This is so fascinating to me so I thought I’d share. I started feeding and interacting with the crows that flew around my old condo. They became very comfortable with me, and would bring me gifts and sit with me (see first photo). I had to move but not too far, so the same crows were around, but I’d moved up to a 16th floor condo, so they didn’t come up this high as often or fly around the new building as much. I can actually see my old place and saw them sitting out there waiting for me and it was so heartbreaking, so I tried everything I could to get their attention. After a couple months, I started playing videos of them cawing on a loud speaker when I saw them below. One finally came up to check it out and recognized me! It was so cool to see they hadn’t forgotten me and within a couple days I had 10+ of them again all hanging out on my new balcony and they come every day. They’ll sit right next to me and look at me and it’s like they missed me. It brings me so much joy to have them back :)

I love to sit on my balcony and listen to music while watching the crows fly east at sunset. I’ve been leaving them treats for a while now but our friendship has been indirectly acknowledged. But today one of them showed they do know my interests and dropped an airpod (singular) and charging case on my balcony. So thoughtful! Also if you lost an airpod recently… talk to the crow

Back in about 2012-13 my dad befriended a crow

My sister is in hospital right now (York, PA), giving birth to a baby girl. She looked out the window and this sweet visitor is watching over her! Not sure if raven or crow from the pic (thinking crow?).. She finds it unnerving, but I’m absolutely delighted! 😂😍

A couple days ago I posted a story about my crows asking for help dealing with a menacing cat. I handled the situation with poise and definitely did not rip the seat of my pants on a chainlink fence.

You can read the original post here, https://www.reddit.com/r/crowbro/s/9DtaimSuKc.

Everywhere I go lately crows show up and say hi.

Driving my car? They swoop down in front of my windshield. They fly by my window.

Walking my dogs? They follow us and hang out on nearby perches when we stop.

Drove 20 minutes to my parent's house? A murder of 20 was waiting for me in the trees and it really did sound like they were talking about me. Within a couple minutes there were 50 😂.

My main bro? Says hi to me every chance he gets. He's the one who alerted me to the cat in the first place. I've never named him because it feels weird to name a wild thing, he probably already has a name! But maybe I should call him something. Open to suggestions. He makes this crazy "whah whah" sound I've never heard another crow make.

It's pretty fun being famous with my city crows. I bop around town a lot, so I'm making lots of new crow friends. It's very cool how they can tell each other about someone. I feel like the local crow hero and I'm down for it. Does your murder need protecting? Be there in a min.

Was driving home from lunch and saw this guy hopping down a busy road, not able to get over a short barricade to get off the asphalt. Turned around and looped back and he was still there, laying on the asphalt.

Took a bit of wrangling, but picked him up and brought him to my house to put him in a crate to take him to a rehab tonight.

He doesnt seem to be able to fly, but hops well and was not hesitant to caw directly in my face.

Hes in a crate with a blanket, is there anything else i should do before i get him to the rehab?

Sorry for the shit picture, didnt have time to clean my camera

Edit:

Thank you everybody for your comments. Turns out this guy is definitely a raven. I brought him (her?) to a local wildlife rescue, and turns out the girl at the front desk knows the adult pair that live in the area i found this one. It is a fledgling. But it was on a highway overpass and was going to get hit by a car if i didnt intervene.

They are keeping him overnight for observation because he is limping slightly, then they sre going to bring him home, because they actually already know where the parents nest

Saw this on another sub and thought you'd enjoy this 😍

I'm sure that everyone here has seen a crow or raven gleam blue for a second or two, and I've been trying to photograph it for years. But since my Nikon isn't good at low light, I've always been unsuccessful... until yesterday!

In Yosemite National Park, where the birds have no fear of humans.

I helped a little by giving him unshelled peanuts broken in half. Shelled ones are for storing for later and the kids were very hungry! Every person that came near got dive bombed and I was privileged to come really close. But not to close! Got a warning snap of the wings on the back of my head! Still really glad that he brought his kids this close!

I love crows and I feed them and I sing to them, sometimes one of them follows me to Tim Hortons to have a bite of whatever I order. This time though I didn’t order any food, just coffee, and this fella wasn’t too pleased with me. I call him Rufus.

Some people are so clever.

We took it down but now I am worried we affected the raven’s psyche lol. Can I leave something out for the raven??

This greedy mf certainly impressed his gang with that courage.

I was beginning to think I would never get a crow gift, but today I got one in the most unlikely of places.

Been dropping my son off regularly every Saturday morning for karate and after seeing there were several crows active in the trees near the dojo, I started going out to feed them peanuts. They didn’t really seem to notice or care, and I never saw them eat any.

I did this 3 Saturdays in a row, and today I wasn’t even thinking about feeding them before I got here. However, less than a minute after we parked, I heard a bird land on the roof of my truck. They were being very noisy and tapping something on the roof of my truck. I let them do their thing until it sounded like whatever was up there might be pecking a hole in my roof. I put my phone up there and saw it was a crow and immediately on seeing them, they let the little plastic cylinder roll off the roof of my truck and it fell on the ground.

It took me a moment to realize it was a gift! They flew off and observed from a distance as I got out, graciously accepted the gift and then placed some peanuts for them.

I’m super happy, and all I can say is persistence and feeding at a specific time and specific place made the difference. Curious to see what happens next week!

I have this little crow statue on the corner of my pigeon loft and was wondering why I kept finding it on the ground... now I know why! Do you think he knows its a mini version of himself?

Also, that sound is my cat doing her bird chatter at him lol

I leave some crackers and peanuts and a bowl of water for the crows but I ran out and have been giving them end pieces of bread instead. I guess they are trying to send me a message

Fast forward to me scaling a fence to wrangle a feisty little cat that was menacing my crows.

I feed my crows on my apartment patio, which is about 10 feet off the ground and overlooks an enclosed gravel parking lot for a nearby business. My crows can perch on my fence and see me through my window. This morning at 5:30 am they started absolutely screeching at me through the window, which they have never done before. I just got back from a camping trip so I thought they were mad I had been gone.

I went out there to be like, "it is too early to be yelling for snacks!!" Everyone was still screeching and I'm mad cause it's cold and I'm half asleep, so I go to toss the kibble into the parking lot instead of putting it on the railing so they'll move away from my apartment. That's when I see the cat.

Like duh, of course they were mad about something. Well the cat didn't look very old and was stuck in the parking area (it's fully fenced in and locked) and obviously a danger to birds. So I got dressed and went to get it.

Man, what an adventure. It took me 30 minutes to catch this damn cat. Not because it was scared of me but because it was having way too much fun terrorizing the birds and making me chase it. Plus I had to climb the fence to get it and then climb back over with the cat (I wrapped it tightly in my hoodie). At least there weren't a lot of people out to witness me pspspspspspspspsing and swearing for 30 min in the early hours.

My crows followed us around the whole time and kept showing me where the cat was when it would run away so I could go catch it lol. At one point the cat was rolling around on a roof shed and all these birds were perched in the tree above it screaming, and I swear this cat was eating it up.

Anyways, I finally managed to get the sneak wrapped in my hoodie and it's now resting safely in my puppies crate until I can find the owner etc. (already working on that part). I have two big dogs and a 560 square foot apartment so kitty is not staying here. Though my older dog is OBSESSED with this cat. She is just laying next to the crate staring at it.

I hope my crows are grateful because waking up at 5:30 am, climbing into a locked fenced area, and wrangling a sneaky juvenile cat in order to protect my crows was not on my list of things I wanted to do this morning.

UPDATE: Kitty is back with owner, an older woman in the neighborhood who told me that kitty, "is an indoor/outdoor cat and she has a lot of freedom." I let her know that I apprehended her because "the birds I regularly feed were very upset/going after the cat" and reminded her that outdoor cats are a danger to birds. Probably won't change anything, but at least I told her.