First person account: Weird act of Nature

[Cappy]

What is your personal, first time, in person, with your own eye or eyes, account of seeing a weird act of nature?

Example: When I was a kid, I was playing in a pile of leafs. I felt something crawling on my arm, I looked and it was a "walking stick" I was fasnicated by this weird bug, as I have never seeing one before.

Example: I was out in the backyard, looked down to what I thought was a rock, but it was actually a horned lizard. I live in Illinois, what the "hey" is it doing here?

Example: I was driving home from work in a bad snow storm. All of a sudden, lightning flashed and thunder boomed. I never thought it was possible, to have lightning and thunder during a heavy snow storm.

 

[Tousi]

One summer when I was in middle school, I mistook a garter snake in the grass for a belt.....

 

[Cappy]

One summer when I was in middle school, I mistook a garter snake in the grass for a belt.....

LoL. What was your reaction?

 

[Tousi]

LoL. What was your reaction?

Well, I grew up on a farm in Minnesota where there's no poisonous snakes. I was about 12 years old and I think I might have been startled but probably not very cuz we were very familiar with the harmless garter snake. I mean we did not chase snakes away or anything like that....

 

[Cappy]

I see plenty of garter snakes around my house. Biggest is around 3ft? But, dang...they startle me no matter what. I know they are good for the envrionment, pest control, etc.

 

[A Nihilist]

I don't know if it's necessarily weird but it amazed me but I saw a crow on a beach flipping a bag of potato chips upside down so that he could eat the chips. It was pretty amazing in how smart that bird is to figure out flipping over the bag.

 

[Tousi]

I don't know if it's necessarily weird but it amazed me but I saw a crow on a beach flipping a bag of potato chips upside down so that he could eat the chips. It was pretty amazing in how smart that bird is to figure out flipping over the bag.

Yup, here in southern CA where I live, there's a grove of walnut trees and when they get ripe, the crows pick them up and fly about 50 or so feet above the street and let the nuts go and they typically crack enough for the crows to go elsewhere to complete the job and "finding gold"....lol

 

[Cappy]

I don't know if it's necessarily weird but it amazed me but I saw a crow on a beach flipping a bag of potato chips upside down so that he could eat the chips. It was pretty amazing in how smart that bird is to figure out flipping over the bag.

Yes, it is weird if its something that you witnessed for the first time. Just, like my examples above. Maybe, weird to you, but not to others, but who cares? That was a point I sorta failed to make.

Crows are smart. I read somewhere that they can live up to 60(?) yrs old. The older you become, the wiser you get.

 

[A Nihilist]

the crows pick them up and fly about 50 or so feet above the street and let the nuts go and they typically crack enough for the crows to go elsewhere to complete the job and "finding gold"....lol

I watched a documentary about crows and one trick they use is street intersections, specifically they wait for cars to run over the nuts. Pretty amazing for a "bird-brained" creature!

 

[Woody]

Speaking of crows. I heard an awful commotion in my backyard. I looked out to see a small hawk pinning another small bird to the ground. The crows began dive bombing the hawk. They startled it enough to make it let go of the little bird and everyone flew off. At the time I was thinking WTF would the crows care if that little bird got picked to shreds? Quite the scene.

 

[Cappy]

Speaking of crows. I heard an awful commotion in my backyard. I looked out to see a small hawk pinning another small bird to the ground. The crows began dive bombing the hawk. They startled it enough to make it let go of the little bird and everyone flew off. At the time I was thinking WTF would the crows care if that little bird got picked to shreds? Quite the scene.

Thats an awsome experience! Weird, but true!

 

[whatdidyousay!]

Thats an awsome experience! Weird, but true!

Maybe that was a baby crow , I saw a crow feeding her babies a few weeks ago. Or the crows may had wanted to eat the small bird .
I see bird fights all the time , once a bird was knocked right of the sky and landed right near my feet.

 

[Cappy]

Last year, I witnessed a Common Grackle (blackbird) eating a sparrow in my front yard. Not swallowing it whole, but breaking it into bite size pieces. I did not see the "kill" or how it happened. It was weird to me.

 

[DeafDucky]

I've seen the thunder/lightening during snow storms/snow falls. I think the last one was in either SC or NC.

About all I got unless i can remember anything else.

 

[LoveBlue]

I've seen the thunder/lightening during snow storms/snow falls. I think the last one was in either SC or NC.

About all I got unless i can remember anything else.

I've heard about the lightening/thunder during snow storms referred to as Thundersnow. I dont recall if I've ever seen/heard it myself.

 

[Cappy]

I've heard about the lightening/thunder during snow storms referred to as Thundersnow. I dont recall if I've ever seen/heard it myself.

Thundersnow. Makes sense. But, never heard that before. I Hv heard of thunderdome, but thats a diff story!

 

[Woody]

When I was a kid we were out fishing in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. An Orca surfaced about 20 feet from our boat and looked right at us. The whole pod went right through dozens of fishing boats. I'm guessing 50 of them. Quite the spectacle.

 

[Cappy]

When I was a kid we were out fishing in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. An Orca surfaced about 20 feet from our boat and looked right at us. The whole pod went right through dozens of fishing boats. I'm guessing 50 of them. Quite the spectacle.

WoW! Did that strike fear in you? It would to me! LoL

 

[Woody]

^A little. Nothing compared to my mom. She was screaming at my dad to get out of there. He was yelling something along the line of it's safer to stay put. Wait. That was quite the spectacle too. Lol.

 

[Cappy]

^A little. Nothing compared to my mom. She was screaming at my dad to get out of there. He was yelling something along the line of it's safer to stay put. Wait. That was quite the spectacle too. Lol.

How big a boat were you all in? I cannot blame Mom for her panic attack.