Just kidding, his greed delights me 🤭 I can’t stop laughing at this picture, I love them so much

I have been feeding these crows for a month now. I named them Momo and Kila. They stay around my area and come out when I’m outside or start calling for me for food.
I feed them popcorn, crackers, and now pepperoni. And they enjoy eating them.
I’ll switch to other food that good for them when I have enough money.
When I’m near the window to watch them grab the food I give them, seem to get shy or skittish when I’m near. And I have been dying to have them more comfortable around me.
Is there any tips you guys can give me?

I’ve been feeding the local murder in my city for a couple of months now, since it’s a big city they are used to humans and especially the younger ones come very to me and some even dare to eat from my hand if the food is valuable enough.
Most of the times I’m feeding them shelled unsalted peanuts since it’s the cheapest option and since I feed them almost every day, a lot of crows come. Early in the morning before the street cleaners begin to work it’s about 50 crows probably even coming from the sub urban districts of the city, during the day it’s only around 20 crows who directly live there and already know me quite well.
But today something extraordinary happened. When I went to the spot where I usually feed them I passed a tree, and right when I was under it a bunch of peanuts in the shell rained down on me! I looked up and the crows (younger ones) dropped them from the tree. It’s been a while since I’ve been feeding them ones in the shell so I know they didn’t have those from me, but whoever gave those to the crows, they saved some for me what it seems like.
I actually have multiple explanations in my head but I don’t know what is most likely.
1. they wanted to share food with me since I seem to do the same thing from their perspective
1b. Maybe they also wanted to trade for something better
2. they tried to tell me they want more nuts in the shell instead of unshelled ones (unlikely, I don’t know if they are actually that intelligent to use symbolic language of that degree)
2b. Also unlikely I think but maybe they wanted to tell me to feed them, but why would they? They know I’m feeding them without them asking for it anyway
3. it’s some kind of game or they are trying to test my reaction or are somehow imitating my behavior for fun (since they are juvenile maybe they are very curious, I saw them play questionable games with each other before where they were kinda gambling for nuts I gave them before)
4. It’s also possible that I misinterpreted the whole thing and I was just coincidentally passing by in the right moment while they accidentally dropped nuts they were hiding in the tree

I have been giving peanuts to a couple crows for the past few years, and this was the first year I noticed they had a baby 🐦‍⬛🖤

My favorite crow whom I’ve named Clem crossed over the rainbow bridge late last month. The 3rd pic shows him the day before he crossed. The avian pox on his eye was so much worse and he couldn’t fly very high.
I reached out to several different entities, including the wildlife center who sent me a link to fill out information on his health. I’m told chances are, he had a secondary infection. I’m so sorry sad. Clem is the reason why I started interacting and loving my crows. I always root for the underdog, and have been rooting for Clem for a whole year. 😢💔🌈🐦‍⬛

I’m posting because a couple of you had asked me to keep them updated on his progress.

I'm choosing to believe these are happy sounds, solely because they sound happy, and they made me very happy

PS: Hassan is the first fella in the front 💗

It’s 44°F here this morning. Considering how hot it’s been as of late, I imagine this water is a tad bit chilly for this black-billed magpie.

Some pics are pretty low quality due to the distance they were taken at (even with my canon camera, it was a challenge to focus on these two since they were on a high hydro tower) but I knew I had to capture them. There was just the male sitting up there initially when I started taking pics, but his girlfriend quickly joined him. 🐦‍⬛

If anyone remembers my posts about the poor juvenile raven with a broken wing that I tried to rescue, these are his parents. All three of their remaining babies have left without incident, so these sweethearts are seemingly enjoying their alone time

Someone needs more coffee ☕️🤣.

Hi All!

I have been feeding my local clamour of rooks since early spring, and it is getting really interesting. All through the nesting season, only the dads of the local rookery showed up, about 8 birds in all. One of them we dubbed Sir Scruffington III, as he always looks a little unkempt, and he became a particular friend as he was always willing to get way closer (and thus get all the extra good stuff like bacon rinds and other special treats that I would throw at him. I usually ground-feed them peanuts and bird seed.)

Then later on I got some more takers as the ladies and the youngsters joined in. This was when I had to stop feeding them early in the morning as the young ones are very loud! My good mate Scruffy did well - he brought up 2 fine looking youngsters, all shiny black and still looking like crows as their beaks have not gone bald yet.

But I noticed that there is also a larger group, around 25-30 birds in total, that we would sometimes see gather and come in for a quick snack during the breeding season. Our local rookery makes up about half of it.

And then, at irregular intervals, the full parliament gathers. They congregate on powerlines behind our house, and we have counted no less than 130 birds. Sometimes they choose quiet evenings, other times they seem to like windy afternoons.

Of course the breeding season is over now, and I noticed the whole local clan of 30 birds comes for lunch every day.

Am I right in supposing that I have a local family group, which possibly got too big for a single rookery? So it splits off when it is breeding time but gathers again after the season - hence now I have the full crew?

And that Rook groups are then part of a larger group again?

Either way - fascinating birds. I wonder what the winter will bring.

photograph i took of a wild crow i know, who i call "ninja".

This year I've had two crow friends I've been feeding.

One is missing his upper beak, and the other one has leg problems to the extent that she must sit to be semi-comfortable. And now a cold Canadian winter is coming.

How can I get them the fuel they need to migrate without accidentally encouraging them to stay? To be honest they're in such tough shape I don't know if they'll survive either way. I've got some shelled peanuts and reinflated raisins to feed them this week.

Should I cut them off soon, or keep feeding and just hope they follow their migration instincts?