I've got two raptor moments to share...
During my first round of rocketry, my great-grandmother on my father's side was still alive, and owned our family's cattle ranch (now owned by actor Patrick Duffy) outside of Eagle Point. I was out in the one of the fields launching rockets near the banks of the Rogue River (Rogue as in loveable rogue, not rouge (red)). This time, the winds were different (or so I thought), and I was confident I wouldn't need to go skinny dipping to recover my rocket again. My first Cherokee-D had survived it's dip in the river and so had I, and now it had dried out enough to try again. Bad Move...
The winds may have been good, but the rocket was flying likely flying on a D11-9 (could have been a D12-7, I forget), and arced over, again, heading for the river. As it descended under parachute, the winds blew it back towards me, and right towards a snag with an osprey's nest in it. The osprey was curious, or just defending it's nest, and came up to investigate. The snag, being what it was, lived up to it's name, and my beloved Cherokee-D ended it's days hanging our under an osprey's nest, until the shock cord finally failed, or the parachute finally came undone. When it was found on the ground some time later, a cow (a mindbogglingly stupid creature that is quite tasty as steak) or several cows, had laid on it, crushing it flat.
After my GG passed away, her youngest son (Gene) demanded that his brother (my grandfather) buy him out of his portion of the inheritance, which he couldn't do. Eventually their fight over the ranch cost it to us, and now as I said, it's owned by Patrick Duffy. Not many in my family (including his children) will talk to Gene.
My 2nd raptor moment was when I was zoobombing (riding my bicycle down from the Zoo, along Hwy 26 in Portland Oregon) to school one day. I once managed to see a large red tailed hawk flying about 20 feet below me in the valley that the highway skirted the edge of. It was flying close to my speed. So, I got some incredible views of the back of the hawk as it was flying alongside me. Had I been prepared for it, I'd have been able to get some really cool nature documentary style video that would have looked like I was following the hawk by air.