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Does this mean we are doomed…?

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Undertherainbow00 · 24/08/2024 23:38

Came home to find a dead bird on my doorstep… Literally can’t fathom how it would end up there. Live in the countryside but how did it get there???
Of course the ring doorbell isn’t charged, so can’t check if it was put there. I’m SO freaked out right now after googling ‘dead bird on doorstep’. It wasn’t a little bird either - some sort of crow looking thing. I was screaming and my partner removed it, so I didn’t get a good look. Anyone else out there ever experienced anything similar?

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pollymere · 28/08/2024 19:50

llizzie · 28/08/2024 19:05

Crows are nothing of the kind. Study them. You will find they are unbelievably intelligent creatures and the love and respect they have for one another.

It is a myth created by filmmakers.

Maybe read Macbeth? 🤦‍♀️

llizzie · 29/08/2024 00:13

pollymere · 28/08/2024 19:50

Maybe read Macbeth? 🤦‍♀️

What does that have to do with it? For years, until this year, I fed the crows, ravens, rooks, all of them in my garden. I have a yard wide stone bird table. I gave them a variety of various foods, peanuts, raisins, and so on, and cut the bread into squares. They came in flocks to feed. They would fly to the high tree, and along the tops of the roofs.

They had a very precise order to their food. One bird, usually a raven, would fly down and walk around the table and the ground to see what was on offer. Then the other birds would come down to eat, and at nesting times, would take the food back to the nest. When fledged, they would feed the young on the ground or on rooftops.

They never messed on the table or the ground where they fed. They squabbled very occasionally. Otherwise, they showed great respect.

One afternoon I went into the back room where I could not hear any noise in front, for a rest. I got up to make some tea and was greeted by a cacophony of noise. When I looked out of the window there were thousands of crows, possibly every crow in the county, flying over the garden.

I went out to see why, and at the bottom of my wheelchair ramp there was a crow trapped in an oven shelf which I had propped up, but which had fallen on the ground and trapped the poor bird. Thousands of crows - more than the film 'birds' were in the garden (58ft wide and long). Perhaps because I could not move quickly, they allowed me to approach the trapped one. It looked terrified. For some reason, because I had not been in that position before, I put my finger on my lips, like you do a child, and the bird visibly relaxed enough for me to lift the shelf (one of those with rods from the oven) and allow it to fly away. The difference between the noise and the silence when I appeared was palpable. When the trapped one was airborne, all those birds flew away.

Above them I saw the kites, large birds of prey, and realised that the thousand strong flock was protecting the one trapped bird from the kites. I don't think many people would do that, do you? I don't know how long the bird had been trapped, but somehow they could muster a whole county full of crows in a very short time.

Pyreneansylvie · 29/08/2024 11:21

Amazing story @llizzie Wish I had been there to witness this, it must have been an awe inspiring sight.

I'm another regular corvid feeder - we make "crow porridge" and fling it onto the flat roof of our garage. Some mornings they line up along the fence to wait. They are fascinating to watch and definitely begin to have a recognition of you if you feed them often.

listsandbudgets · 29/08/2024 11:26

I get it OP I once found a huge dead rat just lying in the middle if my lawn. We've never had a rat problem I'm aware of and it didn't appear to be maimed in any way just dead..

Finding unexplained dead bodies about the place is unnerving

llizzie · 29/08/2024 14:45

Pyreneansylvie · 29/08/2024 11:21

Amazing story @llizzie Wish I had been there to witness this, it must have been an awe inspiring sight.

I'm another regular corvid feeder - we make "crow porridge" and fling it onto the flat roof of our garage. Some mornings they line up along the fence to wait. They are fascinating to watch and definitely begin to have a recognition of you if you feed them often.

Thank you for your reply. I have other amazing bird stories. A few years ago the numbers of kites grew through the reintroduction in Wales. They are fed on waste meat and are now in their hundreds.(I am not in Wales, they fly long distances) One day I saw a flock of seagulls overhead. At the front of the seagull flock was a single raven. It was so amazing. After that, I had flocks of seagulls feeding with flocks of crows et al.

My front garden is long, and block paved. The 36" square ancient stone bird table is placed in the centre of the garden with a cherry tree a few feet away. Over the years the crows learned to fly down according to the wind and walk about on the block paving. Gradually the seagulls learned to do the same. It was amazing to watch how they flew down to the ground between the tree and the stone table. They stayed a whole year, until I stopped feeding them in the pandemic.
I cannot say why they made this alliance with the white birds. I suspect it was to distract the kites. It was a bit like watching a living chess board.

Cel119 · 02/09/2024 02:28

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sashh · 02/09/2024 03:27

everythingthelighttouches · 26/08/2024 19:30

Misread the post initially and thought the bird had started screaming! Now that would have been worthy of a post.

But no.

Oo that would make a good book title, The scream of the raven corpse.

Grammarnut · 03/09/2024 18:52

Has anyone counted the ravens at the Tower lately? Just a thought.

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