Do you feed the birds, and do they recognize you?

[NorthEndGal]

I "have" a crow, as in, one that comes everyday to have a snack and a natter.
I call him Roger, and he is lovely, to my mind.
I have got to the point where he will sit and eat beside me, but not yet willing to take food from my hand.

Im pretty sure I'm not the only one being trained by a bird to bring them food
Any one else,?

Yes, I feed the crows in our local park. Yesterday I was walking through with heavy shopping. I got a text message so I put the shopping down and stopped to read the message (in case it was one of those 'can you pick up X from school types ones). When I looked up two crows were standing expectantly in front of me!

My PIL has a blackbird that looks through the patio doors for them, waits by the back door for them to come out & follows them into the garage to get the bird food out!

That is so lovely 🥰 my dad ‘had’ a robin as a gardener he would throw him a worm or two. Dad’s passed now and I wonder if the robin looks for him

“Roger”
The birds here seem to know I’m the one who brings the seed out.

A robin owed me for about a year , I fed it dried meal worms and peas ( he did not like corn )
I would walk into my local park and whistle and he would go and sit on the same bit of wall 🐤

These sound great, I've never had a go at bird having before, I'm quite enjoying it!

When I go outside in the morning I hear the calling sounds begin from tree to tree, in expectation of chopped peanuts.

For some reason the parakeets that have moved into my trees stop making their awful racket for a while and let their feathery companions announce my arrival to their mates.

At the moment I have woodies, a robin and far too many magpies, am wondering where the blackbirds have gone and the little birds.

Wary of feeding them as one got taken a while back by a hawk, and I am fond of my pigeons, love it when they sit flat on the grass to get the warmth in the mornings.

@DontCallMaShitley that's amazing, I'd love to be able to have so many come around.
I'll need to up my feeding game!

This is Rog, this afternoon, trying to carry allll the weiners , at once , like they were groceries coming in from the car trunk😁

I love that you have been adopted by Rog. Though I would have to change his name to Sheryl.

Yes corvids (crows, magpies, jackdaws, rooks) can genuinely recognise faces, so Roger knows you (and has probably given you an appropriate name!
Your very lucky, look after roger.

I do feel lucky, but I'm pretty sure I'm now known as Weiners Lady in the corvid world.
Slightly better than being the Nuts and/or Buns lady?

Corvids are all very clever, so it's not at all surprising that Roger recognises you. There was some research that showed that crows etc can bear a grudge against a human who has wronged them, so make sure you stay on the right side of Rog.

@NorthEndGal I have made the garden as natural as possible, we have tall trees at the end, as do some of the neighbours, but for some reason the parakeets have moved over to mine (wish they would go somewhere else, the noise is terrible).

Pigeons are sweet, gentle souls, every year there is just one egg shell and I am never sure if it hatched or was taken by a predator One year there was a squab lying on the grass, already dead before I found him/her, poor little thing.

We had a Roger and his friends, they seem to have moved on, unless it is the wrong time of year, and less magpies. Sometimes there is a jay or woodpecker. Where I lived before there were all manner of birds. We get ducks flying over and there are Canadian geese there are some living not too far from here, they things hold the traffic up many times a day, crossing with their brood, one parent in front and one behind. I hope they all survive.

If you want more birds you need to find out what they want to eat and have trees and hedges.

We have a pigeon that we appear to have adopted recently, not named him yet but he's very sweet and has become accustomed to me being in the garden with him now. He's a bit of a ladies man too

We've been adopted by a woodpigeon, though haven't given him a name. He appears to be be a young male, with no mate. He does try to get frisky with the ladies, much to their horror, and guards his patch quite ferociously, even against jackdaws.

When he's not stuffing his face (rare) he likes to come and watch me eat.

He also thinks he's smaller than he is.

Many comedy moments as he learned how to fly at exactly the right angle to insert himself in this bird table. I freaked him out, the other day, by cleaning the windows. He was running around the garden like a headless chicken.

We have a pair of collared doves that visit every year. This year they had three young, and then brought some pals along as well. I think I counted 18 in the garden at one point!

We also have house sparrows that nest in the roofs, much to the annoyance of the neighbours but our delight. And a whole load of others. It's the ravens who have been annoying me this year though - they turn up early and empty all the feeders as soon as, so the other poor birds don't get a look in. Luckily they seem to have flown away in the most part.

H2O squirrel proof feeders seem to deter corvids pretty well. Our jackdaws are most pissed off that they can't nab the fatballs any more. The blackbirds have them sussed, though, even the baby who only fledged a couple of weeks ago.

Yes, I have some tiny ones, must check what breed, they take seed from my hand if I sit still enough.

I've got a crow, it sits in a tree and watches me through the kitchen window on a morning when I'm getting the bird food ready. It's very wary and won't come down until I've gone back in.
Got a family of noisy magpies that do the same, though they are bolder.
Small birds come to the hedges when I go out in the morning, waiting for the food.

I'm doddery on my feet (fell and broke bones twice while putting bird food in trees so now it goes on the ground.

Every morning I pull back the curtain and open the patio doors and there' sits a robin, patiently waiting. I call him Ichabod (since no-one on Baby Names Board on here will use the name for their son) Ichy for short He loves Wilco's fruity pellets. He is really bold and sits on the basket of my mobility scooter while I am getting it ready to go out.

He doesn't eat much but sees off all comers until he has finished. Then come the sparrows, wood pigeons, collared doves, blackbirds, magpies, starlings, and other assorted birds. A jay appeared once, that was really exciting.

I place a very large pot tray (approx 2 feet across, 2 inches deep) on the lawn and fill it with water and love watching all the birds hop into it to ruffle their feathers and have a good bath. The water reaches part way up a sparrow but when a wood pigeon decides to have a go it's only up to his knees and he ruffles so hard all the other birds scatter

I used to have a female blackbird who would fly in through the open kitchen door and steal the cat’s food out of her bowl! Annoyingly, she didn’t like the jelly, just the meaty lumps, so would shake and scatter the jelly all over the floor.
A friend has a seagull who comes back every summer. He raps on the conservatory roof with his beak at 4pm on a daily basis, until she goes out and feeds him bacon scraps.

I've been trained by a very scruffy little robin who comes and whistles until I feed him/her.
If I'm not outside with food at the required times, the robin sits on the garden gate so it can look into the kitchen and see if I'm there.

When I lived abroad, I had a little bird who used to knock on the window with his beak if I forgot to give him his breakfast

I live in hope of the day he asks for me at the window 😄

If I leave cat food out and the door open the magpies will come and take it. Have to ensure the door is closed if I am not there to guard it.

Last year there was a young woodie with a limp, I hope he is OK because he vanished, usually have 2 pairs and a few extras but this year I have only see one pair and another male. I have noticed a bird shortage, and my handsome crows especially.

We have a very intelligent magpie. He comes along picks up a piece of bread from the bird table and if he thinks it's a bit dry he dunks it in Sparklingcat's water bowl, and swooshes it about a bit then eats it.