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

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ChoccyOrangeYum · 31/12/2023 23:14

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?!

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mamahg · 01/01/2024 21:53

Marking my place to find out what happened next 🥲

IncompleteSenten · 01/01/2024 22:09

WillowTit · 01/01/2024 20:27

well birds are descended from dinosaurs, what do you expect?

https://youtube.com/shorts/kZ9x25yTwdU?si=K5uH2C2S-aHFZ-aW

Before you continue to YouTube

https://youtube.com/shorts/kZ9x25yTwdU?si=K5uH2C2S-aHFZ-aW

spackleplumb · 01/01/2024 22:09

@FiftyNotNifty it looks like this on my app. It's definitely handy! (The bit I've circled green)

To be scared that I’m still marked by the crows?
Iwanttowantto · 01/01/2024 22:10

You could wear a scarecrow costume?

IncompleteSenten · 01/01/2024 22:11

Oh. Looks like it didn't work.
It's worth it, I promise 😁

https://youtube.com/shorts/kZ9x25yTwdU?si=K5uH2C2S-aHFZ-aW

magnitude100 · 01/01/2024 22:12

mamahg · 01/01/2024 21:53

Marking my place to find out what happened next 🥲

Well, by now we all know what happened tbf.

snackatack · 01/01/2024 22:19

Do you think the OP - got attacked by the crows and that is why she has not come back?

#Newfearunlocked

LimePi · 01/01/2024 22:22

Lol, still no sign of OP? :)

RafaistheKingofClay · 01/01/2024 22:45

Inastatus · 01/01/2024 21:52

@Elizabethtattletale - do masks help to prevent corvids?

If you wear it over your eyes it might stop them getting pecked out.

OldTinHat · 01/01/2024 22:54

For Flying Out Loud!! (See what I did there?)
I read this, this morning, met friends for lunch and told them about the crows (much interesting chat followed), that OP would report back, etc.

Got home about 5pm, keep refreshing the thread and NO OP UPDATE! My friends are very invested too, now.

What's happening??!! Are you alive, OP? Are you bird food?? Are you crawling in the field with no eyeballs? Or maybe you're 'guest of honour' at the Annual Crow Feast? 🤔

TurquoiseThings · 01/01/2024 23:22

They've taken her, haven't they.

KeeeeeepDancing · 01/01/2024 23:23

reallyworriedjobhunter · 01/01/2024 17:54

"Pfft!

I've been attacked by geese loads of times. One stuck its head up my culottes and bit my backside (I picked it up by the neck and swung it round and threw it as far as I could- not far as I am a weed - but it didn't come back, the bastard!

Don’t some people have geese instead of guard dogs? Or did I dream that."

Can confirm. I know someone who lives alone and very remotely and keeps geese to let him know when walkers approach and keep them away from his house - it's a very pretty house and walkers sometimes wander in.

I'm never wearing culottes there ever again.

Geese are terrifying.
Amazing guard animals. Ain't no one getting past a gaggle of geese

Fallenangelofthenorth · 01/01/2024 23:24

Well, they DID warn her. Twice in fact. Third time wasn't a charm in this case...

Let this be a lesson to us all 🙏

Singleandproud · 01/01/2024 23:26

I do hope nothing awful (un crow related) has happened to OP, car accident etc. I hope shes just forgotten about this thread, would be rather tragic for the police to look through her phone and have us all prophesying her demise.

IncompleteSenten · 01/01/2024 23:35

TurquoiseThings · 01/01/2024 23:22

They've taken her, haven't they.

Yup.
We can expect a list of demands shortly

Fallenangelofthenorth · 01/01/2024 23:35

Singleandproud · 01/01/2024 23:26

I do hope nothing awful (un crow related) has happened to OP, car accident etc. I hope shes just forgotten about this thread, would be rather tragic for the police to look through her phone and have us all prophesying her demise.

Shit, good point!

Hopefully, she's just busy with normal life and has better things on New Years Day than update mumsnet (unlike me).

UsingChangeofName · 01/01/2024 23:41

Singleandproud · 01/01/2024 23:26

I do hope nothing awful (un crow related) has happened to OP, car accident etc. I hope shes just forgotten about this thread, would be rather tragic for the police to look through her phone and have us all prophesying her demise.

That IS a good point

Somatosensational · 01/01/2024 23:58

I think that's highly unlikely. The most logical explanation is that the crows have simply carried her away.

Calliopespa · 02/01/2024 00:06

I’m hoping OP simply thought it would be a fun trick to leave us all hanging with the “if you don’t hear back “ final post. 😕

Singleandproud · 02/01/2024 00:09

@Somatosensational I hope it's the crows but I was watching the news and the awful accident in Dorset today popped up. I'm sure it's unlikely but did make me think. Apologies for ending the day on a sour note,this thread has kept me entertained all day

Agapornis · 02/01/2024 00:36

@LauderSyme I'd highly recommend the poem-y novel Grief is the thing with feathers. Incidentally, one of the characters is writing a book about Ted Hughes. One of the other characters is a crow who is all the fabulous disgusting crow things mentioned by everyone here.

TyneTeas · 02/01/2024 00:39

To be fair to OP, it was an (albeit lively) 8 page thread when she last posted. The 16 subsequent pages are all us.

Hopefully she will report back soon

Banrion · 02/01/2024 00:48

I really want to know what happened!

nocoolnamesleft · 02/01/2024 00:58

TyneTeas · 02/01/2024 00:39

To be fair to OP, it was an (albeit lively) 8 page thread when she last posted. The 16 subsequent pages are all us.

Hopefully she will report back soon

Yes, the thread has got a little crow-ded.

Dinkleberries · 02/01/2024 02:47

Been invested way too much in this today , hope op comes back to update

also worried and hope that the neighbour she met isn’t just a load of crows in a trench coat and hat , and have taken her to there leader 🤨

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