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?!

Corvids are amazing, just walk your dog elsewhere.

My sister got kicked in the head by a low flying duck and mugged for a bag of crisps by a jackdaw (we think).

I was the victim of attempted murder by a swan when I was a kid. It tried to drown me.

Birds, don't fuck with them. They're arseholes.

She sounds WONDERFUL!

One of mine managed to kill a stoat.

Yes, I loved that too

Our latest Tortie is a rescue from a cat rescue centre She has been rehomed to them twice (that they admitted to).

not only did she bite DH when he was trying to deflea her she sliced his hands to the point he needed bandages....not a bandaid.

He is a true cat person and his response was; 'Oh bless, she's scared... the Darling'.

they could possibly take one of my brothers, I have lots and he's a bit of pain in the arse. Also, he loves nature so would probably be happy living up a tree somewhere, eating scavenged tinfoil and roof tiles.

He sounds like my kinda guy - can I put him on my list of possible husbands should anything happen to Mr Viper? Not many men can survive my cooking, but it sounds like he could.

I’m now at peace with the crows

It seems that Choccy was prescient . . . perhaps "at peace IN the crows would have been slightly more accurate, though.

He's a keeper, alright!

My Big Tortie (no word of a lie - that cat weighed TWO STONES - she was HUGE , as fellas obese) was a loving pudding in the house, and a fiend from hell outside of it - the other two were just out-and-out cowbags until the got very old and went doolally, whereupon they became very soft and cuddly.

Of course, they only had about three teeth between them by then.

Brilliant!

I have a similarly disturbing crow story. We had a family of nesting crows in our garden when I was little, and one year (think I was about 12) one of the babies fell out of the nest way too early.
I was terrified our cat would get it, so I put it in our rabbit run in full view of the parents for safe keeping. Every time I went out to check on it they were furious and would dive bomb me. And whenever I left my house, one of the adult crows would follow me down the street, landing on streetlight to streetlight to keep an eye on me. He was terrifying.
After a couple of days I relented and let the baby go. I’m not sure what happened, but the mum and dad crows still followed me for weeks afterwards.

Current rescue Tortie is down at our cattery as 'Cowbag'.

When our last Tortie was being checked over just before she had to start chemo (stomach cancer) the vet (innocent soul) commented she was missing some teeth. I tearfully explained that 'She left them behind in our neighbour's dog's ear'.

This is the funniest thing I’ve read EVER!!!!@AhBiscuits you absolutely win the internet with that. DS2 has just come running down the stairs asking what’s so funny 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Please, take him. He'd happily eat a car tyre sandwich, and I reckon your cooking can beat that!
'Tis getting late...Do we think that Choccy will ever return to us?

We're not going to see poor Choccy again. They've got her pinned down somewhere and are keeping her there until the end of time

We have two ginger toms now, and I don't love them nearly as much as the girls - I wish I'd waited and got more tortoiseshells. I really have enough pets, but if anyone offered me either (or both) a tortoiseshell kitten or a terrier pup - either sex - (would have to be babies to fit in with the rest of the clan) - or indeed. both - I would snatch their hands off!

Two of my girls were 18 when I lost them - the other was 23.

Torties are the best. [heartfelt sigh].

❤

Such a great thread,like mumsnet of old.
" typing without eyes" had me snorting with laughter

This has just reminded me of the time I was charged by a massive - utterly massive, like four feet tall - black bird with a red bit on his chest when I was in Australia. It was utterly vicious - I think I’d blanked it out. I can’t find anything of the sort when I search on Google. (Does anyone know what bird I’m on about?)

Can confirm that birds are arseholes. I’ve had my head pecked by a chicken and I own parrots who can be right twats if they’re in the mood.

I have a tortie. She's a very sweet cat, until she sees the vet. Then she's a proper scrapper.

As for those who have abandoned their children in the face of angry bees, or spiders, or whatever, this is exactly what quokkas do!

Choccy dead. You next.

Crows

My tortie was a feral and one day she decided that I was her retirement plan, she’s never bitten me and loves belly rubs. But she’s a prolific hunter of mice and rats and often brings home rabbits (she’ll eat all but the tail too). She once dropped one at our beagles’s feet in the living room, the beagle looked at it, looked at the cat and then at me…completely unsure about what she should do with it.

PossumintheHouse Could it have been a cassowary? They are big and aggressive.

Knowing what I now know, which is what I didn't know earlier, before this crow knowathon, I now know that Choccy never had a fighting chance. If only we'd known earlier, before we verbally cajoled her into that field...

Or maybe Choccy is not stuffed up a tree in a giant twiggy hell-nest, but is sat on the sofa, enjoying her choccy orange and has forgotten about us.

<hopes the crows don't find this thread>

We have. Your post has been noted...

"Caw, caw, caw, caw, caw, caw, caw."

Wow! I had no idea they remembered people