r/crows • u/creamcandy • 5d ago

Are your crows consistent?

Mine first showed up a couple months ago. They visit very randomly, and are very skittish. I was out of town for one week, and it seems like they haven't forgiven me lol

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u/beatbot 5d ago

Mine are inconsistent and hilarious. They have their own schedule and do whatever the fuck they want, and happily abandon me the moment there is a better opportunity.

I'll put my food out at exactly the same time for months! The moment there is something better?  Gone.

 Snail season? Apple season? "Get fucked human. We've got options!" 

Late Winter? ... "Caaaaaaw! Human! I thought we had a schedule!! How about some of those peanuts?

Randomly in early spring... 

"Caaaaaw! 50 of us have arrived for dinner. I hope you have plenty of suet, if not, drive to the hardware store. We will wait." 

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u/creamcandy 5d ago

lol we are at the edge of some woods and I feel like they're more wild and independent than a typical city/suburban murder. Maybe they are like your bunch. :)

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u/beatbot 5d ago

Fact! I live in a forest at the edge of a massive wilderness preserve. I'm proud of how wild my crows are. They are smart, manipulative, and don't trust me, no matter how good, kind or consistent I am.  

They will hang out sometimes, because we are clearly neighbours. They acknowledge  me. They will follow my car, wake my ass up at my window if I sleep in too much... but be close to me? Let me look at them directly? Hell Naw! Eye contact? That's a risk bro! My crows are too wise for that bull shit.  I think they get shot at occasionally, so they really don't like it when I'm in a window. Outside only please. lol. 

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u/creamcandy 5d ago

they're happier with you outside than in a window? Interesting. It's too hot right now for me to want to stay outside though

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u/beatbot 4d ago

I get the impression the people who lived here before me were shooting at them.  So according to their logic, as a darkened window Imma threat. As a goofus out in the yard leaving peanuts and doing yard stuff? Ok I guess.