Curious question about birds?

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Here are a few:

Bird attack

I had my mavic air 2 out this morning at 5am to get some shots of a bridge that crosses the river in the town I live in, I had been up for about 10mins and had moved to a new position for a shot from 320ft when from nowhere 3 oyster catches attacked the drone, as I am still fairly new to the drone world, I was wondering if bird attacks were common place or a rare thing, it scared the crap out if me I know that much, after a shirt panic attack I manged to land the drone OK, but they had damaged o…

Angry Birds

I am working on a year long project covering the construction of my daughter-in-law’s school. I use my Mavic Pro to film the build every few weeks so the school children can create an “our new classrooms” project. I have had some resistance from the neighbours…herring gulls, which display their annoyance by flying nearby however a pair of Oystercatchers have actually tried to physically peck my drone. My question is has anyone encountered such aggression and if so what was the outcome. I am …

Last rites bird strike flight

So I set off this morning determined to fly around the Abbey, something I’ve wanted to do for a while but never had the guts to,with my little 3“ diatone. I knew there was a big chance of it winding up on a roof but having been through at least 8 of this little quads lives already, I felt it was worth a shot… So the flying is rubbish as I was mostly scared witless… But what I wasn’t expecting was the hawk in the final couple of frames. He got off fine I’m sure, the props are tiny and the quad…

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