@slewis , welcome to the forum. Although it's not unknown for a bird of prey to attack a human it's pretty rare.
Clearly none of us believe that it's real, or too serious even if it was.
Whilst I appreciate you didn't mean it that way, thanks...
I heard it was a very large bird of prey that tried to actually lift the pilgrim from the trail in a mountain area... local reports say the backback was too heavy... so its seems that the pilgrim was saved by an overweight backpack....lucky...
I'm only here to pipe in to say that on the Baztan there were many hawks in May who were very interested in my white sun hat. They got very close to see whether I might be something delicious... but on apprehending my actual state as a human and...
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