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A large raptor attacks my remote controlled eagle. I barely get away by making quick dives until some crows come to my rescue!

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Soxiam 6 months ago

so so amazing.
carlos danger 6 months ago

wow, thanks for that
Blake Whitman 6 months ago

Thats some fancy flying. But in all seriousness you should have just used your missiles and wasted the sucker.

Next time.
Blake Whitman 6 months ago

All's fair in love and war my friends... kill or be killed.

yes, it was a joke.
Daniel Hayek 6 months ago

Mother nature doesn't like competition.
Maarten Toner 2 months ago

Hmm... is it me or did vimeo decide to just hire the first four people who commented on this video?
Daniel Hayek 2 months ago

Ha ha, nope. When we find awesome videos we share them with one another hence the pattern.
King Learie 6 months ago

If I was a bird, I would take exception to a petrolium fuelled birdy smelling and noising in my hunting ground.
But what a lucky video capture. Today, everytime I put the camera away the wildlife went nuts so I get it out, they become boring again! Doh! Don't they know I'm a busy human!King!
Jeremy Blencowe 5 months ago

It's electric actually. Not smelly, clean. And relatively quiet. :)
Todd Wellington 6 months ago

What camera did you use? that's awesome btw
Billwhit 6 months ago

@ King Learie:Nope, all electric!
Billwhit 6 months ago

This is taken with the VadoHD, thanks for all the compliments. I have a video of the RC eagle from the ground as well called 56" eagle flight.
Thomas Lew 6 months ago

I can't believe you got such a thing like this on video!
Xyc0 6 months ago

Shoooooot haaaaeerrr!
Matthew Brown 6 months ago

SO SO SO SO cool. I always love watching the crows chase off eagles, but this is so much more cool to watch!!
Mattia Santino Merli 6 months ago

Simply UNBELIEVABLE!! You can sell this footage to Discovery or something else!! thanks for sharing this with us!!
Charles Huettner 6 months ago

crows rule
Adam 6 months ago

Looks like an angry mommy eagle..:-)
Billwhit 6 months ago

@ Adam: It's my understanding that bald eagles don't get their yellow beaks and white feathers until they are 4 years old, so I'm pretty sure this is a juvenile bald eagle!
Spencer Kuhnsman 6 months ago

hahahahahaha! that was great1
Speldosa 6 months ago

Did I miss something here? So crows are the natural enemies of raptors? :D
Lucas Groves 5 months ago

yes, i find that fascinating too. but incredibly, we have to sift through a series of brainless exchanges about whether certain posts were intended as jokes. ughh.
reivilo38 6 months ago

wow ! this is dogfight !
jor.G3/cantos 6 months ago

wow!
i thought it was gonna be a joke!
Kevin Dermody 6 months ago

this is epic!
Alex Tang 6 months ago

That's awesome. Though, for the sake of science, if this happens again, you should let the eagle take yours out so we can get good video evidence. :)

Nice job all around.
Dieter Walz 6 months ago

absolutely great! :-)
brewcaster 6 months ago

This made my fucking day. Man vs. Nature, GO!
Brennan L. 6 months ago

Dang, I was expecting a velocoraptor to jump in from out of nowhere...

Maybe I've been watching too much Jurassic Park...

Mad props, anyway.
Owl Medicine 6 months ago

silly wabbit.....raptors don't like remote control!
Jeff 6 months ago

Cool how you froze that bug midair in the last frame.
That would be a scary bird to have attacking your plane......could rip it to shreds!
Ryan Sheehy 6 months ago

aha loved it
Duncan Birnie 6 months ago

Ha ha, awesome. I like the way the crows tried to save your plane, shows they like tech as much as us humans. :p
Eric Thoolen 6 months ago

Wow that was so cool!
crazed mule 6 months ago

Go, little buddy, GO! If you freeze frame at :22 and :33, you can see the head clearly. Fantastic quality for such a little cam. Did you have to do any motion stabilization to the video?
Billwhit 6 months ago

Nope, it's a great little camera. Just need to make sure my propeller is balanced.
Robert-Jon Eckhardt 6 months ago

Wow I can't believe it. Insane!! :D
Naked Nils 6 months ago

AWESOME! :o
AlphaBee6 6 months ago

That was pretty damn cool! Must have been interesting pitching your wits against a born hunter. :-)
Chad Miller 6 months ago

great video!
ADW 6 months ago

Super cool video.

Bald Eagles regularly take gulls, so it might have thought your plane was lunch!

Would have been a bit crunchy though.
Will Dailey 6 months ago

amazing
Brandt Bethune 6 months ago

pretty awesome.

Although it would have been catastrophic for it to happen, the video would have been pretty epic had the eagle attacked and you had the video of the grand tailspin to the ground.
Luke McDonough 6 months ago

So good
Lloyd Allison-Young 6 months ago

Epic.
Kasper Berthelsen 6 months ago

wow. thats pretty awesome!
Deadpixl 6 months ago

Oh wow, that was pretty epic.
rebecca 6 months ago

that was pretty cool!!!!!

:D
Jim Taylor 6 months ago

You should run stabilization on it and post that version or make it available for download so someone else could. Great video!
Simon Donaldson 6 months ago

awesome awesomeness
kamilfasta 6 months ago

ehe ehe :=) perfect. hawk ???
Billwhit 6 months ago

I'm pretty sure it's a juvenile bald eagle, they don't get their white feather until they are 4 years old.
Geraldo Carvalho Jr 6 months ago

Hi my friend !
Wich kind of camera were you using to record this video ? Could you tell me please, the model ?
Tanks...
Billwhit 6 months ago

I am using a VadoHD
Scott Sawyer 6 months ago

That would have been awesome if it would have grabbed hold of it. Great Footage !
Mena 6 months ago

Cool&great video.
☣Christian Morales ™ ✌ 6 months ago

EPIC you should put some action music in it
psymike 6 months ago

Nice!! The question remains why the other bird protected the plane...
Bob Willis 6 months ago

I imagine the crow was protecting it's territory and nesting site from a predator rather than caring about the model plane.
Billwhit 6 months ago

I've actually seen crows attacking Bald Eagles a number of times this summer (always in groups). I find it interesting that they don't care about my model eagle, but the real eagle came after me.
tuhawka 6 months ago

jaja.Is incredible! be coincidence!
greetings!!

byes
R Stewart 6 months ago

That was cool, your "bird" getting hunted.
Robert Owen 6 months ago

Very Cool!
Benjamin Ringoir 6 months ago

really really cool video dude !!! keep them comming
wideEyedPupil 5 months ago

@0:33 two flashes of a string/rope like object in sky behind flight path?!

Poor playback on Dual G5 Mac so can't make it out.
Billwhit 5 months ago

That's my antenna.
Leonard Ray Khan 5 months ago

i must say that was a really cool vid.. not something we see everyday.
Watching the Raptor come in was really cool
amankerstudio 5 months ago

great..creative video...:)
Brian The Great 5 months ago

whoa!!! cool!!!
Trevor Buckley 5 months ago

Awesome video!! Are you running a brushless motor? Also what is the weight of your VadoHD cam? The shop near my house has a Golden Eagle plane. Where/how did you mount your cam(velcro?)
Billwhit 5 months ago

Yes, it's running on a 46 gram brushless outrunner. The VadoHD weighs in at about 3.5 Oz. Velcro would be more elegant, I'm just using a rubber band right now. You can see it here:
rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=12427752&postcount=4
Trevor Sayre 5 months ago

403 Forbidden :(

Edit:

Signed up for an account at rcgroups.com and then found the thread for this video:

rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1063002

You can see the pics of his plane and camera mount there.
Billwhit 5 months ago

Oops, sorry 'bout that. Fixed it above as well.
VJIX Creative 5 months ago

Awesome! The ending make me chuckle *thump* :)
Michiel Pruijssers 5 months ago

This made my day...watched it a couple of times. The ending makes me smile too as it is so abrupt. Very nice vid!
William Bridge 5 months ago

GOD ! That's so amazing and scary kkk!

Amazing shot
David 5 months ago

That was really something. Those birds are amazing, good capture..
CJ Dugan 5 months ago

Nice flying! Those talons were not to be messed with.
Shawn Huber 5 months ago

you should attach a door peep hole to the camera to make it a fisheye
Trevor Sayre 5 months ago

It would weight too much
Smashn Time 5 months ago

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Billwhit 5 months ago

No problem, but you misspelled your blog name in the link.
Smashn Time 5 months ago

Thanks and sorry for the misspell its here - smashn.blogspot.com/ - scroll down for your video

:D
Rachel Czajkowski 5 months ago

Thats really cool!!!!
Grind Universe 5 months ago

Now imagine if Michael Bay see this video, which can happen in the sequence of transformers ...
Billwhit 5 months ago

Please....no.
Ron Horn 5 months ago

Now THAT'S how to clear your six!

RC: 1
Raptor: 0
Abdallah Aberouch 5 months ago

"Eagle 1, Eagle 1, Raptor on your six!!!
Eject!!!!!"
Berge Gazen 5 months ago

That was so fucking cool.
keeno 5 months ago

wow, that's hardcore! Is the eagle just hanging around the area, or did you entice him out with a bit of rabbit hanging off the back of your plane?
Billwhit 5 months ago

I think he has a nest in the area, they protect their hunting grounds.
Steve Richer 29 days ago

Fantastic!!