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 DON'T CARE - I LOVE IT!

The avian equivalent of those arseholes in red braces who are Something In The City

😂

Dressed as a scarecrow? Oh well.. we all make mistakes. Learn from them and fly higher!

Hard to believe PPs would swallow OP's story , it 's nothing to crow about

The OP is trolling you all. She persuaded you to plunge your sticky beaks into her business, but it's all a ruse, and you are but a feather in her cap. However, she has planted the seed of ornithological love and proper distribution of left over cheese into your bird like brains, so I am saying she is probably sponsored by the RSPB, and you should all fill out the January bird survey when they come for your titbits.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch?sourcecode=bwmith0230&utm_source=googleads&utm_medium=paid-search&utm_campaign=bgbw-2024&utm_content=ppc&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAhc-sBhCEARIsAOVwHuQJ0pQNhk5aZD7X3zFSidVAEgquKBSVrSs9q3x6ZW8gCNWg-li2MesaAiqrEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

If OP is a secret crow lover stealthily spreading awareness and new-found respect for these fascinating birds, I am totally here for that.

For you @Somatosensational

This thread has supplied sufficient amusement for me to namechange - but like PPs, I do hope OP’s not been carri[on]ed away 😕

Do you think their favourite programme would be “The Crown” ?

Probably crowing at the Daily Mail editors about how she’s ducked out of the thread.

Imagine in 300 years time when humans are extinct and birds have evolved, and throughout the lands the crows talk of @ChoccyOrangeYum and how as a foreign invader she was chased away

Brilliant

After this thread, I read some great articles about crows. Will be keeping my head well and truly down from now on if I come across one. If I was the OP I wouldn’t be going near that field.

Poor show of Op to not respond. I hope nothing bad has happened to her.
She's left a lot of us hanging and now worried.

@Emotionalsupportviper
My dsis lives in Greece and she has geese as guard (geese) dogs.
Absolutely vicious and make a hell of a noise, no-one can get near her remote property

WHERE DID YOU GET THAT!?

<consumed by corvid envy>

It's pictured on here:

Ha, you can buy them!

https://www.discworldemporium.com/product/death-friends-discworld-sticker-pack/

😂😂😂😂😂

I have spent the whole day at work talking about crows .

Corvoids have been known to produce paintings. I know somebody who has one of their 'pictures'. Perhaps the OP is too busy posing for the crows.

I wish I'd thought of that 😂 but if the OP is perched somewhere just chirping away to herself at how gull able (see what I did there) we are and believing her tale of beaky balderdash, she can be pleased with herself because it's been fun.

She could still claw her way back into our good books and I think we'd forgive her. Daft old bird that she is 🐦😝

As @Vegemiteandhoneyontoast said, it's a Terry Pratchett Discworld sticker. I bought it about 2 years ago and it still makes me smile every time I see it.

I thought I recognised the eyeball in the crow's beak . . . IIRC that sheep was still almost warm.