I really want some crow friends!

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I am becoming obsessed with crows! There are a few that hang around near my house (we live near the town centre, so pretty urban). I have started carting around peanuts with me and I feed them whenever I see them.
Now they are beginning to be a bit more brave and also seem to hang around in my front garden. Is it possible that they recognise me?
Does anyone have crow friends that can give me tips to encourage them?
We have many many seagulls around here, so if I leave food out I think it will just attract seagulls/foxes/rats!

Crows can recognise individual people. Enjoy your new feathered friends.

Crows definitely recognise and remember individual humans. Peanuts are considered a 'high value' treat for them so they're a good way to make friends. Eggs (whole uncooked or scrambled with no salt or other additives), meat scraps, and suet pellets all tend to go down well with them but I know people whose local crows love fruits that other people's local crows won't touch so you might need to experiment a bit.

All I would say is if you're thinking of trying to do something like set a consistent feeding time or get them always feeding in the same place, make sure you can properly commit to it. If you let them down they can be incredibly unforgiving!

A crow in a crowd is a rook, is it not? They may be rooks if that bothers you?

Cool!! Maybe I'll try this...

I feed my local ones with peanuts as I walk through a stretch of parkland. They quite often follow me. I'm hoping this year to get them to come even cloerd.
I'm usually followed by 4 or 5 of them from one end of my walk to the other.
Am hoping to be known as the Crow Witch.

Yes yes yes, they remember when you're kind or someone to be avoided.

They're quite affectionate little beasts really.

I love crows, they are so clever

Just make sure you never upset them. There was an infamous Mumsnet post about a lady who upset the crows at her local park and she never came back to update the post…….

Rooks and jackdaws are both more likely to be found in very large groups but crows do flock. The ones that live in our local park remind me of a gang of teenage boys shuffling about with their hands in their pockets 😆 Especially when you catch them pulling things out of a bin and they hop away looking delighted with themselves.

Black all over, shaggy, feckin enormous: raven
Black all over, sleek, not feckin enormous: crow
Black with a pale grey face: rook
Black with a dark grey head and blue eyes: jackdaw
Black with red legs: chough

www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2020/01/rook-crow-or-raven/

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4974597-to-be-scared-that-im-still-marked-by-the-crows?page=1

I love crows!

I live in a very urban area and we seem to be overrun with crows, squirrels, foxes, magpies and now beautiful green parakeets.

The parakeets make an awful racket as they're so screechy but so beautiful to look at.

@Gliblet

what do you mean they can be unforgiving

as in they might attack you if you don’t show up at regular intervals 😂😂

Ooh yeah they keep their scorecard

Has been known (see above) 😁 More often though once they decide you're not worth the effort they'll never bother with you again no matter what you put out for them.

Easier with magpies. Here I am with mine…

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So as PPs have Said, it’s patience and consistent. Mine comes in the house but you do have to secure all jewelry. He’s specially partial to watches

Food same time every day. Oh and they decide which time that will be of course.

I have a whole flock of them! I think most of them are ravens as they have fluffy legs, which crows lack. Some are smaller - those are crows, I think, and we have greybacks too, and magpies. They visit at the same time as the feral pigeons and the collared doves. I give them a chopped-up apple every morning, plus they eat peanuts out of the various bird feeders (which are frequented by bluetits, chaffinches, great tits, coaltits and robins). Most days they're sitting on the overhead wires waiting for me when I take the food out.

The bird-feeding area is next to the kitchen window where I sit most days - they're a continual source of entertainment - and the breeding season is coming, along with fluffy newbie birds and attentive parents. It's all rather lovely!

Here's a couple of members of 'my' flock a few weeks ago.

Mine like meal worms, cheese, and left-over meat.
I put out halved apples and manky fruit too, which the blackbird likes.

Corvids are fascinating! Read up on line about them and enjoy!

Oh My! I am so excited.
I am going to be the Crazy Crow Lady!