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I was working on some home repairs when I noticed a big commotion going on in a tree between my home and the neighbors home.
Don't know what the name of the bird is, the rust-colored chest birds that are super common in the PNW....
It seems a nest was being attacked by a crow. Those birds tried to fight it off. And more of those rust colored birds showed up to help, it seems they cooperate to fight off predators. I didn't know that.
Unfortunately, the crow made off with a baby bird.
Then the most shocking thing occurred.
I was about 2 or 3 steps up on my ladder, when as the crow was flying away with the baby bird, one of the rust colored birds came right up to me, and I presume, "asked" me to help. It was the saddest thing, but also I was absolutely shocked that the bird would notice me and fly over to me to try and get my help. It got about 2 feet from me, it's wings partially deployed in a "shrug" and it's beak partially open looking straight at me and back over to the crow.
I gotta admit, for a split second I wanted to pop the crow with a .22, but we don't live in the sticks so that wasn't an option.
My neighbor actually saw the whole thing happen, including the bird coming to me. I told my wife and kid about it and they were "meh".
It was sad to see a baby bird get taken, I know it's "life"...but what really shocks me is that, for some reason, a common bird concluded that it should ask a human for help.
Oh, and crows are evil. I know their type kill sheep too. I get the whole "life" thing, but they still suck.
Don't know what the name of the bird is, the rust-colored chest birds that are super common in the PNW....
It seems a nest was being attacked by a crow. Those birds tried to fight it off. And more of those rust colored birds showed up to help, it seems they cooperate to fight off predators. I didn't know that.
Unfortunately, the crow made off with a baby bird.
Then the most shocking thing occurred.
I was about 2 or 3 steps up on my ladder, when as the crow was flying away with the baby bird, one of the rust colored birds came right up to me, and I presume, "asked" me to help. It was the saddest thing, but also I was absolutely shocked that the bird would notice me and fly over to me to try and get my help. It got about 2 feet from me, it's wings partially deployed in a "shrug" and it's beak partially open looking straight at me and back over to the crow.
I gotta admit, for a split second I wanted to pop the crow with a .22, but we don't live in the sticks so that wasn't an option.
My neighbor actually saw the whole thing happen, including the bird coming to me. I told my wife and kid about it and they were "meh".
It was sad to see a baby bird get taken, I know it's "life"...but what really shocks me is that, for some reason, a common bird concluded that it should ask a human for help.
Oh, and crows are evil. I know their type kill sheep too. I get the whole "life" thing, but they still suck.