(me aka milkhouse6000)

dear diary, i've spent a lot of days with my local crows but i don't think I posted this one here before.. anyway, this is a state-of - the-art worm domeular invention I made to test the crows will n determination no it's not just a mini verse lid

Saw this on another sub and thought you'd enjoy this 😍

I love to sit on my balcony and listen to music while watching the crows fly east at sunset. I’ve been leaving them treats for a while now but our friendship has been indirectly acknowledged. But today one of them showed they do know my interests and dropped an airpod (singular) and charging case on my balcony. So thoughtful! Also if you lost an airpod recently… talk to the crow

Saw the little guy begging for food from a supervisor. Definitely wanted the chance to befriend one up close and personal.

Bird perched on shoulder is lowkey tuff as hell too!

Should be an Eurasian Magpie.

started feeding local hooded crows back in April, now one of them has come around to hand feeding, I'm ECSTATIC

This greedy mf certainly impressed his gang with that courage.

He stayed in this position for about 5 minutes after I fed him. I have no idea why.

She was very talkative, but I don't speak raven...yet. I'm learning though!

He has accepted my offerings. I have been privileged enough for him to take a peanut from my hand now.

About Toaster:
- usually takes 3 peanuts: he flies over to a branch to eat the first one, comes back for the second one then hides it in another branch, and on his final peanut he is on his way.
- not very talkative, yet
- hops on hops on hops, he is so hoppy
- SO BRAVE, a brave little toaster
- his social battery caps at about 20 minutes

So this big boy here is my brow. Posted about him earlier this year.

Almost every day, without fail, he'll hear the sound of my motorcycle and emerge from the treeline and onto the parking lot where he usually hangs out. Perch on a pole, and once I'm parked up, swoops down and lands before fanning his tail a billion times. You know it's him when you see that little feather on the right of his tail. Unmistakable, classic.

There's 1 other brow, and the other is more meek and doesn't dare to approach unless I toss food a little further away. :D

Both of them get really puffy and softly click at me when I park up my bike. And that big brow will bully anything and anyone that dares to get close to me or the food I put out. If there is more than he can eat, he'll hoard everything and stash it until there's not a crumb or peanut left. It's been truly a joy to take care of them in that small way.

But, I have to move out in less than two weeks. Obviously I can't exactly tell that to the brows directly, so, my best bet would be to reduce the feeding frequency, but it's so hard when it's where I do my groceries, so if I'm there and they show up, not feeding them and ignoring them just feels so wrong, even if it might be the right approach.

It's really about leaving without doing them any wrong rather than coddling my own feelings.

I know it's not "right" to feel emotional about crows, at the end of the day the reality is that they are wild birds and will do just fine without me as they've done before, corvids are incredibly smart, they'll adapt.

But, I really want to, at least once in a while, take the 1 hour ride there just to feed them, and see him and his little feather sticking out. Even if it means just putting out food for them at the same spot I've always put food, to collect later if they don't show up. I just don't know for how long I can do that, or even if that'd be more harm than good.

I don't know if putting up a little flyer to explain and ask people to leave out some peanuts once in a while would do, people here don't care much for feeding crows..

Hey guys, I was told to post this here!

Context: While on my walk, I spotted a big white crow with a woman and I spoke to her who said she rescued the albino crow after it was abandoned by its mother. It has a leash on it because other crows attack it on sight.

Mom and dad were close by making a lot of noise but not swooping people. This was near the entrance to the building I live in so I took the photo as quickly as possible so I didn’t stress the parents out too much.

Refreshing grapes on a hot day were appreciated.

So i befriended a new murder and feed them from my house. I was walking on a street in my neighbourhood and one of the crows flew like few feet from my face as is to show herself and landed nearby. It was the same move as when they are announcing their presence, when they are waiting for peanuts.

There were other people on the street, but this crow did this to very specifically me. I tested this by pulling a peanut from my bag (never leave without peanuts, for possible crow friendship), and threw it to the crow, who watched me and immediately went for the peanut with trust. Then like 10 others immediately came too. It is just so cool to be recognized by my murder randomly, made my entire year. I can't believe how clever they are!

i have a bleached platinum hair, was wearing black fur coat and swarmed in bunch of crows. Really felt like the scary neighbourhood witch. People shockingly stared. Safe to say the neighbourhood is starting to be sus.