To love crows

[stillvicarinatutu]

Frivolous thread.

Sick of doom and gloom.

I absolutely love crows . All corvids really but crows are just ace .

I love the way they stand in the road like "come on then car ....come and have a go if you think you're hard enough "

I love their attitude. I love how they walk .

I'd love to find a baby crow or a raven that needed rearing . They're just so hard !
Recently saw a you tube video of. Crow that fed a mouse that was trying it's luck with a bread bun the crow had ....crow broke a bit off and took it to the mouse .
That is one intelligent bird . I love them.

It's probably just as well for humankind that flying is so useful to birds but constrains their size.

The cat we had when I was a child was capable of catching seagulls, but never had a chance with the magpies. They'd sit on the ridge of an old building behind our house, apparently oblivious to the cat stalking towards them along it... till the last moment when they'd up and fly to the other end. I'm pretty sure they were taking the piss.

An old guy was feeding them regularly and he showed me how the crow he fed would wait to see how much food there was, before deciding how much to eat on the spot and then carrying the rest off to share with its family.

I live in an area with lots of farms so they are nit popular around here, I don' mind them. We keep hens and when we go down to let them out and put food out, a chorus starts. We have a lot of birds coming to nick the hens'food and they clearly recognise us.

My neighbour used to feed them and they'd line pebbles up for her on her wall.

I want mine to leave pebbles for me!😭😭 Come on crows...show some gratitude dammit.

One of our crows left us a roll-up cigarette butt as a present. It was placed right by our door. I think he must have seen one of the workmen in our area smoking and thought we’d like it!

Love them.

Such clever birds.

I don’t mind them, but I went off them a bit after I watched a baby bird take its first flight out of its nest, and me and my son were watching it hop about at the park, then a crow swooped down and ate it! Circle of life I suppose.

I love them so much, I talk to them and they leave bottle tops and other treasure where I put the feed out. They are also fantastic parents and so patient with their squawking youngsters. Totally agree with you op and they should get more love.

I recommend 'Corvus:a life with birds ' by Esther Woolfson.
I'm a raven fan but know they can cause carnage with sheep and lambs.

Omg 🤣🤣🤣💀

When I go out in the mornings with the bird food (usually leftover bits of food and leftovers from my cockatiels) there is always one waiting in the oak tree who loudly alerts all the birds in the vicinity, and they all descend before I've got back to the backdoor.
I've learned that crows like toast, pizza crust and pasta, Magpies like bits of catfood, and Pigeons like seed. Squirrels love sunflower seeds too.
As Autumn approaches there will be a huge battle in and around the oak tree between the squirrels and the Jays over the acorns its very entertaining.

I love them too.

Love their sideways walk. Like Keith Richard’s returning home after a three day bender.

My fav bird by a mile. They live in family groups - big groups in trees are ravens - and the siblings sometimes help raise newbies. They can count allegedly. And learn to recognise individual humans. Plus they're beautiful and strong and fucking hard core.

Just adorable

We have one locally called Derek it swoops at people and looks through windows

They're great. Highly intelligent birds.

I have found my tribe. I absolutely adore corvids, I even have a couple of raven tattoos. My crow family sit on the fence in th emorning waiting for their breakfast. They have nver brought me any presents though.

The crows by us take great delight at teasing the seagulls. When the seagulls are nest building on the dormer roofs by us. They do a distraction dance at one end of the roof and another Knicks a bit of nest, then the seagull goes after him, and the other nicks a bit of nest, I love it. The ones at Dh's work used to bring a walnut from the orchard nearby and stand on the wires over the road and drop it on the cement to break it. If it didn't break they placed it in a good spot and waited for a car to drive over it for them.

Once saw a white one! Not albino, didn't have pink eyes. I know they are meant to do very badly, but this one was a feisty little thing and delighting in being fed bits of people's picnics in a layby that was clearly his "turf"!

I too share the corvid love!

Who could not love that?!

Wee orphaned baby crow getting spoon-feed cat food by his human foster momma.

<Exploding ovary warning for the NOM NOM NOM noises>

They nest in the trees in my garden.

Loads of them, I would say about 15 nests.

My garden joins a farmers field. Farmers wife, elderly and unwell could not bear their call, it is loud and so they got a local man to come and blow out the nests, this is all new to me having not long lived in the country side.

So this man would turn up in his Land Rover, with his shot gun.

My DGD was over and saw him and was absolutely horrified, she cried.
I spoke to him and explained, he was totally understanding and apologised to DGD and hasn't been back since.

I actually like their call, they are so vocal, chatterboxes I think too.

My DH was all for the blowing out because he didn't like their call and entertained these death and murder connotations. I had a word with him and told him to not impose such morbid tales on nature and reminded him that every creature has a right to be.

Apologies, they are actually rooks that nest in my trees as the small DGS of another neighbour told me when I called them crows.

I'm about to dog walk and indulge in those videos !