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I want to befriend the crows in my neighborhood.
http://www.thebittersweetlife.net/podcast/episode-51-crows/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31604026
(originally posted by @lordsmish on 2019-01-18 14:27:46)
thangmd
I feel warm inside of happy
smax410
This is how you become a Druid apparently....
Skittleballs
It's a feat to get upvotes on a post with a pun a Hundred times worse than Edward Maccharoni Fork.
Archer8888
I stopped looking at titles a long time ago. In my experience most people don’t usually give good title. ?
dwideshruud
A group of crows is called a Murder.
terribledeathwhinny
A group of murders is called a wild Saturday night.
WomensLover
Don't piss off any one of them. If you make one crow angry, you deal with the whole crow tribe
WomensLover
I'm not making this up, I speak from my own experience. I learned my lesson. I've seen things.....
ErikTheRedder
Crows can recognize faces and hold grudges. They’re like the Chinese government.
Sigge1981
Carol, Queen of Crows!
SomeCrazyNerd
Magneto's daughter in X-Men Apocalypse
Rakkndon
Is this how you become a Druid?
cakeycakes
I would love to befriend crows but I have bunnies in my yard and I've seen what they can do to baby bunnies....
cakeycakes
So I resign to respecting them from afar.
ScarecrowSticks
Feel like if the internet outlasts us, this and the two other bots will continue their routine
GadenKerensky
Only if they work off each other.
ScarecrowSticks
[Distant future] Well, according to imgur, this planet has died off about 1,281,434 pixels ago
sgnight13
The crows made a religion
CommentsThisTimeLastYear
That pun in the title...
CommentsThisTimeLastYear
(originally by @EricFromAccounts on 2019-01-18 14:37:29)
TheSwedishMoose
lncorrectGrammerNazi
Houstonruss
I feel like we missed a step. kinda like when you turn a knob too far, but its just a bad knob
mikeatike
One of the birds is a photographer?
AstynaxPie
That's how I read it too! Then I Imagined it that way for the remainder of the paragraph
JHawke
Well, you were informed it got better.
theTwiz
crowtographer*
CaptainLeadfoot
I need to teach some crows about 10mm sockets
RussianBlueJay
2. Profit
krazeeman450
Maybe they know and hoard them as currency. I bet both of mine are there.
ImaginaryName
We should really start employing crows. I feel like we could give certain jobs and they would be really good at them. Just pay them in nuts!
Nekocatz13
I need a crow family
Anonymouz127
Me too, who wouldn't want to be part of a murder!
WhereArtThouMyTesticles
I can be your crow. Just toss pizza at me and I will save up to buy a crow outfit and watch you through your windows at night.
TakuanSoho
Jokes on you, I already do that without you having to toss pizza at me
weldr67
I have one! They are awesome
StellaArtois
Do you get gifts?
weldr67
No. We’ve only known each other for one year. But they visit every day and for me, that is a gift.
weldr67
I made a post about them a while ago :)
DeadandCool
She’s a Disney princess
Wookiebutter
I am trying to teach the ravens to say fuck
010100110110101101111001010011100110010101110100
Just wait till you throw away something cursed and they keep bringing it back and you get scared AF
MrBoopleSnootFluffkins
Why was the little girl being interviewed? Was she up for a job at Turnball's or something?
BeverleyMacker
Birds are wicked smaht. Really. Used to have several as pets. Smartest pets I ever had.
DignamWhenAskedaQuestion
Seizurebleak
That's Russell Crow, Cameron Crow, Crow Diddley, Hume Crow-nyn, Gregory Peck.
halfmexicanhalfamazing
I really want a Crow or Raven as a familiar
erikagainagain1
We share this world, humans don't own it
lovehandlesmessiah
McDonald’s fries work well, too:
jsnforce
LumpkinPathos
why isn't the lens cap in the collection?
LigJoeMama
Because its a fake story.
CheeseB0t
1/3
bigsteve31sk8
It's back on the camera sheesh.
ThomasThundersword
have we ever found out how true this is? i want to believe so bad but it’s so crazy.
Sasuuni
Crows are super smart but there is no evidence that they think they are showing gratitude etc. Probably crossed wire and they have come 1/
Sasuuni
to believe that the food is a reward for the shiny shit they bring rather than that they'll get it anyway. We like to assign human 2/
Sasuuni
thought patterns and emotions to animals and Tumblr, Facebook and Imgur users just take that shit and run with it. Most times it's false 3/3
GodDammitKevin
I want to befriend the crows in my neighborhood.
Taxicat
Mealworms. Some kinds of nuts, though you might have crush them first. Corn, peas, the occasional bit of bread is okay but 1/
Taxicat
not too much. Same with French fries; they love them, but they’re not very good for them. During winter, give them food that is 2/
Taxicat
higher in fat and protein. They’ll need it to keep warm and also to prepare for nesting season. 3/
youknowthatiknow
They like cat food. So do magpies
RebelSkull
I love Corvids. They’re the coolest
diregamer
LisaChwan
My crazy cat lady neighbor did that, and it has been so fucking noisy around her from all the loud cawing. Please reconsider..
TrowelAndError
I befriended mine in hopes they’d run off the squirrels. They used to post a sentry on top of my roof. When I got out of the car, it 1)
TrowelAndError
2) would fly a lap around the house and then caw to the others. I used to leave them peanuts (in shell) and dry cat food.
Leithoa
It's literally one of my life goals. Suet & cracked corn are good crow food i hear.
aface62
And ask them to keep it down.
MorrighanWolf
Do it. They are good birds who help take care of carrion.
DeckMyHalls
I too choose this guys dead wife
TitledEel
Crows and corvids in general are pretty cool
DignamWhenAskedaQuestion
iConfirmAnythingAndEverything
Talk to them calmly, if you see one that you think is the same one regularly, say hello, compliment them, they might start replying
LullabyJones
Hey you. Nice feathers.
iConfirmAnythingAndEverything
In front of my old building on a power box my ex and I had a crow who would sit on it almost everyday. My ex would say hello and call 1
iConfirmAnythingAndEverything
It a pretty bird ... After a few times it would see us and perk up with its feathers acknowledging us
Mydogismybestman
It doesn't take much to befriend them, but it does take some work to really develop a relationship with your local crows.
Foxsayy
What are the pros and cons of doing so
kevlarburrito
Pro and con: they’re extremely territorial birds
kevlarburrito
Or rather...they can be
katwilmb
They're very loud but it's fun. Their murder (group/family) can grow pretty large over time.
xj4low
Tech at a body shop I worked at always threw stuff and yelled at the crows. They pooped on him and dropped nuts on him all day.
EekumBokumEekumBokum
Well he definitely developed a relationship with them
Dreadhawk
So the crows teabagged him?
xj4low
I liked to feed them left over popcorn after the shop closed and never had any problems with them.
TheHaloFollower
Well that IS technically a relationship!
gotkrypto
Auto tech here, both my lifts are outside and I sometimes "caw caw" back at the crows and they keep doing it back...but no shinies yet. ha
gotkrypto
One day one will show up with a 10mm socket and I will be so proud.
kevlarburrito
Plot twist, it’s your socket and they nabbed it years prior
Iankill
Just throw food outside also keep in mind while crows will eat bread their preference is meat or bones
Colopty
Crows are basically flying dogs, got it.
MichaelBuckyBradyMyers
I just laughed at this for 3 straight minutes
SnarkySophia
I left meat out for a friendly Crow that would come to my balcony about once a week. Crow wouldn't touch it. :-(
Taxicat
Try cat food or dried mealworms.
SnarkySophia
Thanks, I'll try that when it comes back this spring.
Taxicat
They’re omnivorous, and they enjoy variety. They’re not generally carrion eaters though, which is probably why they avoided the meat. 1/
katwilmb
Leftovers are good and I've thrown out dead rat bodies I've caught in traps because every winter they come into my crawl space.
TigerofDoom
The most healthy and tasty option for them are flour worms. You csn buy them cheaply at terrarium sections. They're also very easy to breed.
tegfdd77
How do you know they are tasty. Just wonderin’.
TigerofDoom
If you present them with different options they mostly prefer the worms.
kevlarburrito
He’s a crow...duh
Ginocide
I made a temporary friend of a crow at my local Burger King. Every time he would see me walking back to my car he'd fly down and land on >
Ginocide
a nearby light and caw. I'd toss a small french fry or two towards it and it would wait until I got into my car and closed the door before>
Ginocide
swooping down to eat them. It was a nice bird. Crows, ravens, and corvids are cool.
Leithoa
Asshole pets though, leave them outside.
Taxicat
I had a couple crow friends like that at the Park and Ride on my way to work. Haven’t seen them the last few months, but I’m thinking 1/
Taxicat
it’s just too dark and cold in the mornings when I get there. They’re probably not even awake yet. 2/