Anyone know anything about 🐦⬛?
Last year I fell down a rabbit hole regarding crows - funnily enough it happened after reading a thread on here about their behaviour and intelligence.
I decided to start an experiment to determine how long it would take a group of crows to remember my face and start to trust me. So I started feeding a group of crows on the park behind my house. At first, only one crow would hang around but it stayed far away and would only come down for the food when I was safely away from it. Before long another crow turned up. So for months I was feeding two crows who kept their distance but seemed to recognise me. Eventually these two crows started waiting for me at the entrance to the park and if they weren’t there when I turned up - they showed up shortly afterwards. They were now getting a little closer too.
Fast forward to yesterday … 4 crows showed up 😂 I fed them all and they appeared to be following me at a distance.
Today - 4 crows all sat around waiting when I approached the park. As soon as I got in there they all flew closer and started positioning themselves on the ground around me - staring directly at me - watching my hands and getting quite close to me. I carried on walking and kept hearing funny little noises behind me and when I turned around - there they were - following closely behind. I fed them again and carried on walking only to see crows shooting past me and landing in front of me - staring at me. A little unnerved now I fed them again and carried on walking … this behaviour continued until suddenly it was like I’d crossed an invisible barrier that they all stayed behind as I walked away.
Fascinating - they even seem to have memorised my route as once they stopped following they all met up in an area where I need to walk past on my way out.
Am I doing anything wrong here? Are locals likely to complain? Will they start bothering other people and will they suddenly turn on me and attack me for my bird food? 😂