Close call...

[photo2be]

...to birdstrike.. they tried but missed...

 

[Tarmactripper]

a very close call

 

[GadgetGuy]

...to birdstrike.. they tried but missed...

Looks to me like you merely startled them! Highly unlikely that they were intending to strike you. Looks more like scared pigeons, trying to get out of your way, than attacking hawks!

 

[photo2be]

Looks to me like you merely startled them! Highly unlikely that they were intending to strike you. Looks more like scared pigeons, trying to get out of your way, than attacking hawks!

There was not pigeons and I saw on the screen that they hit the drone. They circled the Mini2 twice and then left.

 

[Ex Coelis]

There was not pigeons and I saw on the screen that they hit the drone. They circled the Mini2 twice and then left.

Those are pigeons.

 

[GadgetGuy]

There was not pigeons and I saw on the screen that they hit the drone. They circled the Mini2 twice and then left.

Where's the footage that shows they hit the drone? Even if they did, it likely wasn't an attack by them, but a mere midair collision, where you ran into them. They aren't used to dodging unpredictable drones! If they circled the drone afterwards, they were only trying to assess why one of their own was attacked by the drone. The fact that they flew away in a flock, after circling the drone, is proof that it was an accident, and not an intentional attack by them. Attacking hawks don't just give up and leave, unless you fly up and away faster than they can chase! Usually, truly attacking birds are defending a nest nearby, and unless you leave the area, they will attack repeatedly until the threat has been completely "neutralized!" Fly safely and avoid scaring the pigeons!

 

[LoudThunder]

.to birdstrike.. they tried but missed...

They appear to be pigeons, and they are not aggressive (unless you placed a pile of birdseed on the Drone… LoL) and as Swedish Pigeons, they are a neutral and non-aligned bird and would never attack offensively… (Double LoL…).

What you ran into was a "collective circular flight pattern" that is a common and spectacular behavior of pigeon flocks.

Even though Pigeons may look and sound like fat, dumb birds because they walk with a bobbin head and their song is described in ornithology journals as a cooing noise, they are not dumb, not fat. They are very strong flyers and they seem to enjoy going for "a spin around the block" and that was probably just what you ran into. I cannot imagine you just flying along and actually just bumping into a pigeon. They know where your drone is and where it is going and unless you did something very abrupt, you are not going to hit a pigeon, not is a pigeon going to hit your drone.