CNJ assistant editor Anna Lamche comes face to face with the Gospel Oak crow
A STREAM of ladies have actually informed how they have actually been dive-bombed by a crow in Gospel Oak, leaving them with scabs, scratches and headaches.
The New Journal’s report recently about a carrion crow wrongly thinking that individuals with long hair might be a danger to the young in its nest caused a substantial action from individuals all stating the exact same thing – that they too had actually been dived upon.
Sure enough, when CNJ assistant editor Anna Lamche strolled along Mansfield Road the other day (Wednesday) the crow appeared within seconds and whacked her head.
The Hitchcockian headache has actually pressed some individuals to prevent the location completely.
Laura Conway, who lives near Courthope Road, said she was entrusted to scabs on her head and a “terrific headache” which needed ice after being struck two times last month. Ms Conway said: “I was in absolute shock and I actually got a bit scared. I had a bag and I thought ‘if you come near me again I’m gonna whack you’.”
She included: “I was almost running up the road – and then when I got home, I looked across the road and it was on the house on the roof opposite and the little baby was next to the mummy bird so I realised, it’s protecting its young.”
She explained the effect as though someone was “punching” her in the head and said she would prevent walking that method till the infant bird flies the nest. Experts have already said the attacks will quickly stop when the young fledge.
West Hampstead citizen Eish Patel said she cannot prevent walking down the crow’s stomping ground as she commutes to her job as a nurse by means of Mansfield Road every day.
Eish Patel right before the crow strikes her head
She was struck a lot of times – she approximates around 10 – that she put on sunglasses and tucked her hair into her coat in an effort to camouflage herself.
And it’s true that the extremely smart corvid family, that includes crows, can keep in mind faces. A research study performed by the University of Washington discovered that crows remembered human faces that are connected with demanding circumstances for as much as 5 years.
Ms Patel said: “It’s got to the point where it’s so funny that I’m being bullied by a crow but also I’m genuinely scared and paranoid going down that road twice a day.”
Humaira Khan, who resides on a ladder roadway off Mansfield Road, said she was assaulted 3 times by the bird on various days.
One time it broke her skin and she went to her GP to examine if she required a tetanus jab “just in case”.
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Ms Khan said: “Now I’m chuckling about it however I wasn’t at the time since it came out of no place. I believed somebody tossed something from a house. “There were scratches and it was bleeding on my scalp since I believe it came two times on the exact same side.
“The first weekend I didn’t go out at all. My family that Friday night went out for dinner and I said I’m not going out to be attacked by crows.”
She included she and her children all prevent Mansfield Road and walk the long method around. Jenny Simmonds, who lives close by, said she too was struck. “My first thought was that I was being mugged as I heard a squeak when it happened,” she said.
“I turned around and all I could see was this crow looking at me. It’s quite bemusing when you see a bird has attacked you. Luckily I’m not that scared of birds.”
