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 👁 what you did there 😉

@didthecrowseatchoccy Indeed! Unless someone (usually a dog walker or jogger) finds the skeleton….but you cannot take crows to cawt

Just checked for an update and see somehow 30 pages have gone by since OP last posted!!

OP has been CROWned Queen of Crowborough

Not even to the Crown Cawt?

🤫 We cannot talk of that Crown Cawt lest the crows find out. We’ll all be marked then.

It's worse in the spring when the sodding magpies pick the chicks out of the nests and swallow them.

I fecking HATE magpies. 😡

Me too @Emotionalsupportviper
And they're horrid to hedgehogs

It's worse in the spring when the sodding magpies pick the chicks out of the nests and swallow them.

All corvids will do that plus woodpeckers and so will squirrels, other rodents, weasels and stoats. There was a unique clip on Springwatch where a mouse dragged a (ground nesting bird's) chick out the nest.

I find spring so stressful because of that. I know it sounds crazy.

we have a lot of trees around us and in spring if it’s not magpies harassing the little birds it’s al the neighbourhood cats. I can hear the baby birds screaming when they being attacked and the poor parents helpless. Usually blackbirds.makes me so sad.

i used to get a lot of little birds in the garden but fewer now. And tbh I don’t want to encourage them now as we have cats either side of us. We used to get blackbirds nesting every year but not now.

If I was the OP I wouldn't be able to resist coming back to this thread and engaging in all the birdy banter.

They really have got her haven't they.

I'm saw a seagull going for a pigeon once, grabbing it by the neck. It was horrible. I tried to distract it but not sure if it came back.

Alas, it is the only conclusion. The husband and neighbour might have been on caw-hoots to off her.

A friend of my Mum's cat was killed by seagulls @Itsholly. It apparently could get onto the roof of her terraced house where they were nesting.

NoooooOOOOOOOoooooooo!

<hands over ears>

<closes eyes>

LALALALALA! I can't hear you!

All the others I can understand - thaty're bastards - even squirrels. Rats with fancy tails, that's all. But mice! I LOVE mice!

(Or at lest I did . . . )

Nature really is red in tooth and claw, isn't it? It was when I learned of the Dark Side to otters that the scales really fell from my eyes . . .

Ha ha (laughs grimly) yes it is @Emotionalsupportviper. I grew up in a rural community with lots of farm animals around us. If you saw a sheep stuck on its back (usually with its lambs wedging it in), you had to flip it immediately - I won't tell you why exactly but - due to crows. I like them but they can be vile.

I don't know what otters do but guess nesting ducks, etc?

Not sure what crows do to hedgehogs either. A badger finished off Harry the Hedgehog in our garden and unhelpfully left the remains under the kid's swing.

Otters . . . baby seals . . . among other things . . .

Like squirrels, otters are absolute bastards who got a lucky break from society because of "Ring of Bright Water" . . .

https://www.vox.com/2014/4/24/5640890/otters-rape-baby-seals-monsters-bad

Re: crows and hedgehogs - I can only imagine that the crows' samurai beaks can stab through the spines and eat the hedgehog alive

Edit: I can guess at the crows and sheep situation - unfortunately I have a vivid imagination and often cannot sleep at night. 😟

Ducks and otters are bastards. I recently saw a gang of drakes attacking a hen to try to get her to mate with them. It was horrible.

Thanks but I'm not clicking on the link @Emotionalsupportviper - I have a vivid imagination too!

Drakes can drown single female ducks when they mob and basically rape them @Somatosensational - little sh*ts. Apparently they have a very high sex drive in the mating season that makes them aggressive

What it comes down to, ladies is that most males of all species are bastards when it comes down to anything to do with their willies!

They're bliddy horrible and as usual it's females and innocent babies that suffer.

(Bitter? Moi?)

Looks like for the crow lovers this is still available!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frissoncomics/corvids-of-the-anglo-celtic-isles-and-their-folklore?fbclid=IwAR3OutJuFaXtdAW09FTlDTK4X1a-lrlBSUxSl921xAvdAhwLkNscpYKhXggaemAbCmJYaNWq1ouapwB--ZIBuGv01h2-Bw3nNQUuNR71u0m69Kf0qlgjkgg_O7KqAGiJg

It’s the penis. Ducks are one of the few birds to have a penis. Other birds are much more civilised. The penis is the root of all evil.

Oops sorry as the page was up I thought it was active! But looks like there are many crow lovers around....

The penis is the root of all evil

Amen

@Emotionalsupportviper Keep your pecker up, lovely, NABALT (not all birds are like that). Just the be-penised ones.

Seriously though, I cannot be doing with rapist otters. WTAF? Nature is so very cruel.