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From finches to crows, they all seem to enjoy the running water in our ad hoc birdie bidet. Once or twice a year we get a reenactment of “The Birds” when 10+ rather large crows descend for a spa day.
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I tried that once. I fed a bunch of crows some walnuts while sitting by a river, and it was fine. The next day I came back, I fed crows at the same spot, and soon a murder of other crows came and attacked the crows I just fed. Not even just lightly nabbing them, but hacking down on them continuously until I broke up the fight. Didn't try feeding any since then.
You're supposed to use McDonalds fries, and some light rock-throwing toward the opposing faction. Traditionally this is how murder-crows have been trained since at least 2013. Total process is a few weeks. Source: https://imgur.com/f50IZJS
The crow war is a good story, if only a bit suspect.
None of this applies to crows. They're very happy to eat our rotting corpses and day old vomit. So feeding them can be an adventure if you try hard enough.
Crows are smarter. I saw a crow chowing down with its buddies after it ninja'ed inside a mechanic's shop to steal their sunflower seeds from atop their toolbox. That it both identified a package containing food it liked and knew when humans were watching, formulated a plan, and executed it successfully demonstrated significant intelligence.
Reportedly, one can befriend crows as well as crows supposedly hold grudges.
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I tried that once. I fed a bunch of crows some walnuts while sitting by a river, and it was fine. The next day I came back, I fed crows at the same spot, and soon a murder of other crows came and attacked the crows I just fed. Not even just lightly nabbing them, but hacking down on them continuously until I broke up the fight. Didn't try feeding any since then.
Whomever came up with that nonsense about cockroaches inheriting the smoking remnants of the earth we leave behind have no idea. "If its a rook its a crow ..." Crow are mostly singletons, rooks are the social largish, black corvid. By social, I mean bird form of Peaky Blinders. In the park opposite my house there are many large, mature trees. Several of them are home to rival gangs of rooks. There are also many magpi…
just plant native plants that have seed heads and don't dead head them once they're done flowering. your neighbor will think your garden is ugly, but they won't have many birds in their garden.
You can do that, and you’ll certainly have seed available for - three months of the year
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I tried that once. I fed a bunch of crows some walnuts while sitting by a river, and it was fine. The next day I came back, I fed crows at the same spot, and soon a murder of other crows came and attacked the crows I just fed. Not even just lightly nabbing them, but hacking down on them continuously until I broke up the fight. Didn't try feeding any since then.
You're supposed to use McDonalds fries, and some light rock-throwing toward the opposing faction. Traditionally this is how murder-crows have been trained since at least 2013. Total process is a few weeks. Source: https://imgur.com/f50IZJS
Age of Aquarius, or barbarians at the gate?
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