u/GutterballGirl

Hi! I’ve been making friends with some of my neighborhood crows for about six months and I love seeing them hang around my back yard. I’ve been giving them fresh water along with fresh food for maybe two months, as the weather has warmed up, and today I woke up to feathers in the water dish. (Swipe for kind of gross photo)
It’s not the first time I’ve seen feathers, but the amount of them today is more than I’ve seen the past. The tinge of green in the water is normal, sometimes a bit of algae grows in the bottom of the dish for a couple days before I do a deep clean of the dish, but I rinse the dish out and give them fresh water every day. I’ve also never seen yellow feathers before. Is one of my buddies sick? Did they bring another dead bird here to pick it apart and eat it? I really don’t know what to make of this.
Any thoughts are appreciated!

Since January of this year, I’ve started putting out food to befriend the neighborhood crows. At first I was putting out peanuts in the shell, but after noticing empty shells strewn about my neighborhood, I switched to dry dog food and dried mealworms. Very quickly, crows began showing up and I’ve enjoyed watching them. They come every day now to hang out around my backyard, and don’t seem to mind when I hang out in the my backyard with them. They also seem pretty unconcerned about my dogs as long as the dogs don’t try to approach.
In the last few weeks as the weather has warmed (Seattle, WA), I’ve started putting out fresh water alongside the food, and I’ve noticed new sounds coming from my crow friends. Deeper noises, more clicking, and more hanging out with mouth open activities. Some of the birds I’ve seen are bigger, which I attributed to perhaps a parental breeding pair, but now I’m beginning to think that some of these birds may be ravens instead.
There’s definitely more than just two birds that come, but I often see a couple of large black birds. These are some photos taken over the last few weeks in my backyard. The pictures go from oldest to most recent. Crows or Ravens? 🐦‍⬛