Last summer I noticed that everytime I left my house a crow sitting on the telephone wire directly in front of my house would aggressively dive at me. He would then perch on my neighbour's shed...watching me leave in my car. It was going on for a couple of days when I noticed a distressed women standing in fornt of my house. I popped my head out the door to see what her problem was. She said "That bird attacked me!!", pointing to my aggressive new friend. I told her the tends to do that and it would be best to keep walking.
A day or two later I was looking into my yard from my 2nd floor. I noticed a crow walking around my lawn. I watched for several minutes and noticed that another crow was bringing him food. I then realized that this bird was injured and that other crow was protecting it. The injured bird would mainly hide in my raspberry bushes to keep hidden.
I figured I would try an experiment. I stepped out onto my deck. The guard bird immediatley started crowing. As I approached the injured crow other appeared. They were landing on my roof, garage and fence....surrounding me. I figured I better get back inside before they move in to kill.
I decided to not cut my lawn or barbeque intil the bird got better or another predator got to it. Within a week it was gone.
I've been planning on posting this story since Robin told his bird story on May 1st. Then, coincidentally, it started happening again 3 days ago. I get dived when I leave my house. Once again, a crow sitting on the telephone wire in front of my house. I have yet to determine what he is protecting. He gets very agitated when I go in my back yard. I see no injured bird. I am wondering if there is a nest in one of my trees or something. I wanted to just stay out of my back yard until it was over but I really had to cut my grass...it was getting very long. So I did do that....just before posting this. The bird was upset but did not attack once the lawnmower was running. I am guessing the sound kept him away. I actually felt guilty. I don't want to upset the bird while he diligently does his job. I will do my best to stay out of his way until whatever it is he is protecting is no longer an issue.
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Up until your last couple sentences showing compassion to the crows, I was working up some comment on how your house was posessed (probably due to a murder committed in it) and the crows (being servants of satan, after all) were attacking you to use your blod in some pagan ritual.
But, then you were nice to the crows, and I couldn't bring myself to post my theory. :)
It's always a special day when Tony blogs.
I was going to get into a discussion about hopw paganism and satanism or 2 completely different things but this post wasn't supposed to be theological.
Thank you for not posting your theory though. ;\
Also worth noting....my former next door neighbour said he heard someone had died of a drug overdose in my house in the 80s.
Oh Mr Gallo - you have what you call 'aggressive friends', and you have raspberry bushes in which they hide, and you are kind to crows... I dunno. The gene pool in Oz is seriously depleted in terms of men with such qualities. A few pagan murders in the house count as nothing in comparison.
You are a creature apart.
You, sir, are correct. Touche!
Hey...I love my raspberry bushes. I noticed a few plants growing when I first moved here. The previous owners abviously just mowed them down. Everytime a new one sprouts I cut around it. Now one third of my yard is probably covered in raspberry bushes. I figure in about three years I will no longer have a lawn.....just a yard of raspberry bushes. Yummy raspberries and no need for a lawnmower.
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