My sighting/Experience occurred while i was venturing down at the swamp in my back yard when i was a young lad at nine years of age I would always venture around and lived in and around the bush all of my life but nothing prepared me for what i was about to see next!! Off in the distance to my far right horizon i could hear the wish wash sound of wings, it was a very large vulture with a black/blue neck that was more than a foot in length itself with a large kink in the middle, the creature peered down on me as if i looked like a decent meal for it, it swooped right over my head no more than fifty feet away as i could feel the gust of wind that it made, the wingspan over twenty feet its length more than 12, this was a giant bird!! and i have researched vultures and birds for that matter and none of them are supposed to get that large or even near, more like eagle size or larger.......... this was a giant and it has not been seen since... any questions or comments will be appreciated.

The swamp? The Bush? And your living in the north, OK.

Did you get some photos? Its all about photos these days.

HAHA, no! and yes the swamp, the bush and yes i live in the north not very far north
vancouver island BC, it was near the nature conservancy parks where there are still old growth forests to protect wildlife, but i can tell you it is not the same type of vulture as what is supposed to be here! i still have not been able to identify the bird ib bird watcher books becasue it is simply prehistoric, big,black and blue! what vultures are like that?
what canadian carries a camera when there nine and in a swamp killing stuff?

There continues to be reports of huge birds and flying creatures being sighted around the country to this day, such as the sightings of Thunderbirds over Illinois, giant avians from Native American lore that rode the winds and updrafts ahead of moving storms to the so-called Cloud Dragons over Texas, reputed to be fifty-foot wingspan pterosaurs. However physical evidence of those sightings, from photos, to footprints, to feathers, is usually not forthcoming. There is evidence in the fossil record of the huge pterosaurs as well as giant feathered birds capable of flying with wingspans as large as twenty-five feet, and, in relation to the birds, not necessarily that far back in time. As reported in the article presented below by David Rhys the feather size from such a bird is estimated to have been 1.5 meters long (60 inches); and 20 centimeters wide (8 inches). Such a size would make the feather at least five feet long, similar in length to the one described as coming from the American southwest in The Boy and the Giant Feather.

http://sped2work.tripod.com/evidence.html

Hope that helps.

one point is that you were nine,things seem bigger at that age.And you would be amazed how big birds can get really big man!(not that big but still pretty big)

I agree with Jay. Everything looks bigger when you're nine.

yeah id agree with birds being big when your 9