AIBU to feel guilty for not stopping a crow?

[AliceNotInChains]

Just seen a crow attacking a black bird nest down our driveway, all the black birds where dive bombing it and it didn’t care, it managed to pull a baby bird out of the nest, crow and baby fell onto driveway and crow was them divebombed by around 7 blackbirds 😱 it was throwing the baby around in the air, it was awful. I stopped watching but I’m assuming it got away with the baby. Now I feel guilty - I could have gone out and stopped it but I didn’t - it’s nature isn’t it 😞 would you have intervened?

In situations like this I just ask myself "What would Attenborough do?"

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I think if you had stepped in, damaged may have already been done and the baby chick would have suffered more

In the words of Chris Peckham, predation.

But it's not nice for you to see, sorry you did. It will be forgotten in a few days.

Be careful with crows. There was a poster on here once who felt a crow was after her and she never came back. I often wonder what happened to her 😱🤣

ETA my post was light hearted but I did once see a bird die and it’s not nice to see at all, so I am sending a virtual arm pat.

Nature.
The crow has to feed his chicks as well, it's not going to buy KFC.

Of course you shouldn't intervene. The crow also has babies to feed and that's one of its food sources.

Crows are no less worthy or important than any other bird.

Wild animals and birds eat each other. That's how it works. It's not fair to limit one bird's chances of survival in favour of another bird just because you find it less cute than the other one. I agree it's horrible to watch, but let the crow do its thing. It's hungry and has beaks to feed.

My husband tried to rescue a honey bee from a spider's web once. His good deed was a three-way failure.

My husband was stung by the honey bee. The honey bee flew away to die. The spider lost its tea.

Don't interfere with nature.

I stepped in once and chased off 2 crows hunting a very small baby bunny rabbit. One crow had it in its claws and was flying off with it when I came across them and frightened it into dropping the bunny. I kept an eye and watched the crows come back and hunt for the baby again. I ended up climbing over a gate into a field to frighten them away so the bunny could escape. It upset me for a long time afterwards but as my husband asked would I have been so bothered if it wasn’t a really cute fluffy tailed bunny? Not sure. It is nature and It’s happening all the time but we just don’t see it. It’s still very upsetting to witness.

So the baby bunny probably died anyway and the baby crows starved...

I would have sent it round to my sister’s house.

(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

It's nature taking it's course. Not nice to watch but crows at this time need to kill other birds because carrion is what their young eat.

A crow killed a pigeon in my garden last week and it was horrible. But I didn't intervene. Why make an enemy of the crow- which is what woukd hapoen - when it is doing what a parent needs to do for it's offspring?

It's probably starting a thread about you......

I got a magpie off my cat - who had obviously bitten off far more than it could handle, as was holding it by one paw as far away from itself as he could, and scared to let go. All the crows and magpies were bombing him.

The magpie was OK and REALLY pissed off, and from that day onwards the magpies have like me, but HATED that cat and used to scold him everytime he went outside.

they left his brother alone though.

Dont mess with the corvids, is all I will say

It is nature.
I remember being sat on the loo... utterly fascinated by a spider fight going on in the corner. I was a tiny little spider vs a massive house spider. The little spider bit the big one until it was paralysed. it kind of tensed up and stopped moving.

I did once rescue a pigeon from being pecked to death by two seagulls... because seasgulls are assholes. 😆

Even if you had, it would have gone back for them.

Don’t ever mess with a crow. Absolutely they memorize your face hold a grudge and pass this grudge down to the next generation. They are extremely intelligent and if a crow dies they send a tribunal who will walk around the dead bird and determine cause of death.

You save the baby but starve the crow? No. This is why we're not meant to interfere with nature. It's taken care of itself long before we came along.

Nature is brutal - it is what it is. I say this as a vegetarian 😆
I was once walking up my street back when I lived in a rural area, birds of prey aplenty there - beautiful. What was not beautiful was one of them dropping the gutted corpse (of a crow actually)! about two meters from me 🙈 Hit the road with a splat, thankfully not on my head.
I know it's sad though, but can't intervene.

🤣🤣

The blackbirds were probably very inexperienced, almost certainly raising their first brood. They will learn and build the next nest somewhere more prudent. They still have time this year. The best thing to do to help is grow some lovely thick dense hedging. The crow babies are snuggling up with full tummies. The world is turning as it
should!

I called her as soon as it happened and told her to inspect her bushes for black bird nests, neither of us knew they nested in bushes so I suspect she’ll be busy now searching

Seriously??

Was probably autobiographical written by a crow being stalked by another crow

Crows do not forget easily! We have a crow that stalks our garden after once stealing pizza off my child’s plate. Nothing will stop them!