They came at me when I was at my most vulnerable.
I had just got up
And gone outside to pee
and was crunching on a few cheese crackers.
“Give us yer loot!” the big one intimated
With hard, implacable eyes,
Big bony dagger drawn.
So I did
Throwing the crackers at them.
They grabbed it in their beaks and flew off
Black cloaks drawn around them
Into the big blue sky.
John Malone 
Yes, never tempt the crows, they’ll get you, sometime, somewhere, they’ll peck your eyes out, like they do to the lambs …
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I often wonder about that, Carolyn. Do crows ever attack humans? Has there been an instance where a crow has pecked out a human eye?
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An interesting question John. I think Crows would only attack a vulnerable human, an injured adult, or small child. They shy away quite readily. An adult human is much much bigger than a crow, or raven as they should be known. Did you know that, the Australian Crow isn’t actually a Crow at all, it’s a Raven. There are three Australian Crows and three Ravens, but it’s said that it’s difficult to tell the difference between them. I call them Crows, the ones I see in paddocks, on fences and flying off in groups or alone. I don’t know whether they are Crows though, or whether they’re Ravens. I just know the birds wouldn’t care one way or the other what I called them …
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a reassuring answer. thanks Carolyn 🙂
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