Black Crows
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Earthling2 has befriended what appears to be a widowed crow that has been hanging around our suburban house looking forlornly. We can recall the two of them (crows mate for life) frolicking in the neighborhood trees every year for some time and attending a large nest across the street.
We don't know what happened to its mate, but it still hangs around looking quite lonely. I can't tell what gender it is, and if we have to go by size then we no longer have the mate to compare.
But E2 has been setting out a small bowl of water in the garden along with some bread or leftovers from yesterdays meals and her new friend shows up every morning for breakfast, or possibly to gather food for offspring. We hardly ever see him/her eat any, but almost always flies off with it.
Being a widow herself she is sensitive that way.
According to the Wiki, crows are highly intelligent toolmakers and have been known to use bread as bait to lure minnows and small fish to come close. They also have quite a memory and a penchant for revenge if you cross them. And they remember faces.
E2s brother shooed one off his truck with a broom once, and for weeks afterwards found poop on his hood nearly every morning.
They have since made amends.
Anyway, the squirrels have been avoiding the garden and I haven't seen the two rabbits lately so it's turned into a symbiotic relationship of sorts.
I'm going to have to go make friends.
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Asking for a friend?
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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
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Good afternoon Earthling 1. Thanks for the OT. I can't speak
as to crows specifically, but a lot of birds that mate for life will go and acquire a replacement mate if their original one vanishes and does not return or if they watch it die. Befriending corvids is somewhat worthwhile, because they will help keep the rodent population down. Conversely. they will mob and harass any and all raptors, including those that prey on rodents, which is a big downside.
be well and have a good one
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Funny you mention the rodent thing
We have found two dead ones in the yard recently. One with no head.
Could be our new friend?
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
@earthling1 I made friends with a
Non-Black Crow
Hooded Crow photo taken in Rome, Italy
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be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --