Does a video show a real-life scene of two bald eagles walking on wet concrete and leaving construction workers amazed? No, that's not true: The clip contained multiple inconsistencies strongly pointing to AI. For example, the prints left by the birds didn't match either the appearance of their feet or the number of their toes.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on X on November 13, 2025. It opened:
Construction crews at the new Mercier Orchards parking lot outside Blue Ridge say work came to a sudden stop Tuesday morning after two bald eagles landed and walked directly across the freshly poured concrete. Cell phone video shows the birds calmly pacing through the wet cement, leaving deep talon prints before flying off toward the tree line. Workers say they'll have to repour the entire section, but many called it 'worth it for the view.'
This is what a thumbnail from the attached video looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of a post at x.com/Guns_Gadgets.)
The most obvious problem with the clip was the inconsistent number and arrangement of talons seen in the footprints left by the eagles. At first, the number changes from four to five and then back to four:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of a post at x.com/Guns_Gadgets.)
Then, we see the footprints showing three and even two toes:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of a post at x.com/Guns_Gadgets)
The prints didn't even match the appearance of the birds' feet. As seen in the screenshot below, the eagles have three toes pointed forward and one looking backward, but prints show four -- or three, or five -- toes next to each other:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of a post at x.com/Guns_Gadgets.)
Several elements of the background raise questions, too.
The cement truck at the end of the road is not correctly rendered. Images of similar machines (archived here) show that the mixing drum tapers toward the rear of the vehicle. The pouring chutes are in the wrong location as well. Cement trucks pour mixed material out a chute at the rear to allow the truck to back into narrow spots for delivery to the waiting forms:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of a post at x.com/Guns_Gadgets.)
Finally, the angles observed in the video suggest that a camera person also stands on wet concrete and even walks on it closer to the end of the clip, but the construction workers actively commenting on the eagles' behavior somehow "forget" to react to the behavior of the fellow human who would have been ruining their work in the same manner as the birds.
