the human down and grabs the prey, one being a baby old enough to sit up in the yard on its on, which it dropped after a bit. Don't know if the baby one was legit though it sure looked it but many others was video hunters, hikers, etc., had incidentally taken or taken from a fixed wildlife camera. You can't watch the full attack as I started to do, thinking the prey would be quickly killed and silenced while I looked away but one on a seagull I think it was and the attack seemed to involve the predator bird starting to eat the smaller bird, which was on its back and screaming out the whole time. It was awful! I couldn't bear to watch full on but heard the screams continue and would glance back and the attack was over 1+ minutes before I closed it out and took a quite while to get my mind off of that and I promised not to watch anything else like that again. Horrible.
You can't un-see that ever. Saw them try to take down cougars and wolves with a sudden, unexpected hit and hit bears, humans, big, powerful dogs, whatever. Scary things, those huge birds. And they often have a starving little babies to feed, depending on them, so they are working to maintain their family but horrible to know that has to go on.