I was in the passenger’s seat in my mom’s Blazer and a bird with a HUGE wingspan flew directly over our car. I made my mom stop so I could see what was going on and to the right of the vehicle and myself, I witnessed the young vulture sitting on a low branch of a tree while the crow was on the branch above him. The young turkey vulture seemed confused and a bit scared but stayed in the same spot on the branch; didn’t move. The crow kept flying AT him and pecking him randomly on his back and tail-feathers. This happened a few times before the young turkey vulture flew off. When he flew off, the crow flew after him and was RIGHT on his tail. They made a quick swoop around the back of our vehicle and I saw that the crow was holding onto one of the young turkey vulture’s tailfeathers. They were gone after that. While this was all going down, there was an older turkey vulture (which my mother and I assumed to be either a sibling or the mother), flying in circles over the area and in the nearby trees on the other side of the road. I have to say, it was quite an incredible experience.

I’m glad I found this thread, though! Gave me some insight as to why this odd occurrence was happening!!

~SamiCakes~

1. It was not busy on I-5 Northbound 50th St exit Seattle. As I drove up the onramp and saw a crow start to flap its wings and rush at a shinny black mole. The mole was forced into my wheel path and I swerved to miss it. As I thought about it I resented being used as an instrument of death by that feathered varmint.

2. My wife and I were driving on a residential street and saw 20 or so crows attacking a single crow. We stopped to watch while four or five of them had the unlucky victim pinned in the gutter against the face of the curb and were savagely pecking at his eyes and head as the other fifteen crows seemed to be cheering the event. It was shocking and my wife said to me “Aren’t you going to do something” at which point I gunned my mighty Suburu Forrester Turbo right at them at which point they dispersed leaving the dazed victim to recover and head in the opposite direction.

3. My little Black Poodle (20 Lbs.) charged a pair of crows in the neighbors front yard, yapping incessantly. The pair of crows easily averted the dog and flew up to the top edge of a work trailer at curbside and seemed to taunt the dog or at least keeping her interested. I was watching from the front door and heard a car speeding down the street toward us. The two crows, timing the instant perfectly flew down to the curb across the street careful to be in dogs view between all the parked cars and started beckoning the dog to come and get them. At this point I ran out and commanded the already charging dog to stop! which she did. Had she not she would be dead now.

North Atlleboro, MA