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?!

The answer is clearly yes, OP was right to be scared she was marked by crows.

What a way to go, wonder if her dog (and neighbour) survived? 🤷‍♀️

I wonder if this will be the lowest number of Op contributions to a classics thread with only 8 posts themselves.

Not only marked but murdered by the crows. Ancient sky burial. Bones and a Mumsnet scarf mark the spot. ☠️

@Emotionalsupportviper - I’m traumatised by the otter article 😱 They were, until this moment, one of my favourite animals.

I still haven't fully accepted OP hasn't come back. I'm checking the thread multiple times a day sure that she will have returned.
The crows actually did get her!

@Banrion me too. I'm also worried that she will somehow resurface and start a new thread with an update once this one is full, and I will miss it and never know what happened!

Someone posted in S&B, I think yesterday, about something to do with crow's feet lines. I totally forgot which topic I was on and clicked excitedly hoping for an update 😝

The OP is gone. We have to accept it. The corvids have her and we caw not do a thing about it.

It broke my heart, too.

Paws of clay . . . paws of clay . . .

But as another poster pointed out - perhaps it's not the otters; perhaps it's the PENIS!

I'm also worried that she will somehow resurface and start a new thread with an update once this one is full, and I will miss it and never know what happened!

Same here @seethebrightside - I'm expecting a thread starting "I've been in hospital with a crow bite that turned septic. The dog ran off and left me to my fate. Fortunately the birds were so gorged with cheese that they didn't devour me. However they have taken all of my jewellery and sit in their nests sniggering at me. I have to bring cheese to get my wedding ring back - ("None of that forrin stuff"*) - Cheddar, Cheshire, Wensleydale and Double Gloucester are acceptable, apparently. Red Leicester at a push. Does anyone know a cheese wholesaler?"

*One of them was ok with a well-aged Brie

I bet there was a hell of a rookus

Groooooooaaaaaaan!

😂

(I luffs a pun, me)

A poster who wanted to know
If a grudge could be held by a crow
Left a thread on a board
That filled up with a horde
Of puns from bird nerds in a flow.

Brava! @IntriguingFactJumble 👏

I think the OP has gone rogue; a bit like 'Lord of the Flies', but Lord of the Crows. Has anyone noticed a particularly large nest lately, with a dog standing mournfully underneath?

This thread has made me paranoid. I thought I saw a crow impaled on a branch in the park just now. Turned out to be a black glove, but the fingers really looked like a beak (at least to my eyes without my contacts in). Truly terrifying.

Probably one of Choccy’s gloves, left there by the crows as a grave marker for her bones. 🐦‍⬛

@seethebrightside
I'm worried about missing an updated new thread too!

Maybe she offered up her phone to the cross so now cannot communicate with us on Mumsnet.

Maybe they have set up their own MN account on her phone @Itsholly and are on here being crow spin doctors and smearing other birds and mammals?! Clever clever birds

Commenting because I need to know what happened 😂

Caw

Caw caw

Caw

That is all.

For now.

@TheCrows what have you done with @ChoccyOrangeYum you beasts?!

Dear @TheCrows

Please bring @ChoccyOrangeYum back. We miss her. If she is returned unharmed barely pecked with eyeballs intact * by 4.00 pm there is a Bag for Life full of cheddar cubes in it for you (we are CROWdfunding it).

If you don't bring her back . . . well, I would just like to point out that there is snow on the way, and very low temperatures, and that cheese doesn't cube itself. Just sayin'

*look - just bring her back, please - you can keep the eyeballs

@Emotionalsupportviper it's posts like yours that make MN worth it 😂

Caw! This is spectacular and a reason why this thread needs to go in Classics!

We tire of cheeses.

There is no substitute for the flesh of the mendacious human.

However, we will afford you the courtesy of knowing the fate of Choccy and her friend, for we are not a wholly unreasonable species