I started to feed and water my neighboring crows (thelemmy.club)

submitted 4 days ago by AshleyToAshes@lemmy.world to c/crows@lemmy.ml

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Every time I go to refil the water, clean the dishes and give food, I find a feather. 😁 I think that I'm getting presents from them.

Recently I made a grave mistake trying to help a chick which its parents misinterpreted and now I'm trying to fix the problem by pampering crows in my neighborhood so they can give a good word about me to the insulted parents.

I left the insulted ones fruits and walnuts and water, but I think they didn't see me, so I'll have to repeat a process because I really want to be in good terms with those birds. I hope they will forgive me. I was so stupid for trying to help. 🤦‍♀️

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[-] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

Crow children are so funny once you learn to identify them. Not even mouth color, just the way they don't know how to do anything 😭

[-] AshleyToAshes@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, this chick seemed so dumb, standing at the edge of the pavement while cars were passing by. That's why I intervened. 😅🤦‍♀️

[-] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

In high school people would get mad at me for slowing down for the little oafs, like wtf you want me to splat a bird that doesn't even know how to fly properly?

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 8 points 4 days ago

Since afaik crows both teach their flock who's good and who's bad and are social animals, I'd imagine good deeds would even reverberate indirectly to the offended ones.

Also if a crow's feather appears every now and then, I'd imagine it's hitting the target audience, at worse indirectly as said above. =)

[-] AshleyToAshes@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I hope so. My crows here in my hood attacked me the day after the incident, while I was giving them water. Nothing scary, they just yelled me a lot. They don't yell at me anymore, in fact, two days ago, they were following me and had more friendly sound, like they were greeting me. 😁 So I hope they told to the insulted parents that I'm ok. And I hope with all my heart little one is ok. For him and for me. If he got hurt, I'm fucked.

They are really fascinating animals. 😁❤️

[-] espentan@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I've been looking after my nieces two flat coat retrievers for a couple of weeks, and on every walk we need to pass by a crows nest, and oh boy, the parents are so pissed at me/us, getting up real close and personal, telling us to fuck right off. I'm just waiting for them to physically attack us. Maybe I can smooth things over by bringing them some treats, once the dogs are no longer here.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

Had a tame raven come by and hang out for a summer and can confirm that it's a good idea to have a bag of nuts on hand at all times in case you encounter them. Just put some nuts out on the ground where they can see you do it; throwing them doesn't always work well.

[-] AshleyToAshes@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah, they hate dogs. Try with peanuts. Internet says they love it. I'm waiting for my order of 3kg peanuts for crows only. 😂 Can't wait to treat them.

If I remember, I'll post about our situation, if parents forgave me because of my presents.

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