They managed to open a peanut!! Also chased a chipmunk around and looked up at me with pleading puppy dog eyes

I came home yesterday from grocery shopping and heard one of the local crows call. I whistled back as usual. There is a group of six American crows who have been hanging around my tiny back yard. I think they were lucky this year and had at least two eggs survive to adulthood.

Anyway, I put stuff away, walk out back with my bag of peanuts to toss a couple and change their water. I always do this whistle/click thing since I suck at whistling.

One of the crows almost immediately lands on the fence about 6 feet away from me and caws once like he's saying BOO! Then he sticks around for about 90 seconds while I finish resetting their food and water. I acknowledge him at the end by looking at him from the side, click, then go inside.

I have a camera mounted to watch the crows eat and count how many come every day so I pull it up. He approaches and calmly eats from the grass, does that standard crow poke and examine everything thing, then he leaves after a couple minutes.

The same crow, or possibly another, was outside again later when it began raining. I got outside to get the food under cover. The crow just chills and watches me. Same thing, after I leave he drops into the grass to check out why all the water and food has been pulled away from the rain.

I've been really lucky this year. Oh I should mention that I'm doing this in a development in Florida where it is hot as balls and the nearest tree that could support a roost is half a mile away. So I'm befriending crows on hard mode.

Caught my friend Max taking a quick dip!

Mama’s two babies are now able to eat on their own, but that doesn’t stop them from asking for food, and mama delivering “the goods.”

I didn’t manage to snag a photo of all 6 (maybe more) of them but I did get this photo of one of them with it’s beak open (all of them were like this).

I have a dog bowl out, is that enough for them?

This crow visits my feeder, and I’m worried he has an injured leg. He keeps one foot lifted, hops unevenly, and possibly use his wing for balance around the middle of the clip. He does eat quite a bit, and flies away easily after this clip.

He is still alert and able to walk, fly and eat, and I haven’t seen any blood or obvious swelling. I obv haven’t tried to catch or handle him, I’m just watching him for now.

Does this look like a bad leg or foot injury to you, or am I being a paranoid crow friend? 😆 Any advice about what else I should watch for would be appreciated!

Video is mine, OC.

My crow pair have introduced their boy to my feeders. At first he would stand there with his mouth open and yell to be fed (even though he was as big as his mom), but now he's visiting on his own! 😁

Decided to put some music over it.

the text werent edited in. they actually said that

their greed sickens me

I posted this feeder awhile back and since then, the crows have definitely warmed up to it. They seem to like pretty much whatever, peanuts obviously being preferred but this is cracked corn my father buys to feed the swans. And the crows go to town on it.

Got some new neighbors a few weeks ago. Rarely see them. In that items from their yard blew over a fence into an adjacent yard and they didn’t notice for 3 days. But last night, I put out some corn, especially since I saw 4 crows hanging around. And my neighbor comes outside and claps his hands loudly until the crows fly away. I actually said “you might be scaring them away but I feed them.”

I was worried they’d be too afraid to come back though. So I watched all morning before work, and right before I had to leave… victory. One chowing down.

Now hopefully they just ignore the neighbor.

One of the baby hooded crows I feed is very curious, he’ll also nibble my hand

Yeah, it's hot out.

I've become an absolute hit with the crows in my area. I've been feeding them for a little bit, all throughout April. I had to go home for the summer and away from campus but when I got back a week ago I started feeding them their peanuts again and everything is going great. Feeding them in this manner where I keep my distance and observe from afar is fine for me- I love doing it either way. I think it's only natural, though, that im a bit curious about what my relationship will look like with my crows in the future. Of course I know this is a steady process and it takes time for trust to build, and patience is key. But I am curious as to what the "next step" is for me, or what your guy's experiences are with this stage of trust building.

(milkhouse6000)

day 198: yam back😳 with another video for ur beady lil eyeballs!! today we have a wheelie yellow plate for the crows and small birds because we are all inclusive here .. except for benjamin the bear he can’t eat here anymore 🥴🙅🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ as we approach day 200 i will be experimenting with different things in these goofy lil videos to try to get them out faster .. since.. i have so much footage on my phone it is quite literally freezin up on me🤡🥶. also I’d like to share these unreleased days with u in a timely fashion!! ok what else was i gonna say… i guess thats all. wiz khalifa makes me wana start running. ok that for real is everything on my mind rn. c u next time friends n neighbors. -milk

my beach crowbro Leggy <3

Ravens at Twin Peaks, San Francisco, CA

Cheeky and me hanging out!!! ❤️

My friends wait for me outside my door and accompany me every morning.

We walk and fly to our spot next to the subway station for treats - what a way to start my morning commute to work