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I started to feed and water my neighboring crows (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/crows@lemmy.ml
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Every time I go to refil the water, clean the dishes and give food, I find a feather. ๐Ÿ˜ I think that I'm getting presents from them.

Recently I made a grave mistake trying to help a chick which its parents misinterpreted and now I'm trying to fix the problem by pampering crows in my neighborhood so they can give a good word about me to the insulted parents.

I left the insulted ones fruits and walnuts and water, but I think they didn't see me, so I'll have to repeat a process because I really want to be in good terms with those birds. I hope they will forgive me. I was so stupid for trying to help. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ

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[โ€“] 9 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

Since afaik crows both teach their flock who's good and who's bad and are social animals, I'd imagine good deeds would even reverberate indirectly to the offended ones.

Also if a crow's feather appears every now and then, I'd imagine it's hitting the target audience, at worse indirectly as said above. =)

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  • [โ€“] [S] 6 points 3 months ago

    I hope so. My crows here in my hood attacked me the day after the incident, while I was giving them water. Nothing scary, they just yelled me a lot. They don't yell at me anymore, in fact, two days ago, they were following me and had more friendly sound, like they were greeting me. ๐Ÿ˜ So I hope they told to the insulted parents that I'm ok. And I hope with all my heart little one is ok. For him and for me. If he got hurt, I'm fucked.

    They are really fascinating animals. ๐Ÿ˜โค๏ธ

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    • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I've been looking after my nieces two flat coat retrievers for a couple of weeks, and on every walk we need to pass by a crows nest, and oh boy, the parents are so pissed at me/us, getting up real close and personal, telling us to fuck right off. I'm just waiting for them to physically attack us. Maybe I can smooth things over by bringing them some treats, once the dogs are no longer here.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 months ago

    Had a tame raven come by and hang out for a summer and can confirm that it's a good idea to have a bag of nuts on hand at all times in case you encounter them. Just put some nuts out on the ground where they can see you do it; throwing them doesn't always work well.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, they hate dogs. Try with peanuts. Internet says they love it. I'm waiting for my order of 3kg peanuts for crows only. ๐Ÿ˜‚ Can't wait to treat them.

    If I remember, I'll post about our situation, if parents forgave me because of my presents.

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