Have you ever seen a nature is metal incident?

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Like where nature is brutal. I have seen a couple recently first one is I saw a bull snake just snatch a bird off the lower part of a tree, I did not actually see it grab the bird but it lunged and then there was one less bird than there was before.

And then the other day, I was inside watching something on T.V and the crows outside got really loud to where it was interfering with me being able to hear the sound of my t.v. So I had to go outside to see what the hell had gotten those crows so riled up. And well a few of them were in the process of murdering a bluejay and seemed like the loud ones were just cheering as if it was a Greek gladiator fight. like 'yes! kill them, kill, kill!' I could not do anything to save the bluejay and even a couple other bluejays flew in at one point to try and help that one, but seems they were a bit too late as that one was already too injured to fly away with them. But yeah it was sad as I had kind of gotten a bit attached to the bluejays here and that could have very well been ones that has come to my porch to get the almods I leave out for them, but it was also very interesting as I have never seen crows cheer on a killing of another animal like that before.

Do any of you have any nature is metal things you have witnessed?

I don't think I've ever personally witnessed anything like that. It sounds awful but also kind of fascinating?

I don't know the expression "nature is metal" so I wasn't sure what the post title meant.

This is a different kind of act of nature, but there was a severe storm here a few months ago and it felt like the house was going to be ripped apart. Lots of very large trees fell just within a block. That was to me an example of nature showing its brutal force.

Yeah I get that, its sort of a joke...like metal music can have some kind of harsh and brutal lyrics and sound, so the idea is nature kind of reminding one of heavy metal music. But you're right it might be a bit hard to understand if you don't get the meaning behind the terminology I have to remember not everyone is a metalhead. So basically have you seen something brutal in nature...may be the better way to word it.

My 30-year-old aunt, a Buddhist who had been an excellent student, ambitious, beautiful, and kind.

Died of pancreatic cancer after long-term chemotherapy.

Interesting, ha ha I remember seeing a hailstorm when for a time me and my boyfriend were living with my brother and other roommates. I was the only one at home at the time...and these giant hailstones were falling, we had a skylight and it broke that and was coming through...so I made sure to move me and my brothers laptops somewhere safe where the hail wasn't getting through. But I could see outside some of the hail looked almost basketball sized and was just smashing things outside, and I was scared a big chunck could come through the skylight and hit me. So after I moved the computers away from the danger zone I was a bit panicky so I called my boyfriend to tell him...'hail from hell is falling and he was able to kind of calm me and just tell me to just stay out from under the skylights till the storm ended...but we still laugh about my wording of hail from hell from time to time. But yeah I was scared the roof woudln't even protect me because it was really big hail.

The same hailstorm also damaged a nearby mall, that had to be entirely shut down for a bit for repairs.

not quite the sort of thing I had in mind, but cancer is maybe a part of nature and it does seem like for some reason at times it targets good people and you know sort of cuts their life short. Like, I am sorry if this is too far but I would rather have had trump get cancer than your nice sounding aunt.

Yeah all the time and I love it

I was in Blackpool (northwest England seaside town) a couple of years ago and I witnessed a seagull literally eating a dead seagull. Tearing away at it it was

He obviously thought no one was watching

I think my bf was traumatised by it because he still talks of the horror of it today

It was pretty gross though to be fair

That sounds pretty terrifying. I was scared when the recent storm hit and hid inside the closet. There were winds up to 100mph. ANd I know something similar will happen again, or worse, it will be a hurricane, which will last a lot longer.

At least the seagull being eaten was already dead. But I think I would have been traumatized by it too.

we don't get hurricanes in Colorado usually; it would be very disturbing if we did get one here...but we can get tornadoes. I have been concerned about that a couple times when it is very hot out with windy and stormy weather since those are good tornado conditions. I think I live close enough to the mountains one probably would not form here it usually is more likely on the east half of colorado, but with all the crazy global warming you never know anymore.

But yeah I live on the top half of a double story apartment building so if a tornado did come too close I'd have to abandon all my things including this computer I am using to get on here...and run down to the nearby park and hide under the bridge where the road crosses the river...not sure that would be the greatest but if a tornado was coming it would probably be safer than my apartment. Not sure of any other better shelter option in that case.

One time I saw a bird lying on the ground either dead or injured and there were three other birds, I think it was one adult and two young ones. A crow then flew down to the bird on the ground and the other three birds flew after the crow making loud noises. It looked like they were trying to protect the other bird even though it was dead. Maybe they were grieving, and didn't want its body taken away by the crow.

Next door I saw a fox the size of a heeler chewing on a dead sheep when a wedgetail landed on the foxes back.
It screamed and ran, while the eagle took over feasting.

If the collective noun for crows is a murder, then every other year in our forest we have a nuclear war of crows.
Thousands of them screaming for weeks. It's like a battle of the Oi bands through a megawatt stack.

I hike a lot. Saw an osprey fly by with a fish already in it's talons once. But not the actual act of it catching the fish.

Never saw murder of that kind among wild creatures. You DO see that if you keep a fish tank. Parent fish eating their babies...so you put the babies in a 'nurse tank' (a cubical net structure to keep the adults away)...which results in the babies eating each other!

And you do see birds 'hitting above their weight class' during breeding season: crows mobbing a big hawk, or crows themselves being pecked by pairs of mocking birds. Because nesting birds need to protect their nests.

Your blue jays might have been stealing eggs, or baby birds, out the nests of the crows.

My mom too. Steve Jobs couldn’t beat Pancreatic Cancer. If money could beat it - he had plenty. My mom died more than 20 years younger than either of her parents.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

1 Corinthians 13:12 KJV

My best college buddy, let's call him Bryan died of cancer on December 30th, 2020. I thought it was covid at first. It turned out to be cancer. He was the sweetest man you'd ever seen. Cancer is a bitter disease.

I once watched a crow teaching one of its fledgelings how to rip a dead moorhen apart. There's the fox who prowls for rats around the bins - every so often you'll hear a shrill, but very brief squeal in the dead of night. Various example of "mobbing" behaviour: usually corvids attacking foxes or owls, but on one occasion it was a tern dive-bombing a heron.