arjimlad Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31795681 I found these stories of people befriended by crows fascinating. I know they are very intelligent birds and obviously we do need to control their numbers for the sake of our songbirds, but all the same, respect to the crow ! I wondered if anyone here had any similar stories. Mine have generally been Caw.. Bang... Thud, which has a certain tinge of sadness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 I used to be the manager of a retail shop in a hospital. I came into the shop via a side door which has a large glass panel from top to bottom. One morning, around 7am, and before the shop opened, I could hear, what sounded like little stones being thrown at the glass panel. I looked towards it, and was amazed to see a large Crow, jumping up about 8 inches off the ground, and tapping the glass with its beak. As I opened the door, it flew onto a low roof, watching towards me. I opened a packet of nuts and raisins, and placed them on the floor, just outside the glass door. I closed the door, and a few minutes later, the Crow came down to feed. I did this on a number of occasions, and showed others what the Crow was doing. How it knew that tapping the glass would get me to provide it with some food, beats me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead-Eyed Duck Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 I used to be the manager of a retail shop in a hospital. I came into the shop via a side door which has a large glass panel from top to bottom. One morning, around 7am, and before the shop opened, I could hear, what sounded like little stones being thrown at the glass panel. I looked towards it, and was amazed to see a large Crow, jumping up about 8 inches off the ground, and tapping the glass with its beak. As I opened the door, it flew onto a low roof, watching towards me. I opened a packet of nuts and raisins, and placed them on the floor, just outside the glass door. I closed the door, and a few minutes later, the Crow came down to feed. I did this on a number of occasions, and showed others what the Crow was doing. How it knew that tapping the glass would get me to provide it with some food, beats me. I was called in to sort out a pair of crows a couple of years ago. One crow was continually 'attacking' a conservatory window, and making one helluva racket at 06.00 in the morning; it appeared to be attacking it's reflection in the glass.This apparently had been going on for a week. A pair of crows were nest building in a lone tree 100 yards away, and appeared to be the culprits. The householder kept chickens in the yard, and so I made a nest near to the hutch with a couple of eggs in plain sight. I came the following morning at 05.00 with my HW100 and lay under a cammo net under a hedge 25 yards away, and within an hour had both crows. I do like shooting crows, and those two were probably the easiest I have shot with an air rifle. I still chuckle about it when I have the odd dram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grrclark Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Crows are amazing birds and I do sometimes think it is a shame that we shoot something so intelligent, but then I remind myself of how they use that intelligence to prey upon livestock and I don't feel bad at all. It is wrong to anthropomorphise, but crows are wicked things, albeit really smart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike737 Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 I used to be the manager of a retail shop in a hospital. I came into the shop via a side door which has a large glass panel from top to bottom. One morning, around 7am, and before the shop opened, I could hear, what sounded like little stones being thrown at the glass panel. I looked towards it, and was amazed to see a large Crow, jumping up about 8 inches off the ground, and tapping the glass with its beak. As I opened the door, it flew onto a low roof, watching towards me. I opened a packet of nuts and raisins, and placed them on the floor, just outside the glass door. I closed the door, and a few minutes later, the Crow came down to feed. I did this on a number of occasions, and showed others what the Crow was doing. How it knew that tapping the glass would get me to provide it with some food, beats me. I bet you don't do that nowadays Steve... Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 I have the utmost respect for crows. I don't enjoy crow days one bit but when im asked i'll do my duty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 All corvids are pretty clever, when my dad was a kid he hand-reared an orphan jackdaw and taught it to sing ring-a-ring of roses. It didn't get to grips with the dance though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grrclark Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 All corvids are pretty clever, when my dad was a kid he hand-reared an orphan jackdaw and taught it to sing ring-a-ring of roses. It didn't get to grips with the dance though. My dad had a pet Jackdaw when he was a nipper too. A couple of years ago I learned from a mate, who was the boss of the estates department for the local authority, of a council house he had to visit where the tenant had fenced off about 6 feet of his living room with chicken wire and kept a pet crow in there. I believe it was a wild adult bird that he had somehow captured and thought he would keep it as a pet. He also told me about a woman in a block of flats who kept pot bellied pigs indoor, she actually laid turf over a layer of polythene in her spare bedroom and watered it. It was a short lived affair as the pig scraped through the turf and polythene and the downstairs neighbour had a very messy ceiling collapse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 I bet you don't do that nowadays Steve... Mike No. And as much as I admired the cleverness of that Crow, had I been allowed to take a shotgun to work, he would have tapped his last! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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