To be scared that I’m still marked by the crows?

[ChoccyOrangeYum]

A couple of years ago I walked the dog on a local field. I know nothing about birds but I was later told it was their breeding season.

Anyway we must have got too close to their nests as they suddenly started flying around irrationally, making a hell of a racket screaming etc and then started dive bombing the dog. The dog thought this was fun so started chasing the crows. All hell broke loose basically and we were suddenly surrounded by crows going mental. We made a quick exit!!

I left it a few days then took the dog back on the field but after speaking to locals about the crows I stayed away from the back of the field (where they’re breeding) and kept dog in lead. As soon as we stepped on the field the noise started up again and the crows appeared and started dive bombing again! There was someone else on the field with a dog who the crows were totally ignoring!

We left and after a bit of research I found that crows remember faces and don’t forgive easily 😬 so we didn’t go back on.

A whole year later we went back on assuming the old crows won’t be there anymore but we were on there 5 minutes before it all started again. These birds are not bothering anyone else on the field, just me!!

Anyway my neighbour has suggested we go for a walk in the field tomorrow morning but I’m shit scared of the birds. Will they still go for me if I don’t have the dog?! Will they ever move on from the incident 2 years ago or am I banned from the field for life?!

I really want a crow friend now

Watching and waiting and oddly invested

We have a family of crows that DH feeds, he just whistles and they come.

He soaks cat crunchies in hot water until soft and scatters them when cooled. They love it.

I'd definitely take treats and let us know how it goes.

Thread of the day!
Really invested in the outcome.

I used to work in McDonald's and we had 2 separate gangs of birds that stalked the area. The front of the restaurant was for the magpies and they would swoop down and gobble up chips and any leftovers from the outside tables. The crows' territory was at the back where the storage area was and we were under strict instruction to always keep the door closed otherwise they'd break in and eat entire pallets worth of burger buns.

This is fascinating!

Haven’t watched a thread for ages but I need to know the outcome of this one! The crows have cockney accents in my mind… 🤔

Having read this, all crows will now talk like Ray Winstone in my head 😂

LOL I'm imagining a crow with Peggy Mitchell hair now

This reminds me of the 911 tv series episode. I thought it was make believe but nope, true!!

Can't wait to hear outcome!

Placemarking for the update! It's been an hour, so it's either gone well or the crows have done something terrible to the OP 😬

A crow making a hook on a stick to get insects out of a log:

😂 I love your commitment to that!

@Whatthechicken 🤣🤣🤣🤣😊

Crow Mafia.
The Boss is Big Larry. But his brother Lenny is waiting in the wings (yes, thank you) for Larry to get knocked off by the rival gang Chief, Irate Iain (crotchety bastard), then he can take over.
Lenny is married to Torquay Tina, and has Big Plans to take over Norwich, Solihull and the more affluent and leafy parts of Cornwall.
But first he needs to deal with the OP...

I'm not sure she'll be returning to this thread...

Nuts and bolts dropped on the garden table

Bits of other neighbours trashed birdfeeders

OP minus the dastardly dog has been invited to sit down to elevenes with tea and cake.

But they will be dead

This is so interesting! I hope OP can win those pesky crows around. Isn't nature amazing (and terrifying!)?

Oh this reminds me of the summer I had shiny silver and bronze coloured pairs of flip flops I'd wear in the garden and leave by the back door when I went inside.

They were constantly swooping down and stealing them. I can only assume they thought they were possibly fish???

Then from my patio doors I'd see a pecked flip flop tumble from the sky onto the lawn. 😅

My aunt and uncle lived near the sea. They were adopted by a very aggressive snd possessive seagull who lived on their roof and divebombed their friends and tried to get anyone who came to the house away from my aunt and uncle.

He had to be moved on eventually.

I fed a crow a few years ago, it looked like it had something wrong with her wing. A year later she/he brought her two children. They kept pestering her to feed them. I don’t know what she told them but the two children started to bring me flower petals. And after that they have brought me lots of nice shiny things, always in the same place. I even got a shiny cat bowl, I wonder where they found it! But our old cat uses it now. She is friends with them.

Whe recently went away for a week, and when we came back there was a nice shiny gift waiting, I guess they wondered why they hadn’t been fed. 😂 When I come home after work I swear they see it, because I can see (and hear) them come flying as soon as I park my car.. It’s very weird.

Petals, a steel bowl, many flattened aluminium candle holders, a shiny bbq sign.

That episode of Worzel Gummidge where the crows demand machine guns doesn't seem so far fetched at all

Over 2h have now passed and no update from the op so my guess is the crows have won