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AIBU to feel guilty for not stopping a crow?

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AliceNotInChains · 20/04/2026 09:38

Just seen a crow attacking a black bird nest down our driveway, all the black birds where dive bombing it and it didn’t care, it managed to pull a baby bird out of the nest, crow and baby fell onto driveway and crow was them divebombed by around 7 blackbirds 😱 it was throwing the baby around in the air, it was awful. I stopped watching but I’m assuming it got away with the baby. Now I feel guilty - I could have gone out and stopped it but I didn’t - it’s nature isn’t it 😞 would you have intervened?

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itsmycheese · 20/04/2026 09:53

Don't feel guilty, it's not nice to see up close but as others have said, you can't intervene in things like that.

I did once stop a cat from getting hold of a female blackbird; I noticed her mate fluttering around a bush in our garden. But that was a fat housecat who absolutely didn't need to supplement his diet with wild bird!

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AliceNotInChains · 20/04/2026 09:51

Jesus there is a crow sat on a rooftop now staring directly into my living room … it knows I know … 😂

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Favouritefruits · 20/04/2026 09:46

Oh no! You’ll have that image for life now! I saw a bird get attacked by crow once and the screams have never left me, at the end of the day it’s the circle of life and if the crow hadn’t eaten the baby it would of died.

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AliceNotInChains · 20/04/2026 09:46

Keroppi · 20/04/2026 09:44

No because crows can remember faces and spread this info on to their flock & even descendants (apparently) so it may then have had - and passed on - a grudge towards you 😆
Imagine being divebombed by crows every time you go out to your drive.
I've never heard of similar with blackbirds either

Yeah I’ve been on the receiving end of a crow grudge, the buggers went for me for a whole year after I accidentally pissed them off so this was selfishly another reason I didn’t intervene

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Done2much · 20/04/2026 09:45

Crows are highly intelligent birds but are also predators and distressing though it was for you, there would be nothing you could have done to prevent them attacking the nest

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AliceNotInChains · 20/04/2026 09:44

Thanks everyone, I just feel so guilty. But I know the crow La have a nest nearby so as you say if the crow doesn’t eat - those babies die 😞 I love crows but have never seen this side to them.

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Keroppi · 20/04/2026 09:44

No because crows can remember faces and spread this info on to their flock & even descendants (apparently) so it may then have had - and passed on - a grudge towards you 😆
Imagine being divebombed by crows every time you go out to your drive.
I've never heard of similar with blackbirds either

CrazyCatLady13 · 20/04/2026 09:42

It's nature, the crow would have fed the chicks to its own chicks. It's horrible but nothing you can do.

VillageMilton · 20/04/2026 09:41

YABU. What should a crow do to feed its young? Go to KFC?

As you say - it's nature. It's in balance. Leave it alone.

Spaghettea · 20/04/2026 09:41

I would have watched in horror too and knew I couldn't step in.

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