Crows in the neighbours' trees

A couple of things.

First, an odd observation. From dusk last night there have been two crows just perched in the neighbour's tree. They've been there all night, and haven't moved. Doesn't that seem strange?

Secondly, another neighbour, this one straight out the back, has a crows nest in their tree. I saw the crows building it. It is not currently occupied but I guess someone will be moving in soon. I know crows work in large teams, chasing predators away from their young. Crows have been caught on camera seeing off the likes of kestrels and peregrin falcons. Are they likely to give us a hard time in our garden, which is very close to their nest? If they are going to show fight, I'm a bit concerned about my 2 year old lad. Do I have any reason to be concerned?

 

Were you worried about something like this?

 

Crows can be noisy, Clueless, but other than that they won't bother you.

 

That all sounds ok then

I don't know much about crows, other than that they are very intelligent, and surprisingly tough. In the absence of specific knowledge, I was generalising them with seagulls, which can be aggressive towards people when they nest. I remember me and another lad having to defend ourselves with sweeping brushes when some seagulls took exception to us cleaning work's balcony.

 

[size=medium]Yes Clueless, Gulls can be real pests and quite threatening.
But the crows don't behave like that. They are quite interesting to watch - they steal sticks from each others nests.
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[size=large]Crows are fascinating and intelligent creatures, no doubt about that, but they can be quite fearless. I remember an episode in a park where a few of them were approaching little children and actually beaking them. Whether they were doing that to be friendly or hope to get some food I don't know, but that was not my impression.[/size]

 

No doubt about crows being smart birds. We watched one that had picked of a hard lump of bread take it to a stream and dunk it before consuming it!

 

We got a rookery above us, they've never been aggresive at all, they just get loud at this time of year, you can hear them talking (or shouting) to each other. They will tell each other if food is about but won't hassle you.

Found a baby sitting in the road last year, just picked him up & put him out of the way of the cars, he didn't even struggle, just said caw to me.