Crows are ruthless killers!

[Deleted member 391673]

Long story - cliffs : crows just wiped out blackbird offsprings in front of me.

I was drinking some darjeeling on my balcony on this fine morning when something caught my attention in the cherry tree right in front of it.

Some blackbirds were going apeshit (for those of you who have frequented the volatiles, you know the annoying, loud, one note non-stop chirping that they do around nesting season) in the cherry tree in front of me.

Nothing out of the ordinary I think, until between the branches I notice this huge crow, which is slowly maneuvering around the branches of the tree, going towards the middle. It's quite unusual for crows to go in that tree, as they are simply too bulky.

At that moment I realise that the crow's purpose is actually to get closer to a baby blackbird which is just chilling on a branch.

Now that's the fucked up part. The crow is getting closer to the baby blackbird, the parent blackbirds are going nuts, but the baby blackbird is just waiting there, obviously not realising what is going to happen.

Being quite inexperienced with birds, I was also wondering what was going to happen. I mean I knew that the crow was going to attack that poor clueless baby blackbird, so a part of me wanted to scare the crow away, another part of me doesn't feel like interfering with nature, or so were my thoughts, when suddenly.....

......it happened in a second. The crow jumped on the baby blackbird, took it off its branche, managed to land on another branche, where, to my horror, it proceeded to gut it with its beak, while pinning it down with one of its claws.

It was pretty fucked up, the way the crow just wrecked the living shit out of that baby bird, stabbing it with its beak with the parents hyperventilating 1 meter away. After like 30 seconds of destruction, the crow just flies off with the baby blackbird.

So after a little moment processing all that I go back to my darjeeling, thinking that nature is fucked up.

10 minutes later the black birds go batshit again as another crow has landed in the tree. I couldn't see very well but what I saw was a comparable scene. A crow, (a smaller one I think) was killing the shit out of a bird, then flies off.

30 minutes after, same commotion, on the sidewalk right under the tree. I didn't see the attack but I saw a crow (same one ? Another one ?) just massacre another baby bird. For some reason it stayed there longer than the 2 previous times, where it gutted the bird and ripped it open. At some point it flew off with the bird in its beak, leaving a bunch of feathers, some guts and bones behind.

At some points the neighbour from the balcony above peeks around, tells me that the baby blackbirds flew off. The blackbird nest was on her balcony. 5 babies. I inform her that 3 were just killed under my eyes.

Right now, far away behind some trees, I can hear a blackbird going batshit. Perhaps one of the remaining babies is getting dismantled by the crow.

Nature is fucked up...

i mean, they are predators so they are eating.

you can feed them scraps and peanuts if you want them to focus less on the black birds maybe?

if they have an easily available already dead food supply on the lawn, they probably won't be hungry enough to attack the bird nest near your house.

crows are really smart, interesting, mysterious birds. but they can be dicks too.


also, we eat chicken, beef, etc that lives a prolonged brutal life in industrial farms/slaughterhouses.
we're way worse than the crows.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Maybe the crows will get their comeuppance and a bear will come eat their babies.

 

[Deleted member 391673]

Black birds huh? So racist.

the crows are black too.
black on black crime.

 

[Deleted member 391673]

Maybe the crows will get their comeuppance and a bear will come eat their babies.

damn, is that for real?

how'd that bear not get zapped?

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

Maybe the crows will get their comeuppance and a bear will come eat their babies.

Holy crap how did the bear ever come down...

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

damn, is that for real?

how'd that bear not get zapped?

Yes, it’s real. Northern Alberta. Guess it just kept its paws off the cables.

Holy crap how did the bear ever come down...

Same way it went up apparently.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

i mean, they are predators so they are eating.

you can feed them scraps and peanuts if you want them to focus less on the black birds maybe?

if they have an easily available already dead food supply on the lawn, they probably won't be hungry enough to attack the bird nest near your house.

crows are really smart, interesting, mysterious birds. but they can be dicks too.


also, we eat chicken, beef, etc that lives a prolonged brutal life in industrial farms/slaughterhouses.
we're way worse than the crows.

Well crows are never around that tree so it's not like I can take measures about them.

They really only came today to kill the blackbirds that had just left their nest a couple of meters above.

Kind of scary, it means that they had been monitoring that nest and were just waiting.

 

[NHB7]

There use to be a murder of crows that seemed to like to kick it in a tree just outside my then apartment. They kind of creeped me out because they seemed to dislike me. When I would walk past the tree they would all start squawking at me. I think they were cursing! Well one day I was walking out to the parking lot with my then gf. I had to stop and tie my shoe and she kept walking. She passed said tree and there was radio silence. Then I go and they’re all just like:

“Fuck you!!! Fuck You!!! Fuck You!!!”

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

They're smart, too. They recognize faces and are good problem solvers. I hate their fucking guts, though, as there's a tree by my balcony that a bunch of crows always hang out at, so I'm regularly woken up at 5am by 20 crows going batshit crazy about nothing outside of my bedroom window.

I remember reading a story about some crows that damaged the car of someone who pissed them off, lol.

 

[osudude]

That's some faces of death fuckery right there.

 

[DespicablePeep]

Id scare it away. This "interfering with nature" stuff is meant for sh+t like not feeding wild animals or disturbing their lifecycle or whatever for fear of damage on a greater scale,their patterns,ecosystem. Not scaring some POS crow from killing babies and giving them at least a chance. Those f+ckers can find something else to eat.

TS is anti-christ

Fuck TS

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

They're smart, too. They recognize faces and are good problem solvers. I hate their fucking guts, though, as there's a tree by my balcony that a bunch of crows always hang out at, so I'm regularly woken up at 5am by 20 crows going batshit crazy about nothing outside of my bedroom window.

That's hell.
Ironically, in my case, it's the blackbirds who were impertinent as fuck and woke me up in the morning.

Funny because they have quite a beautiful song, when they are just chilling somewhere. But their nesting song is fucking aids and ruins your day.

 

[FacePunch]

I saw a documentary about the Kremlin where they had crows problems.

They brought a guy with a falcon on his arm to deal with that.

I was amazed at how easily the falcon dealt with the crows. Went through them like butter.

Falcons must be some pretty strong creatures PFP.

Oh yea. American kestrels and peregrine falcons are savage pint-sized butchers. Crows are probably the P4P omnivore champs, and they're smart as hell - But the predator birds would devastate them if it came down to it.

Maybe the most impressive bird that I ever encountered in the wild is a Great Horned Owl. I had one take flight from a fence post that was 10-15 feet away from my car, right at head height. That sonofabitch was huge. It seemed like he had a 6 foot wingspan. So badass.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

Oh yea. American kestrels and peregrine falcons are savage pint-sized butchers. Crows are probably the P4P omnivore champs, and they're smart as hell - But the predator birds would devastate them if it came down to it.

Maybe the most impressive bird that I ever encountered in the wild is a Great Horned Owl. I had one take flight from a fence post that was 10-15 feet away from my car, right at head height. That sonofabitch was huge. It seemed like he had a 6 foot wingspan. So badass.

That's the specie the dude in the documentary had. Peregrine falcon.

And yes, it dealt death and absolute destruction to those crows.

Crazy, knowing how robust crows are.

 

[Fedorgasm]

I always thought the "black crows" was stupid band name.

There are no crows of any other color

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

I always thought the "black crows" was stupid band name.

There are no crows of any other color

Actually in Russia they are light grey + dark grey.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Actually in Russia they are light grey + dark grey.

I stand corrected.

My apologies to that shitty band.

 

[sfblue]

I hate crows. They are always making a bunch of noise, disturbing the peace and bullying other birds. Fuck crows.

 

[Pugilistic]

I once saw a couple of squirrels attacking a magpie nest. The two adult magpies were going apeshit and trying to fight the squirrels but one eventually got in the nest and presumably destroyed the eggs/chicks in the nest. I never liked squirrels in the first place but that was fucked up.

 

[bref]

Maybe the most impressive bird that I ever encountered in the wild is a Great Horned Owl. I had one take flight from a fence post that was 10-15 feet away from my car, right at head height. That sonofabitch was huge. It seemed like he had a 6 foot wingspan. So badass.

Yeah, my parents live in a small town and have 2 great horned owls living in trees in their backyard. My sister can't even let her dog out off leash (shih tzu) because she's scared one of the owls will get him. They're fucking monsters.