AIBU to feel guilty for not stopping a crow?

Was just going to say that. You do not mess with crows, they hold grudges . It would have remembered. Have a google it’s fascinating. They are so clever.

Sorry about the baby blackbirds but this thread is one of the most entertaining I've read in a long time. Especially the poster who suspects some of it is written by crows themselves

Some crows in Japan have been known to drop nuts with shells on roads so the traffic will crush the shells. The crows then fly down to retrieve the nuts. That's not all - some crows then started doing this at pedestrian crossings. They would drop the nuts when the light was red, then waited til the light was green (and the cars had stopped) to go down for the nuts.

Always help out a crow, or at least remain firmly in their side.

@AliceNotInChains yes all true about crows. Crows are fascinating and if your dc ever has to pick an animal to do a report on always pick crows. So many interesting characteristics

In have witnessed a crow tribunal. From inside the house.

Oh yes, nature is so cruel. Not too long ago I witnessed a sparrowhawk murder a blackbird in my garden - it was horrific. It was standing on the poor thing and plucking out its feathers while it was still alive 😪. The blackbird was squawking and making a horrific noise but was completely pinned down unable to move. I did try and shoe the sparrowhawk away - it did hop off the blackbird who was clearly half dead, then grabbed the poor thing and flew off with it in its claws. In hindsight I reflected and thought i shouldn't have intervened purely because it's probably best to let the prey be finished off quickly rather than be left to die slowly. It also probably sounds a bit shallow but I was glad I didn't have the messy aftermath to deal with in my garden

Well you couldn't have saved the baby blackbird even if you had chased the crow off. It wouldn't survive out of the nest unless it was virtually ready to fledge. The only time I have ever felt sorry for a rat was one being dive-bombed by three crows. I didn't hang around to see if it got away but it didn't look like it would.

Never heard of this in nearly ten years living in a rural area. Farmers were much more concerned about unleashed dogs, thieves, and sinkholes on the sheep farm!

Crows are horrible, they peck the eyes out of lambs if they are away from the sheep. Sometimes the lamb is left alive in agony with no options for the farmer. Crofters here have a real problem with them.

Give them some scraps, they like pork! Maybe get them onside. Become buddies

Crows do not forget easily! We have a crow that stalks our garden after once stealing pizza off my child’s plate. Nothing will stop them!

Was probably autobiographical written by a crow being stalked by another crow

The blackbirds were probably very inexperienced, almost certainly raising their first brood. They will learn and build the next nest somewhere more prudent. They still have time this year. The best thing to do to help is grow some lovely thick dense hedging. The crow babies are snuggling up with full tummies. The world is turning as it
should!

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Nature is brutal - it is what it is. I say this as a vegetarian 😆
I was once walking up my street back when I lived in a rural area, birds of prey aplenty there - beautiful. What was not beautiful was one of them dropping the gutted corpse (of a crow actually)! about two meters from me 🙈 Hit the road with a splat, thankfully not on my head.
I know it's sad though, but can't intervene.

You save the baby but starve the crow? No. This is why we're not meant to interfere with nature. It's taken care of itself long before we came along.

Don’t ever mess with a crow. Absolutely they memorize your face hold a grudge and pass this grudge down to the next generation. They are extremely intelligent and if a crow dies they send a tribunal who will walk around the dead bird and determine cause of death.

Even if you had, it would have gone back for them.

It is nature.
I remember being sat on the loo... utterly fascinated by a spider fight going on in the corner. I was a tiny little spider vs a massive house spider. The little spider bit the big one until it was paralysed. it kind of tensed up and stopped moving.

I did once rescue a pigeon from being pecked to death by two seagulls... because seasgulls are assholes. 😆

I got a magpie off my cat - who had obviously bitten off far more than it could handle, as was holding it by one paw as far away from itself as he could, and scared to let go. All the crows and magpies were bombing him.

The magpie was OK and REALLY pissed off, and from that day onwards the magpies have like me, but HATED that cat and used to scold him everytime he went outside.

they left his brother alone though.

Dont mess with the corvids, is all I will say

It's probably starting a thread about you......

It's nature taking it's course. Not nice to watch but crows at this time need to kill other birds because carrion is what their young eat.

A crow killed a pigeon in my garden last week and it was horrible. But I didn't intervene. Why make an enemy of the crow- which is what woukd hapoen - when it is doing what a parent needs to do for it's offspring?

I would have sent it round to my sister’s house.

(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)