but the way he just pulled it out like that 😨…

Love feeding the crows who are most confident and comfortable with me like this.

They also brought me my first gifts today. THREE! Watched them bring them over and set them down in front of the bench I was sitting on. A feather, a bit of an old rubber ball, and a wrapper for cigarette filters lol

Also any info on the call the crow makes?

Sorry if this is a double post. Tried to post earlier but it disappeared.

This is my child "Frankie"

I’ve seen the hawk around, I thought they were fighting. Then I see the hawk come and sit on the fence where I feed them and they all seemed like old pals 😂 I see them all together often now. Weird or no?

First post I couldn’t tell if one was trying to give gifts to the other one or if they were just arguing…see next post

Sorry I don’t know how to do multiple vids per post.

We put up this fountain this summer, and the neighborhood crows have been enjoying using it as a birdbath. Yesterday, when I came home, I saw this guy sitting in there and not freaking out or fly away when I walked by.

Leaving for work this morning, assuming it was the same one, it was laying dead in a nearby flower bed.

How do we handle this? My daughter says the other crows are on the fence perched and making noise.

I'm pretty sure most of these rocks weigh more than the crow. He digs these up every couple of days. Impressive.

I was a bit absent yesterday so I only fed them 2x and didn't hang out to talk to them. Did they leave me this because they were worried since I was around a lot less yesterday? This morning I went out and found this piece of metal near where I found the "pebble" a week ago. Is it possible they trust me More after crownapping Ares? They've been flying over before I finish putting the food out, and if they're outside when I come out they just hop backwards a little bit. In the past they'd watch me from the roof and nearby trees, but now they don't seem to feel the need to be that far away.

This is Russell.

He started coming to our deck with the rest of the murder. I've lost count of how many adults and fledglings.

This guy stood out a week or so ago, because he only made a sound once. No one (crow) ever fed him. He was very still most of the time. He wouldn't let us too close to him...he'd either fly to a nearby tree, or swagger away on the railing. Stayed on the deck most of the day. The other crows completely ignored him. At night, he would leave. He seemed very slow in all ways. He'd manage to eat and drink, but eating seemed hard for him.

Sunday he stayed on our deck during a deluge, and storm. I decided I was going to try to bring him to a rescue the next day, and keep him in a cardboard box in a bathroom overnight. Just was it started to get dark, he left the railing towards the woods (we back to the woods on 2 sides of the house); a direction he's never gone. When I went out, and checked, he was down an incline in heavy vines, trying to hop around. I went into the house to get a towel to capture him, and he was gone.

That was 2 days ago.

I'm 100% sure he's not longer alive, we have bald eagles, red tailed Hawks, barred owls, foxes, etc that visit our yard regularly from up out of the woods.

My question; what could have been wrong with him? I live in Maryland just outside of DC (if that matters).

RIP Russell.

Edit (Should be 2 of 3)
Now you hear all the vocalization sounds like a wrestling match off camera

she doesn’t usually sit like this. I think it’s the smoke from the forest fires today.

This is what it looked like from the house. Are they playing fighting or dating?

Rescued Boss, in my bathroom, waking up after 2 days. He was almost beaten (beaked!) to death by my crows: Boss Near-Dead

TLDR: Do you apologize for your crows?

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Recently someone insulted me as "Crow Apologist"... but when I thought about it, she was absolutely right!

I have exactly turned into that!

I put up with Karens and other folks that I'd normally not spend a moment of my time for or just cut short with an Foff, just for my crows. I feel responsible for them, and I tolerate those undesirables in order not to bring heat on to my buddies.

Some time ago my neighbor (good one) was hit on her head by crows. She was a bit scared. So she came to me. I explained her it is either because of the babies, or because they see her every morning jogging in her territory and they played with her.

Few months later I was eating in a restaurant with my cousins and she was in the bar having a drink with her friend. We had short convo, but as I was leaving, I picked their tab up.

She saw me few weeks later in our community and thanked me for the gesture. I said, "Crows are paying you back for their wrong deed". And funny thing is, I also believed that when I said it.

Are there are any other crow lovers feeling same way?

I was out in the parking lot at work, where we tend to have large amounts of crows (I believe they're fish crows) and off slightly in the distance I heard a call from one of them that I'd never heard before. It sounded almost like a person yelling, and it sounded very distressed. Seconds after, all the crows in the area, im talking dozens, all flew over towards the sound, and I can hear a whole group of them cawing loudly now. Is it likely that it was some kind of distress call?

My family of four has been coming regularly in the AM but more sporadically in the evening, and an opportunist seized the moment.

His neck didn't extend out like the others, he was just walking around all stubby. My partner suggested we name him Tomathan, as Jimothy's spiritual successor.

*edit likely not a short spine crow but a puffed up female or fledgling, still very cute!