While sitting in a loc on I had a falcon intercept and destroy a smaller bird about 8 ft in front of me. Hit it so hard they went to the ground. Then it flew off with its prize.

Last year I watched a 2ft gray rat snake climb 30 ft to the top of a saw tooth. That was a surprise for sure. Joker went right up the side. No limbs or anything.

We were turkey hunting in South Dakota and saw a Miriam hen that had somehow hung herself in the forked branch of a huge cottonwood tree. She was easy 100 feet in the air hanging by her neck.

I was sitting in a pop up blind on a greenfield one afternoon waiting for a turkey. Heard something rustling around in the leaves behind the blind and joked to myself about how it sounded like a snake. Well a few seconds later I heard it again, but this time it sounded like it was inside the blind. Turned around in my chair to see about a 6ft chicken snake right under the back of my chair. Now I'm not one to be afraid of snakes, I'll usually pick them up and play with them, but when they sneak up on me in a tight spot like that I can't control my reflexes. I jumped up against the far side of the blind and when I freaked out he freaked out. He couldn't figure out how to get back under the blind so he started climbing the wall, all the while with me kicking chairs and turkey vests at him. Finally I just flipped the whole blind over and got out of it while he crawled off through the leaves. I wish there had been a camera in that blind to capture the rodeo and all the cussing that was going on in there.

One time I found a whole gun grown into a tree....

Was hunting a food plot one afternoon and could hear something walking around just on the outskirts but go too dark to see what it was. Decided I was going to sit there until it came out in the plot. I listened to it walking around for at least 30-45 mins and finally had enough so I climbed down. While I'm climbing down I can hear it getting closer to me. I finally hit the ground and get my flashlight out and shine it where the noise was coming from and its a damn emu about 10 yards from me. Scared the s#$^ outta me. Come to find out it belonged to someone up the road and it kept getting out of the pasture so they just let it roam around.

Coolest thing I've seen is a bobcat climb about 25 feet up a tree after a squirrel. The speed at which that joker got up that tree was amazing.

When I was about 6 years old I was at home with my mom and I remember my dad came busting through the door and running for his bedroom. He quickly came back out shucking shells into his old Remington 1100 as he was walking back out the door. About a half hour later he and my uncle showed back up with a dead emu in the back of the truck. Apparently a few had escaped from someones pen and they just said shoot on sight. Well my dad and uncle strung this thing up in the door of our shop and butchered it. I can still remember dad sitting a plate of what looked like sauced up pulled pork on the table and calling it "EMUbecue".

Had 3 woodcocks flush right next to me on Wednesday afternoon. I've killed plenty of Snipe (not in AL), but have never seen a timber doodle. They flew about 20 feet, landed, then just started milling around doing their thing.

Waaaaaaay back in the early 70's got on a Turkey Gobbling his head off.....but he stayed in one spot....for about 2 hours. I got curious and decided I might could sneak up on him...as I was only about 12 years old and Naive!! Snuck up to a friggin' pen with thickets all around it and there was this BIG White SOB-itchin' Turkey!!!! Pissed my whole morning fooling with this Bastige....had no idea anyone was living in that area!!!

Should've shot that bastard (the emu) they eat purty good 😀

Was climbing steep hill chasing a gobbler and heard a stampede of leaves wrestling above me getting louder and louder. I grabbed onto a tree to hold on and look up and 2 big black snakes come flying over the hill in a cork screw manner. Sacred me to death. Read later that’s how they mate.

Couple years before walked up on 2 turtles making out lol.

I'm more wondering what you hunt in the springs woods from a climber? Hmmm

True 🤣

Let me clarify, I was bowhunting a food plot in late October, for deer, when this happened.