A couple of real life hours after you fight the Whiterun dragon I did the Companions bandit mission.

Just South of Whiterun is a bridge.

On the bridge was an old biddy walking along towards the farms.

As I approached she started looking up at the sky.

"Eh up!" I thought. "A Dragon maybe?"

I looked up and sure enough there was a shiney black Dragon circling.

The old biddy put up her dukes before starting to run.

Then Dragon swooped at her. It did that a few times before she died and the Dragon flew off over the mountain.

It totally blanked me! I thought it was supposed to try and get me but it paid me no heed once the old croan was dead.

I was in such a scramble to prepare to fight it that I missed how it killed her as well.

It was weird to say the least.

Ditched, by some ancient bird with a leather face.

How would you feel.

happens to me a lot, ill see a dragon, WANT to fight it, and it will just fly off,

Rejected by a flying dinosaur. I know that feel bro..

happens alot..think i have had at least 6 or 7 dragons just either plain ignore me an go postal on a mudcrab, or merely just fly overhead muttering to itself, now an then ill try run after it to get its attention.personally i enjoy it. they just do their own thing

I had a Dragon who just sat atop a Word Wall by that swampy area, and wouldn't fight me no matter what.

I approached him and he was just sitting there, doing nothing but looking at me and roaring. Then he started flying and circling me but wouldn't attack me no matter what.

Then I finally attacked him first and the combat triggered, but to my surprise I couldn't absorb his soul when I killed him, for some reason...
Friendly dragon perhaps? lol.

I had this happen about half an hour ago.
I travelled to a tower where i knew there was a Dragon but when i arrived at the foot of the mountain, a dynamic Dragon was flying around. I tried doing the Dragonrend shout several times and must have missed it completely, as it flew in circles above the trees and my head, ignoring me and flamed some wolves. Despite me waving my large sword around, it ignored me and just kept flying around my area. I though it was maybe a certain friendly Dragon i had met previously. I climbed up the steep mountain side, saw the original Dragon perched above it`s word wall, did battle with it and claimed it`s soul, then a Dragon Priest with a name, jumped out and proceeded to kick my Warrior`s ass back down the mountain. I ran like a toasted child...to find the crazy dragon still flying about at the foot of the mountain. This time it landed in front of me, still unsure whether it was the friendly one, i walked towards it and promptly got engulfed in flames. I then killed it for charring my armor. Dragons are crazy in this game :blink:

Yeah the Dragons are nuts. We are supposed to beleive they are in the game to try and kill but I reckon its a lie. They do whatever the hell they want to.

AWOL Dragons.