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?!

Op if you return and your eyes are intact and you see this, can you please start a new thread so we can all know what happened, many thanks.

Don’t peck on the op people

This thread has been a good read - interesting facts and some great puns (though obviously it would be even better with an update from the OP!).

But … alas …

De-lurking to ask @ChoccyOrangeYum are you ok?
Did you survive the murder of crows?

I think she’s lying down somewhere going “haw haw haw” laughing at us all falling for her wind-up! 🤣

I think that this has been an elaborate PR strategy.

@ChoccyOrangeYum IS a crow!

This is an cleverly orchestrated campaign to raise the profile of corvids all over the country, make them seem sensitive and sympathetic - lovers of poetry, opera, fines wines, and great literature, and very family-orientated, and with a playful side, too* - rather than objects of carrion-scoffing horror who love nothing better than the aftermath of a battlefield massacre.

This will enable them to con their way into our fridges - still packed with naice ham, various interesting cheeses and a half a turkey the size of a juvenile ostrich (not to mention the surplus pigs-in-blankets)

It is evolution in action - after all, in the UK we are no longer subject to the Vikings etc massacring everyone within sight and carrying off our livestock - crows have had to adapt to the prevailing ethos. I mean, what's a bird to do?

You've got to admire them really.

*There is always the implicit threat in their "Never forget, never forgive" motto if the softly-softly approach doesn't work

I have really enjoyed the thread but genuinely wondering where op might be, hope she’s ok

Me to, I’ve a phobia of all birds but pigeons, chickens and seagulls are what I’m most afraid of but I think I may be adding crows to the list now

Ok DH has been, crows were there watching he says but no assault. I’m just about to meet neighbour now and will update in either -
10 mins - it did not go well and I legged it home

1 hour - I’m now at peace with the crows

wish me luck! 🦅

eeeerrrrrrr …. Does no update since this last one mean the crows have taken you hostage?!

It means she was playing with us all along. There probably are no crows.

I believe the thread and maybe her phone was pecked to bits broke? Or there was a family emergency? Or something terrible has happened and the last thing on her mind is mumsnet. I hope she does come back though to reassure those of us who are worried!

In other bird news, I saw a mother pigeon nesting on the pigeon spikes of a covered railway bridge yesterday. She's there most years. It's quite high up so I doubt many people notice her, but I always look. I just love her attitude and determination and can't wait to see the freaky babies when they hatch.

Jeez I miss the penis beaker days, can we not go back to that? At least it was interesting!

I don't give a chough what you think

What was the penis beaker?

Just a thought. The OP could have named changed and been here throughout the many pages of posts.

😎

Maybe @AMurderofMurderingCrows is op and she’s done for.

And we don't give a toss about your pigeon either, but you decided to bore us with it anyway

@Calliopespa a thread far more fun than this one!

Do you dunk your penis? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1875847-Do-you-dunk-your-penis

I need to know the ending 😂😂

Thank you, only on page one and I’m cackling 😂

When I clicked on this thread I thought it would be about Moira Rose of Schitt's Creek.

Not RTFT but Australian magpies remember faces, and these are not "tamed" ones, just the ones on the street. Maggies are not corvids, though they look similar in some ways and are similarly very intelligent and long-lived.

LOL. I appreciate the pun @Somatosensational even if @Wanna17 didn't

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Sorry, OPs phone is hard to use with claws.

OP has gone. We can say no more as advised by our l-eagle team...