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It's OK to feed wild birds – here are some tips for doing it the right way

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Re: It's OK to feed wild birds – here are some tips for doing it the right way

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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.

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.

Probably territorial disputes. I bought a feeder and I'm hanging it right outside/below my balcony (so birds can eat without pooping on my balcony). I buy hulled sunflower seeds, 10kg, every month just for the feeder. My typical 'customers' are House Sparrows that I try to keep alive through the winter. The (three) crows on my block are cool with them, and let them live around here. When pigeons fly in though, or once we had some ducks resting and trying to feed on my feeder, OH BOY, the crows no-like-big-birds.

Sidenote: because of the weird position of my feeder, only one bird can eat at-a-time. House Sparrows being smart and loving do the following.. one goes to my feeder and shoves/throws down seeds, so he/she eats straight from the feeder, and a bunch of others eat the seeds falling on the sidewalk.

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