r/crows

It’s back! Opened the door and heard him. The second I walked out he flew up to me

Every morning I drink my coffee and have a quick chat with my resident crow. Whenever she hears the patio door, she comes flying over and settles down next to me. We’ve been working on our relationship for two years now. But I have to admit, my aim isn’t to tame her. Things are fine just as they are. 😊

Oh, and she’s at war with my maple tree. She eyes its growth with utter contempt, and as the day goes on, her hostility becomes increasingly physical.

Just wondering if anyone with experience knows what this little guy was trying to communicate?

For context, this is a beach/park that I frequent and the crows around here know me well. On a typical day, it would be weird if someone didn’t float down from the sky to say hello when I arrive. Not all but quite a few are comfortable sitting beside me just to chill or take peanuts or raisins from my hand.

This encounter started that way. I was going for a walk along the beach. He/she was directly ahead doing important crow business and flew to me after noticing me. After crouching down to give the usual treat, it eventually had its fill and lost interest in the food but stayed with me and made these vocalizations for the next 5ish minutes. I’ve done a bit of reading over the past year to understand their behaviour better but wanted to ask more knowledgeable people what it likely was trying to communicate.

13 days ago, my friend and I got a crow caller bc we love crows and I never see them in my area. (I have a small backyard and live behind a Target so I don't see much wildlife.) So we go outside in the morning and I used the caller, "caw caw caw" and we heard "caw caw caw" from way across the shopping center parking lot. We laughed at the timing but assumed it was just a coincidence and not that a crow was responding. I did the caller again, maybe 5 times in 3 short bursts, and a crow started circling about 30 ft overhead. He would "caw" and I would "caw" back. Then 2 more crows came and we cawed back and forth. Then 4 more. Then 4 more. Within one minute, 23 crows were circling above us cawing at us every time we cawed at them. It was amazing! It lasted a few minutes then they all dispersed and we were on cloud nine that the caller worked! I wanted to make crow friends and feed them!

I didn't use the caller again and no crows came by for a few days. Then, 4 days after the 23 circling crows, a single crow flew over to the tree in my backyard when I went out to vape in the morning and started cawing at me, non-stop, in 5-12 bursts. He wasn't aggressive but he's LOUD as he's only about 15 ft above me. I work from home and step outside to vape 8-10 times throughout the day/night and every time, he flies over (from seemingly out of nowhere), perches above me and caws CONSTANTLY. When I go back inside, he flies off.

It doesn't matter what time of day it is. It's been as early as 430am and as late as 845pm. I talk to him and he hops to another branch once in awhile and sometimes pecks at the branch he's on, but otherwise it is this (in the video) non-stop for 5 min at a time, 8 to 10 times a day. I have 40+ videos of him doing this every time I go out. I'm not kidding when I say he never stops until I'm inside and he always comes when I'm out there. *This video was taken from inside my house when he saw me heading to the sliding door to go out there*

I've tried leaving unsalted peanuts for him (while he watches me) but he never takes them - eventually I see a squirrel swoop in and grab them (when I'm back inside).

Idk what he's telling me but it's LOUD and CONSTANT. I just wanted to feed a crow friend and I think he hates me?? 😭 What do I do??

- If he thinks I'm a threat, why bother coming over here at all? No crows ever came to my yard before calling them.

- No other crows ever show up so I don't think he's calling them?

- He doesn't swoop down or dive bomb, just caws and hops around from branch to branch once in awhile.

- There's no nest he's protecting

- This isn't normally a territory of his/theirs that I'm infringing upon

- I haven't ever used the crow caller except that one time

My neighbor yelled out his window once telling the crow to shut up bc he's so loud and it's non-stop.

Is there any chance he likes me? Or have I made a crow enemy? I'm so sad and stressed 😞 I love birds.

My husband found a crow at his work and insisted on bringing it home. He said it was sitting on a mini dump truck he has at work and stayed there his whole shift so he brought it home. He thinks it's a young crow because it has some pin feathers under the wings. We are currently keeping him in a box in our garage because we have other animals we don't want to have contact with just in case. Tried giving him pulled pork and water for now because we know they are scavengers. My husband wants to raise him back to health so we can befriend more crows potentially. Is this a wise course of action? If anyone has advice it would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: It sat next to him on his dump truck while he drove it around his whole shift just chillin and by the end of the shift the other crows that were there were all gone, which is why he brought him home cuz it was night and he didn't want a predator to eat him

Edit: We brought the crow back to where it was found. We think he is safe with the other crows now. Thanks all for your concerns and advice

I've been spending my early mornings and after-work time on the back deck with this crow for about 3 weeks.

Tonight, she (I named her Margarwt for conversational reasons) finished her food on her crow-cuterie board and saw that there were two more peanuts in my hand. I held one out to her. Amd she took it She flew off after taking the first one from here in the video. The second peanut, she took and ate on the banniater.

I don't plan on hand feeding her, she just knew that I had more and i thought I would offer.

I think we are friends now because I was obviously going to eat those two peanuts myself amd gave them up to her.

There is this one squirrel terrorizing my yard. I believe the food I put out for the crows initially drew him in and now he loves digging up my plants. The other day, around 5:30 AM, I woke up to a bunch of thudding noises. Went live on my camera and, sure enough, my crows were attacking the squirrel!

So this happened an hour ago, round 1 AM, my mom heard crows (not sure how many but at least 2) screaming EXTREMELY loud outside. Like, aggressively loud. She told me to go check if they were killing another crow or something.

I go outside and literally as I'm looking up at the tree, a baby crow falls from WAY up high and lands right in front of me. And it's already dead. Not struggling, not moving - just gone.

The second it hit the ground, all the crows went completely silent. Like someone flipped a switch.

I spent about an hour with the bird checking if maybe it was just paralyzed or stunned from the fall. I watched his chest carefully to see if it was moving up and down at all. I checked for any slight movements. I examined his whole body for injuries - the only thing I found was a tiny wound on his neck with barely any blood. The bird looked pretty developed for a baby, so it wasn't a helpless newborn.

But no matter how long I watched, he wasn't breathing. He was definitely dead.

I buried him after. Rest in Peace my Baby🖤

Now I'm confused about what I actually witnessed. Why were they screaming at 1 AM? Why did a baby that far up in a tree just... fall? Why was it already dead when I found it? And why did everything go silent instantly after?

I live in Germany and there's a fox around that hunts rats sometimes. No idea if that matters.
Does anyone know what could've happened?

My partner and I have been feeding crows on Craiglockhart hill in Edinburgh (giving them peanuts) for about 6 months. Today our favourite (named Simon) stole a golf ball from the course over the fence & delivered it to me!

From my last post, what's on his wing? Got 2 slightly better photos. I couldn't update my original post or post photos in the comments there, sorry!

No filtering on this picture either. Just straight up, "Damn I'm good " Bully Boy. And he knows it. 😎 Morning rays.

Does anyone know what the white thing is coming off the left wing?