Managed to find my drone after a couple, of days searching. Caught the culprit on camera
Videohopefully you had refresh?
I do. Replacement is on the way already.
Judging by the shadow, it looks like an Avata. They're usually pretty rugged. You can buy replacement shells pretty cheap, and they make metal bumper lens guards for it that keep the camera gimbal from getting bumped when you crash.
Ouch. What kind of bird is that? What drone?
Looks like a Red Tailed Hawk.
They're actually the source of the iconic eagle "Screeeeeeech"
Eagles don't actually screech.
Can confirm. This fella was circling me screeching non stop as I searched for his kill.
Ahh, so you were harassing the wildlife. Got it.
Per the evidence OP is the wildlife being harassed.
Yes good call, he's flying around wildlife habitat searching for their kill and somehow HE is the victim š
The drone was the kill.
He was flying his drone looking for his drone? Do you have a brain?
Why the hostility?
The falcon took out the drone. He was walking around looking to recover his property. Reread the thread.
That person is severely confused.
Are you thick? No, I wasn't harassing wildlife, unless you consider flying a drone any time to be harassing wildlife. I didn't know the hawk was around until it took my drone down.
Your phrasing made it sound like you were searching for the hawkās prey with your drone. Apologies if that wasnāt the case.
Regardless you WERE harassing the hawk. Maybe not on purpose, but the hawk attacked your drone specifically because it felt threatened. Unintentional harassment is still harassment. You fucked up, and I hope you learned a lesson about interacting with natural landscapes.
Well, I got my answer to whether youāre thick or not.Ā
This is a falcon not a red hawk, some form of peregrine i believe, your lucky he didnāt dive bomb you, ur drone wouldāve been broken in half
My opinion I think itās too small for a red tail and not the right under pattern. Not enough brown in the neck feathers and beak shape looks like a falcon. I think itās a peregrine falcon. Op what region were u flying in?
Not totally sure on the bird. I have a book of birds in my area. I'll check with it and get back. It's an Avata 2.
Cool. So, no problems flying the Avata 2 then?! Maybe I should grab one.
None at all. Love it!Ā
Yep Prairie Falcon! OP all the markings are wrong for Red-tailed including the body, wings, and face
Dude wtf, new fear unlocked. I never thought about it before, but if a peregrine falcon decides to dive bomb you at 240mph/ 390kmh, weighing 3lbās. This is what ChatGPT had to say because idk how to calculate the force of impact.
F=1.36 kgĆ9.81 m/s 2 Ć25=334.86 N
This calculation gives us an estimate of the force a peregrine falcon might exert during a high-speed dive when striking an object. Keep in mind that this is a rough estimate and the actual force of impact could vary based on several factors, including the angle of impact and the specific characteristics of the collision. If you have more precise details about the collision, such as the time or distance over which the impact occurs, we could provide a more accurate calculation.
Tbh idk what it all means but Iām pretty sure if one decides to kamikaze you in the head itās game over.
I donāt think a 3 pound bird could exert 334 N more than once.
Hence my strategic use of the word ākamikazeā.
I now have a favorite bird. Who would have thought?
Seriously though, is there any bird more gangster than this?! Plays chicken with something that doesnāt even know itās coming. Damn.
Looks a lot like an osprey in color/pattern on the belly, but I thought they were coastal? The dude doesn't bird.
Looks nothing like an Osprey. Look at the chest markings in the freeze frame. Ospreys eat mostly fish, and are quite effective at snatching them. There arenāt many fish in the desert, or even water for that matter.
The only osprey that you will see in the desert is the military aircraft variety. Usually flying in pairs.
I'm thinking Prairie Falcon.
This is the right answer. They're like three times bigger than a Kestrel
A Tuah Hawk
This got a real stupid laugh out of me
Looks like an American Kestrel
That thing looked huge. I could be wrong though
Peregrine falcon
Also, I didn't realize I had to connect the goggles to my phone via a cable to get the "find my drone" to show me the location. I thought it would update the last flight if it were connected wirelessly, which made me believe the app failed me. Nope! Once I got that sorted I was able to find the drone pretty quickly.
Yeah, I learned that the hard way too. Last video I had showed a flock of turkey vultures launching off a roosting tree into my drone. Literally my first day of flying.
Shithawks randy
Big dirty shithawks
Lahey is up to something guys he keeps talkin about shit birds and jail
He was like Nah bro not today!!
Not in my Air Space!!
HaHaHaHaHaHa!!! Thanks for the laugh!!
Happy cake day
Worth it, love the video.
Totally worth it. $49 and DJI has sent me out a new replacement.
Hi there, sorry about the crash. We are glad that you retrieved your drone successfully. Please check whether the appearance and performance of the aircraft are still good. If necessary, you could send back to us for a comprehensive checking to ensure your future use. Thanks.
Went out with some sick footage at least š
are birds attacking a drone more common than you think?
If I take off at my house a big Bald Eagle always shows up to check things out. He's never attacked, but doesn't seem pleased either.Ā
Very common, the buzzards in my area are always scheming and plotting when I go up
I think so. Just a quick google search showed me plenty of instances of it happening. We are in their domain after all.
"Peace was never an option"
Great win for mother nature
Yeah Mother Nature doesnāt mess around. Weāre in her house.Ā
Lucky dude. Mine is still stuck on a 15m tall tree which isn't really climbable.
Birds and trees. Who doesn't love them.
Damn. I helped a friend get a drone out of a similarly tall tree. What we did was take a very long string, maybe 100m or so, tied a rock to it and hucked it over the branch. Then we could shake the branch until it fell down. Took a long time to actually get it over the right branch but it worked.Ā
That's an interesting idea. Glad, it worked!
I will search for another way. Would be a pity if my Cinelog 25 v2 O3 stays up there, but well, shit happens and it's been my fault, so, at least I learned something this day. ;-)
A wrist rocket slingshot, and a fishing reel is the main state of any drone rescue kit
Just call this dude, heāll rescue it. https://youtu.be/ffEYqGGYXRk?si=LCFiiRiQTzhS3JHP
Thanks! I'll give it a try, after this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8iBdJHSOg and Superman failed.
That is absolutely bad ass.. sorry about your drone
Dude that's a frickin peregrine falcon! You can tell by the pattern.
I put Velcro on my drones and Velcro on a tile so I can make the tile cherp when I get close enough to activate it. Small bit of insurance.
Use an AirTag. Good bt range and has access to Appleās find my network
I don't use apple and last I had checked they only worked with apple phones.
That is correct. If you are an Android user, they make their own tags that work basically in the same way.
So whats the difference between a tile and an "android air tag"?
This article covers it nicely.
Tile is generic- it can work for both platforms. Air Tags are platform specific. Android also makes tags that are exclusive for their platform. If you want to use both, it seems like Tiles are the way to go.
Apple made it for android users so if there is an AirTag around them for I think 20 minutes, the android phone would be able to ping it. It was designed like that so if an android user was being stalked w/ an AirTag, they could find it and dispose of it or hand it over to Apple. Sadly, it doesn't work the best for finding lost drones.
Tile was the first company to do a network thing where other people's phones could detect and relay the location of your tracker. The problem was the smallish number of people with the Tile app on their phone, and that it had to have been run recently enough to still be in the background (they sued Apple over that last part).
Apple expanded this in a very Apple way by using everyone's iPhone as part of the tracking network, making it likely that an airtag could be tracked almost constantly in sufficiently populated areas.
Last year Google announced the same thing, and released a spec for third party tracking devices to use the network, including Tile which was mentioned specifically. The system came online earlier this year, and Tile announced that they were actually not going to be making a compatible tracker, because reasons.
For your application it probably depends on where you're flying. If you go down in an urban area a Find My Device tracker would probably work best. If you're in the wilderness, I'd bet Tiles generally have better local range, as they've been at it awhile and are optimized for that.
Yeah I am thinking of grabbing a pebblebee for this! I think they have like a 300 foot bluetooth range or something.
I mainly got it because when I got the avata I had heard people were having issues with the batteries falling out on crashes. So I used the tile to ensure I would be able to recover any wreckage, like my Black box. Did have one gnarly crash with my avata where I hit the ground 30mph or more. Totaled it.
I've heard that about the Avata 1 as well. This is the Avata 2 and the battery stayed in even though it hit the ground/rocks and bounced quite a bit!
my drones own "turn on beep" function allowed me to find mine in the tree I couldn't find it in. Took some work and taping two extendable poles and attacking from different levels for me to finally free it.
Yeah the avata has that feature but that feature doesn't work if the battery falls out.
makes me think i need to put an apple air tag on my drone...
wait... probably wouldn't work considering there won't be an apple device in range...
If you have an Apple device itāll work. Good bt range
The precision is crazy
Great still! š¦
What frame rate were you filming in? Are you able to do a slow mo of this event? That would make for a sick one of a kind shot!
I was filming in 4k 100 FPS. I do have a slow mo version of it. https://youtu.be/agZ19Ekn0gM
Dude thats so sick
You got hawk-tuad
Ngl that picture goes hard af
Right? The entire experience was worth that picture alone.
bummer that the bird took it out of the sky, but for fucks sake that is badass....
Definitely frame that shot
What list did the government put you on to send an attack surveillance drone at you?
lol I made this same exact joke to my family.Ā
Thatās 100% a peregrine falcon.
This could have been a great opportunity for a mid-air dogfight, it looks like you lost way before even began.
That's a falcon. The markings on its face are the giveaway.
That's a pretty dope picture you got there. š
I recently had a seagull try to attack my little baby mini 3 , it dived for it within 1 meter circled and came back again , screeching away whilst at it. That was terrifying. At least this bird didn't even give you a chance to be worried , just instant pain. Glad you found it
i was hoping for that tv-show failure chime ...
That chicken looks committed and proud of itself
That's some interesting land, where is it?
I have a mating pair of red tail hawks with 2 juvenile hawks hunting in packs and living on my property right now. I am always worried about this when I fly. So far so good.
I agree with other comments though, not a retail hawk in video. Awesome video though.
FYI I have an external remote ID module that I Velcro to the drone. It has its own power and I used it to find my DIY quad when I crashed it worked great
Similar plumage to a sparrowhawk
Damn. That Hawk thought it had lunch. Hoping the repairs were minor.
You know what would be cool... It got plenty of cameras for obstacle avoidance already, to detect incoming bird and shut down the rotor instantly as it detect bird, provided its sensing to be high enough over obstacles? Like a 5m dip with agility of racing drone. Would look great at promos, being in harmony with nature n s
Not worth an entire drone but itās dope content. I am always scared to put my mavic mini out in the wild. The fpv not so much, they do not want that smoke.
That birdās a dick.
Birds. Trees. (Especially trees with long branchesā¦theyāre like long fingers just waiting for me to be off my game just a little..) Bodies of water. These habitats are the droneās natural enemies. (Now, imagine me doing my spot-on impression of Carl Saganās narration skills.)
that fucker!
is it just me or is that bird magestic af
Did you get a license and insurance?
Record scratch - 70/80s music starts "It was at this moment, when I realized..."
Damn bird lol
Holy shit i see a real predator there.
Those birds are keeping secrets
Look at its flight path and mid air maneuverability! So fast and precise itās a beautiful thing to watch
That's what RID is good for. You always know where you can find your drone.
WTF is a Kilometerāļøāļø š¦ šŗšø RAHHHHH!
There's some cracks in the frame and a crack in one of the motor mounts. :(
Edit: Slomo version if anyone is interested: https://youtu.be/agZ19Ekn0gM