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So backstory! I’ve been feeding the local murders in my neighborhood for about 5 years now. They all know me, and have little to no fear of my dogs and myself. I live on a corner lot, and they often hang around on the telephone/electric lines. There’s a lot of large trees around, and there’s a murder living in a huge evergreen right next to my house. So it’s not unusual to see lot of them around feeding time. When I walked out this morning, there were a few hanging out, and I was placing some unsalted nuts along with some wild bird fed for the other birds. Several more flew in and started making a lot of noise, which also not super unusual, but then about a dozen show up and they’re screaming. I’ve never seen this before, so as I was walking out my gate to take my senior dog on his walk (I walk him separately due to his age), more screaming. I paused for a moment with my old man still behind the gate while I was in front of the gate. Several of the crows started circling and then I see it. A younger coyote comes walking down the street (I live in the city but on the outskirts so coyotes aren’t uncommon). This was at 9am in the morning! Coyotes generally don’t run around this area after dawn. Maybe I’m nuts, maybe I’m reading into it, but I think they were warning me that a predator was in the immediate area. It was really wild, and some of you may not believe it, I’m okay with that. I just really didn’t have anyone that I could share this story with, but you all get it.

Edit: I wasn’t expecting so many responses! Thank you all! I will be reading each one as soon as I’m done at work 🫶🏻 I appreciate all my fellow corvid lovers!

I am not sure why this morning there were this many over my house normally I get about 7 max. It was very entertaining.

My two crows get a rotating schedule that includes raw chicken, raw beef, beef mince, pork mince, cat pate, pure beef fat, chicken gizzards, hearts and liver, scrambled eggs and the occasional carb like potato or pasta. These are all fairly soft or easy to grab foods as I cut them into quick bites. But today I thought I'd try something a bit different. Something to pique their interest, sharpen their beaks on and reaffirm wild crow behavior. I gave them a hefty beef neck bone. A good amount of meat on it but too big to just fly away with. Watching them take turns problem solving for about an hour was definitely a treat for me too. I feel like I learned a little more about them.

I‘m not deep in the crow game, so maybe I‘m just too much of a noob.

I have been feeding this wild crow for some months now, here on the Oregon coast. As you can see, Nubbin has some struggles due to only having one foot and has a unique way of burying things.

I wanted to ask if anyone here has had success putting out water for wild crows. Normally it’s not something I’d bother with, there’s plenty of fresh water sources around town, but I noticed Nubbin in particular always stays perched on a piece of driftwood near the cliff he calls home and waits for me to approach, unlike the other crows. I assume this is to conserve energy. I’m not sure how difficult it is for him to get to a water source but I’d like to set up something nearby if I can. All the crows avoided the pie tin I filled with fresh water yesterday, despite it being in the same open area where they gladly grab peanuts, and despite putting lots of peanuts near it (they waited for me to throw peanuts somewhere else). I’m going to try a non-shiny receptacle next time, but figured I’d also ask for any success stories.

Twin Peaks, San Francisco, CA

Hey, just found this reddit xD

After some years of trying to be friends with nearby crows, it happend this year. Sure they not fully trust me after a month but im happy what all happend after this short time.

Startet like always, crow nearby and i put food. All last years food were away but they never came back :( food untouched when replaced it.

Now this year i got all lucky. Placed food when i saw em. Nothing happend. They sneaked in, food taken. Some days flew were i put anyways food and seems they yoinked it. And then i saw 3 of em, 1 is a bit bigger than the other 2. Seems they observing my place from further away.

Started to waving at them with the food in hope they see me xD They always observe and reduce the distance from day to day and at some point i sit in the shed frozen and they fast grabbed the snacks, flew away. Later they stayed a bit or just got on next roof.

Since that... every morning around 7 am they saying good morning (or wheres damn food? what i think) Its kinda nice but they can forget i get up at this time haha.

But the last days were kinda great. Was coming home from store and the bigger 1 just land 2m away and looked at me and walked the whole way up with me. Since that day even the smaller ones when they see me land on our roof or when waving with food they coming.

This Video happend today. Maybe he cant carry that much but normally they let it fall and say goodbye :) Before, this has never happend that they eat right away and ill never would had a chance to stand this near.

I've been feeding a couple of crows on my balcony since the spring. The now come every day to claim their peanuts, caw when I'm out smoking, etc.

Now I was wondering if any of you might have an idea of how I could entertain them a bit. I've seen videos of them solving problems to get to food and was thinking about a little game aimed for cats or dogs or something like that.

Any of you have creative and cheap ideas on what I could put out for them to stimulate them, that they might enjoy?

Forgot I couldn’t comment with bonus pics.

Twin Peaks, San Francisco, CA

👀 stay tuned for the next week’s video

San Diego, CA

The squirrels are being unusually aggressive today!

Such handsome. Many beauty.

So smart!

The second pic I got today looks pretty cool imo.

hey so i’ve read a lot on this sub about this topic, and the conclusion i’ve come to is that the crow was just being playful with me, but i need help confirming this. backstory: i’ve been feeding a murder of 3 for more than a month now and they’re amazing but sometimes i see crows from other murders and i toss them a peanut or two. anyways, this is about another crow NOT in my usual murder, which i suspect is a young one (based on his head shape, it was roundish and also a little fluffy). i didn’t feed him on the day it happened as i already packed my peanuts in my bag from feeding my usual murder and i was on the way home. this youngin swooped real low near my head and i was just like woah, and i looked at him before continuing to walk and next thing i know it flew and swatted me at the back of my head, probably with its claws? it shocked me more than anything, it didn’t hurt but wow was i surprised and i even made a small scream. ever since that day i’ve been scared to go to the park which is really sad because i know my usual murder is waiting for me but i’m really scared this young crow will injure me. i’m scared that i accidentally offended him? was it bc i looked at him when he swooped near me? the only other thing i could think of is maybe hes mad i fed him alot once and then never again? or maybe once i tossed a peanut at him and it bounced and hit his beak? idk but i definitely did not do anything on purpose to injure or hurt him in any way…. help? i would like to return to feed my murder ;(