I have a stalker

[s7ephanie]

There is a road i often ride along, and lately there has been this huge buzzard type bird that swoops over me and then follows me a while, i'm sure its just waiting for me to keel over so it can eat me
Its a vulture in disquise !

 

[Sara_H]

Oooh scary. My dog once found what he thought was a dead magpie in the woods. When he picked it up it went all squawky and flappy, at which point he nearly poo'd his proverbial pants and dropped it and did a runner.
Magpies family were not happy though, they followed us home swooping at us (about a 10 minute walk) and then sat on my roof for an hour making that machine gun noise!

I was a bit scared!

 

[Hacienda71]

There have been cases where buzzards have attacked cyclists. In this instance merits of helmet protection for crashes aside you might want to wear one until the bird calms down. You don't want talons in your head.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6688087.stm

http://road.cc/content/news/85854-riding-scotland-beware-buzzards

 

[s7ephanie]

There have been cases where buzzards have attacked cyclists. In this instance merits of helmet protection for crashes aside you might want to wear one until the bird calms down. You don't want talons in your head.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6688087.stm

http://road.cc/content/news/85854-riding-scotland-beware-buzzards

might have to take a different route !! scary

 

[Poacher]

Buzzards are becoming bolder - one flew low over me today on Carlton Hill, a heavily built-up area of E Nottingham.

Actually, @s7ephanie, in central/southern France, it's quite possibly a genuine vulture that has its eye on you. Black Vultures tend to stick S of the Pyrennees, Lammergeiers and Egyptian Vultures rarely venture much further N than those mountains, but Griffon Vultures have been known to wander up to the Massif Central and beyond..........................

 

[coffeejo]

I used to walk a mile across the fields to get the school bus and almost every day was accompanied by the buzzards. It was great.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Well, beats being followed by foxes, that's what I usually get at night!