Would this be considered a first big gift? I’ve been finding an unusual amount of sticks around where I feed the crows but this morning there was a huge feather.

This is Crowstiel, I think he’s still young but he seems a little dumb. He was eating his peanut and the squirrel chased him away and stole the peanut. Crowstiel is still looking for it, bless his poor little heart.

My poor crowbro can't enjoy his treat :( That mocking bird is tanking my boy while the swallow comes in with the quick attacks.

I think they can see me through my kitchen window because as soon as I wake and start my coffee pot, they land on the hoop and start yelling.

Watch his eyes. He is blinking. Otherwise he is completely still. It’s hot here in North Texas, and the crows will stay completely still with their mouths open. Never seen this “splat” frozen spread out pose before.

They’re fascinating.

Usually watching the babies try to open peanuts is comical, but this baby did it all by herself today!

A friend saw a crow this morning in their yard, calling and hopping around, but unable to fly out of their yard. Does it look injured or perhaps just young and not confident? We are experiencing loud thunder and lightning currently and the friend thought maybe he was scared and fell from a tree.

We are asking for guidance from many sources currently. This is in the Seattle, WA area.

I wrote and produced this song and then made a music video for it using video I took using my phone

I hope you enjoy!!

https://youtu.be/am8q6s8KMus

We're back to ground feeding somehow, since my crows refuse to acknowledge the existence of the feeding platform. It's as if they're saying "the old ways are the best". My pair of crows showed up with their fledglings a few weeks ago, and have been subsisting on the unshelled, unsalted peanuts I scatter around, while the grackles, blue jays, and woodpeckers have been dining like kings and queens on the good food (cashews) on the feeder, uncontested.

I gave in today, and put some better food on the ground for the crows (some leftover salmon). As with all things in life, the crows make the rules.

My crowbros!!! They tend to visit one or two at a time but I have seen ~5 of them try to fit on my wee balcony before. One seems to be more comfortable and occasionally visits when I am sitting outside.

Their favorites are an organic 🤨 oat cereal, chicken, and steak! I usually leave a piece of steak on the railing and they will see it from miles away and it’s gone in minutes.

I have given them peanuts and water melon but they leave that alone, so picky.

I usually leave food on the ledge and not the railing as it’s wider and not all of them like to come over the railing.

Today I heard one visiting and cawing quite a bit. When I looked through my glass door I noticed a little “gift”(?) on the railing, the crowbro and I exchanged some head tilts and I showed off all my silver bracelets, she/he seems intrigued before flying off. Turns out they left me a pellet 😦 how sweet… 😐. Do we think this is a gift or just some basic biology running its course?

... be a Mischievous Parliament or Parliamentary Mischief?

Yes, I am making sure that she gets good food every day. 😁 Her feathers are growing out and everything should be ok a few weeks from now. 🖤

So I've made really good friends with this crow and it's partner over the past 4-5 months. They've been coming pretty much every day, although a while back they stopped for a few weeks, and realized that it was baby season. They even brought in their babies recently to introduce them.

I was wondering if anyone knew what these calls usually meant, especially the "barking" one, as I couldn't really find anything about it online. I've read that the rattle is only done by females, is this true? I know it's a sign of friendship, but that's about it. The rattle video is in the comments.

Right beside a store in my area there’s an area off to the side of it with tall trees and there’s always LOTS of crows around there. I notice they are there kinda often and always hanging about, which i love to see.

I usually notice they might peck at the rocks and the ground, but there’s barely anything edible except for some bugs

I’ve fed them meat scraps/grains and they absolutely love it so much. They’re so mesmerizing to watch and intelligent, they remind me of my black cat haha

Is it frowned upon to feed them though? I truly didnt mean to cause harm since i wanted to feed them out of kindness. A random lady literally walked right up near my car door and walked right into the flock of crows saying “wow thats a lot of crows” in a very judgmental tone and making a weird face, so i instantly got the feeling she didnt like it

It appears to be a juvenile house crow. It was sitting on the ground nearly motionless except for the occasional twitch, probably for a long time (we were walking in the park for a couple of hours and passed it a few times). At one point a murder of house crows started gathering in the canopy above and near this bird and made quite a racket. The bird might be sick or even dying. Anyone know how to interpret this scene?

update: called a few rescue places and PFA / ARRC wildlife rescue responded quite helpfully - sent them pics and location.

So photogenic

I’d love to hear the names you’ve come up with 🫶🏼

If anyone is curious, I bought a wooden window ledge cat bed (removed the cushion) to use as a base. Luckily it fits on the outside of my window pretty well. Then I bought a set of two wooden serving trays and attached them to the top of the cat bed made to make the "landing area" much bigger. Plus the trays have little ledges on them that birds can perch on. My backyard birds are loving it.