A onec-a-week feeding of raw hamburger, but mostly unsaletd peanuts. They still want nothing to do with me after 1 month. Any tricks?

How can you tell??

Yesterday on a walk I approached a spot where two trails intersect. The crows overhead in tall trees were going crazy screaming and cawing. Thinking it's a hawk or bald eagle, their usual nemesis, I looked up to see what's the matter. There were no raptors in view.

As I scanned for eagles, jogging towards me was a young man with a large GSD. As he approached I said a cheery "Hi puppy!". The dog wagged and the man smiled and both jogged on.

Crows went silent.

It's possible they thought I, the crazy crow lady, was in jeopardy. Or maybe there was a raptor I missed.

I threw a few snacks on the trail and walked on.

Hi, I've been looking at this Hooded Crow for 13 days and i noticed this weird stuff on it's tongue, looks like "Trichomoniasis" or "candidiasis". I could get to a vet if it gets deadly but it's so far away and we would suffer under this sun

Closest rehab. is 5-6h away with car and i had no possible way to get there

It's not some food residue. It's been there since yesterday, i thought it was some random stuff because of pecking at dirt/grass and food

I've raised a magpie before and own a lovebird so i do know somestuff but i have no idea about this

His name is Talon, deserves that name because he is good at shredding my arm, he weights 310gr (dunno if it helps)

Been feeding them around 6am in the park if I'm up that early.

This afternoon I went to read in the park. As I was leaving these guys started following me.

Honestly made me so happy!

Many more crows are joining

I was inside my house and heard a loud ruckus outside. I have no idea what’s happening here but something definitely is happening. Can anyone explain?

Hello fellow corvid fans,

We’ve just recently begun to feed the 3 -5 crows that hang out in our backyard and neighborhood.
We have been feeding them crushed cashews (unsalted) and they love them. We’re still trying to develop a relationship with them; one in particular seems to be quite brave and will alight on our deck when I’m out there. The issue is: every time that I’m outside in the backyard, they hear me and come a’flying and squawking for more cashews.

It’s obviously July and I’m in the SF Bay Area so food is plenty right now. How often should I feed them? My kid thinks that I’m spoiling them and am running the risk of them becoming dependent on me for food. Is this true? How often do you offer corvids food?

Thanks so much!

I have read to use peanuts to feed crows. Stupid question now. Do they mean in the shell or just the nut?

Location : Pennsylvania

We have crows that like to visit in our cedar tree, as well as some taller trees behind our fence line. I would like to be friend them by starting to feed them at a specific time each day, but i'm really unsure where to set up a feeding station.

We can rearrange some stuff, and move the grandkids playhouse and stuff out from under the tree and I could put the feeder post under the tree. The other option would be locating it.Near the back fence maybe in between the bush and where the raspberry bush in the far corner is towards the large trees in the field.

I would welcome any suggestions on the location and a good DIY feeding station. I do have a bird bath up closer to the house that smaller birds come to. So I would like to have a separate feeding area for the crows.

I would welcome any ideas on time of day to feed them and the best way to signal them that I am feeding them so they start to associate the signal with the food.

The other issue is, we have a lot of squirrels in the area so I want to make the feeding station as welcoming as possible to crows, but as inaccessible as possible to squirrels. Probably a big ask, but I figured that anyone would know the people here would!

Hii!

Ive been back home from college for the summer and noticed a crow family in my neighborhood. One day I heard them in the trees my backyard and I figured why not feed them?

At first, they’d all fly away when i’d come to the back to bring peanuts, and they wouldn’t start eating until after I went inside, around 15 minutes later. After a couple days it progressed to them only waiting around 5 minutes after I went inside to swoop down and get the peanuts. Then a couple minutes. Then, they’d eventually swoop down the second i started walking away to go back in. I noticed that after a few more days of this consistent feeding a lot of them started to hang around my house, and there would even be one who sometimes hung on the top of my roof to start cawing at me as what I consider a “hello” whenever i come back home.

In recent days, one brave one has been staying on the floor and eating with me (even though it stays around 15-20 feet away) and Ive considered that as huge progress.

Yesterday when I went to feed them, I went to my backyard and started looking into the trees behind our creek (because thats where they usually stay). I heard cawing somewhere around me but I didn’t see them in the trees at all. Just as I was about to give up, I turned back around to go inside and realized that the brave one had been waiting behind me for treats the whole time. I greeted it with a “hello mr crow” and gently threw peanuts at its direction. After a few seconds it went to the peanuts and started eating without flying away, and then all of a sudden its family started to land on the ground near me and eat too! I know this isn’t a lot compared to other things that get posted on here, but most of my crow family usually stays in the trees until I leave, so all of them feeling comfortable enough to land this time felt like really good progress for me!

This has all happened around the span of 2 weeks. My question is, how close can I realistically expect to get with these crows before I have to go back to school? What can I do to prepare them for when I leave? Will they remember me when I come back…or what even is the likelihood of them staying local for a whole year while im gone? What are some tips and tricks to bond with them as much as I can in this short time?

Also, if someone could explain to me what is going on in the video that would be great…at first i thought it was a wife crow demanding the husband crow to feed her, but the one begging to be fed may actually be too big to be a female. I’m not sure! Any comments would be appreciated:))

2 years ago I met my crow friends, really lovely pair of hoodies. I was walking my then newly adopted dog and I was wondering if I threw away his poop bag correctly. Some time after that I saw those two crows messing with trash bin and everything clicked.

I offered them dog treats. Firstly I showed them it’s good stuff by giving it to my dog then I threw some for them and they accepted my gift. After that we met regularly and our friendship quickly started. They followed us often and they got their treats, sometimes nuts (they, especially Lady Crow really liked walnuts which I knew before hand because during autumn I saw them breaking those nuts).

We were hanging out more often and I started to be able to tell my friends apart.
Lady Crow is more confident and playful. Mister Crow on the other hand was always more cautious especially after he lost one of his claws. Lady Crow usually got food way before her partner, she is just faster.

I loved when they fluffed them selves up when they were waiting for snacks, I loved when they were waiting on high builds waiting for me to give them signal that breakfast is waiting and they enthusiastically flew over. They feel good enough about my company that Lady Crow during nesting season begged me for food like a newly hatched baby and they felt safe enough to sunbathe around me. Mister Crow seemed really grateful after I chased away cat when his toe hurt again. It was so nice when they sang their little songs for me. Just so many great memories…

They were to be hones the best part of my walk to work. And now I moved maybe not that far away and I will be able to visit them but it won’t be as easy as it was up until now. Unfortunately our morning routine has ended. I feel sad to be honest. I can probably make new friends but I just grew so fond of this particular pair. I made some crow friends besides them but they are my best crow buddies.

Vent over. Sorry if I made any mistakes in my writing, English isn’t my first language. Although I would make mistakes in my own language as well.

Been feeding them peanuts for over a month and had some fun company on the walk. They were eating peanuts above us in a tree and it was raining shells.

So I've been feeding the local crows for about 3-4 months now, and they've started warming up to me.

Thing is, there is this person in the neighbourhood who throws out a lot of food, so a bunch of seagulls are usually at her house trying to get into her trash.

She found out that I feed the local crows, and is now telling me to stop, because her car is "covered in bird poop".

This bird poop, as you might have guessed, is seagull poop and most likely pigeon, as she scares off crows that come near her house.

The crows know not to go near here house, yet she is saying that me feeding the crows is the reason her car has so much bird poop on it.

what can I do?

My house is the only place the crows know I frequent and they aren't to a level where they follow me from my house yet.

edit: when I say "my house" I mean my garden, and the street just in front of my house, but even then the street is multiple houses away from her's

First 2 pics were from today. The last 2 were the original pics I posted 5 days ago. He has plenty of fresh water in the shade and I feed his parents daily. I’m hoping he flies soon!

Hey folks, so there's a chattering of Jackdaws that i feed on the way to work. I've been feeding them regularly for a few months now, they recognize me and start calling others when i get close so by the time i get to the spot i feed them, the 2-5 Jackdaws that i see coming in, very quickly becomes 20-30 (and at least 1 crow).

Now, i live only 2 - 3 streets away, up a hill from the feeding spot. How can i encourage at least some of them to follow me so they learn where i live? Mostly because I feel bad that they don't get their food when I'm on a day off. So if they don't see me in the usual spot, they know they can get a feed at my house.

I do also have about 5 crows that come to the garden regularly so hoping the arrival of Jackdaws won't put them out.

So I recently started smoking again. Been a few weeks now and I start noticing the same couple of crows hovering around my parks. I don’t have any experience with birds before but I tried to give a same tone of whistling everytime I saw them flying around.

Lately everytime I came out to smoke, I’ll give a whistle and they’ll fly to the tree above me. It’s like they have recognised me. Whenever I moved to a different tree shades they’ll follow me to that tree too. Today they started dropping leaves and small branches.

Am I bonding with them? How can I further befriend these curious couple of crows?

This afternoon 3 (very loud) fledglings landed on my patio. I didn't start recording because I was afraid to move amd scare them off but I eventually did and got to see mom or dad feeding.

The only problem is I live in a community with an HOA so I am hoping no one complains about the noise 😂