When Urban Wildlife Attacks...

[Jesus_marley]

I was at work today and the wierdest thing happened to me. I was doing a patrol of a building with a courtyard and there were two crows sitting in a tree. The tree in question is located directly in the path so I had to walk under it. As I did so, the crows began doing what crows do. they started to caw. I thought nothing of it. then As I walked out from under the tree, completely ignoring the birds, I see this flash of a shadow on the ground..... and then BAM!

The damnable beast launched itself from its perch above me and then proceeded to enter into a strafing maneuver, striking me on the top/back of my head with it's talons.

It seems It managed to get a surprise round on me and rolled a hit. Fortunately, it rolled low on damage. Though painful, it failed to draw blood. For which I am grateful. Can you imagine filling out the WCB forms on that injury?

 

[Hand of Evil]

Must have been young in the area but it could have also be a warning from Oden about the snake in the grass! They have also been know to do it to make people drop food.

 

[hong]

Magpies here in Austria are infamous for doing that too. Sometimes they have to get the pest control guys out to deal with them.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I saw a guy get chased down a hill by a swan once. Those swans are b****ards.

 

[jaerdaph]

My hate of avians know no limit!!!

 

[Bront]

Probably were near it's nest. They'll do that (I've seen birds divebomb our cat, who doesn't hunt).

This article talks about a recient incident where a deer ran over a child.

 

[Yellow Sign]

Just take the bird to a baseball game that should take care if it!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13188250/


Watch the video!

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

Probably were near it's nest. They'll do that (I've seen birds divebomb our cat, who doesn't hunt).

Crows (and other birds) do something called 'Mobbing' where they dive-bomb a potetnial preadator to drive it off. (around here you see a lot of various songbirds going after Red-Tailed Hawks).

Crows are very smart however. A nearby nest if a likely cause, but they may have an ulterior motive.

If you have a uniform, a co-worker may have antaganized them & now they want pay-back.

 

[frankthedm]

How large were these crows? I have seen some real big ones of recent.

 

[Kunimatyu]

On a completely unrelated note, I want a trained crow that sits on my shoulder and divebombs anyone I command it to attack. Trained attack crows = awesome!