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Apparently its that time of year again, since at least one Seattlest contributor witnessed a few crow attacks on civilians in the past week, including an attack on his own feeble, defenseless person by a pair of crows on the north side of Freeway Park earlier this week. They swooped down from behind at his head, squawking, and followed him halfway through the park. Upon exiting the south side on Seneca he observed a different pair of crows swooping down at other people.Then today he spotted yet another attack on an innocent pedestrian.
The first search result claims:
"...Right now (late May) in most areas of the country crow babies are just fledging (leaving the nest). In the first couple of weeks that the young are out of the nest they cannot fly well and are very vulnerable to predation. They hide in the trees and the parents are very protective of them. At this time the parents will mob (attack) any potential predator in the area."
Why isn't the government doing something about this? Where is Jack Bauer?
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Yeah, I got chased down the street by two crows the other morning. This is what comes from having trees around. If they aren't falling on your house or car, they're harboring over-protective harbingers of death and distress. We're predators? COME ON! Like anyone but Brendan Kiley is out there eating crows.
I remember that when I was at PLU they used to have to cordon off certain areas of campus in early summer to keep people from getting attacked by the crows. Don't know if they still do it.
Jack Bauer is unavailable, fictional, and overqualified.
You were "chased", MVB!??? HA ha, you big sissy. Change your name to Montgomery V. Burns!
I haven't seen any crows dive bomb any people in our neighborhood, however last weekend my husband saw one attack a rat that wandered up from the ravine near our house. Killed it on the spot. Our next door neighbors saw a different incident of a crow attacking a rat. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing (rats do rank lower for me) but it is a tad bit freaky.
I was divebombed a couple times last year on the BG trail. They didn't actually "attack" but rather scared the heck out of me as I tried to get in a morning run.
Once someone explained that they are protecting their young I felt OK about it, but still didn't runon the trail again for a couple of weeks.
I found this page after searching for information on crow attacks. For the past few days, I've been attacked by a crow every time I get more than a few feet away from my house. We live in West Seattle down by Fauntleroy Park. We've always had a lot of crows down here, but I've never seen one attack someone. A friend of mine used to walk his dog down 61st to Alki, and a crow would dive bomb his big, bald head. We thought it was funny, but I've stopped seeing the humor, maybe because it's happening to me now! I don't know what to do about it, other than shoot the rat-bastard crow.
My teenage daughter got attacked by crows on 6/5 while walking home from school on (usually) busy 3rd Ave. in Fremont/Ballard. After following her and cawing, one swooped down and hit the side of her face. She ran and stopped and then one hit the back of her head and also her bag. She felt confused and scared and didn't know what to do. They continued cawing and following her on the telephone wires up above. Finally, she just ran home as fast as she could. She was uninjured, but shaken up.
The previous day a group of them had followed me down the street cawing and reminding me of scenes from "The Birds".
Be careful out there!
Had to hunt for crow attacks this morning after seeing a truly disturbing sight while I was driving on Main Street in Vancouver, BC yesterday afternoon. As I was driving by in heavy traffic, I noticed two crows were pestering a rat at the edge of the curb. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon and the street was very busy. The rat was faced with certain death if it ran into the traffic away from the crows and, if it ran back to the sidewalk, it would more than likely be killed by the crows. I envisioned myself stopping and chasing the crows away but chose to make the decision to keep driving. I knew that the rat was doomed. Around six o'clock in the evening, I had to take another trip down Main Street. Not surprisingly, at the same corner, I saw a crow pecking at what was presumably the remains of the rat. There are many lessons to be learned from this observation. I am not sure that I am ready for all of them.:-)
I'm glad to have found this page after a crow attack in Kirkland today! A friend and I were walking our babies in strollers when a crow came up from behind and flew through my hair! I thought it was just a bad flyer until it turned around and headed straight back towards us. This was in downtown Kirkland in front of the shops! We crossed the street and it followed us across. I grabbed one of the little flags for crossing the street to fend off a possible 3rd swipe but I guess it left. I kept looking over my shoulder the rest of the walk. I had no idea the crows would fly at the faces of people.
Okay, kdady, it must have been the same crow because I was just attacked in downtown Kirkland on Market street by a very aggressive bird! I couldn't believe it! I've never seen a bird act like that before. At first I was shocked, and then I couldn't stop laughing! It swooped down at my head and dug its claws into my hair! Other people saw it too and were shocked!
People of Kirkland beware!