u/Constant_Captain_910

Just wanted to share a sweet story about my crowbros that I have been feeding from my balcony for 3 years now. I had the privilege to be introduced to their babies almost every year. A crow couple and magpie couple would bring their little ones while they were still quite small and teach them that I am a safe person which always warmed my heart. Finally this spring it was my turn to introduce my first born daughter to my bros and I didn’t expect to observe such a change in their behaviour. The day before I went into labour we were building a pram in out living room and magpie who usually spends no more than 30 sec on my balcony and is quite skittish, watched us build it for 20 min while doing the slow blinks which I never seen her do before. Then a jay that was visitor of my balcony only one nesting season 2 years ago and had one baby which she proudly shown to me but never appeared again randomly lands and stares at me for a while. It even crossed my mind that maybe this is a sign I am going into labour soon. Sign or not, but my waters broke next morning.
From the day we brought our daughter back both crows and magpies started acting completely differently. They never paid particular attention to inside our room or reacted to any changes, so I was not sure if they will even notice anything but as soon as they saw the baby they started spending hours just watching her and slowly blinking. While I have a great bond with the crow and he likes to spend his time on our balcony, for magpie this was completely unexpected. Also as the nesting season is in full swing so crow was visiting less but since baby’s arrival he is pretty much always here. Today I had to enter the balcony to check on my plants and I usually do it very carefully not to spook him, but he didn’t even move and remained completely calm and gave me the slowest blinks ever with white lid covering the eye for quite a while.
I just can’t believe how intelligent these birds are and how lucky I am to share this special bond, which hopefully my daughter will get to experience as well.