Crazy birds attack Chicago citizens

Chicago authorities issued a warning for people walking along Lake Michigan to beware of dive bombing blackbirds this week, after a number of attacks happened which media reports said were reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds.

“Cyclists and pedestrians complain of being pecked after being chased for up to 100m (109 yards) by the creatures,” the BBC reported. “Potential victims are taking new precautions to avoid the birds by changing their commuting patterns or cycling only with a helmet.”

The new aerial threat emerged weeks after British farmers warned that previously docile ravens have started ambushing lambs, sheep and even baby calves, with Scotland one of the worst locations for raids.

“Raven attacks have become a huge problem across a wide area of the country,” farmers representative Johnny Hall told the Guardian in May. “The attacks are so horrific that it’s causing mental suffering to people who find the animals,” he added.

Also in Scotland, press reports emerged in March of a crow which dive bombed mothers outside St Margaret’s Roman Catholic Primary School in Dunfermline, in one case becoming entangled in the hair of Dee Forrester, 40.

“The next thing I knew something was flapping at my head and I felt claws digging into my scalp,” Ms Forrester told the BBC, “I screamed and started running as fast as I could. When I turned round, there was a big black crow sitting on the fence.”

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