Seattle Man Has Been Feeding A Crow Family For Years, Has His "Mind Blown"

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Seattle Man Has Been Feeding A Crow Family For Years, Has His “Mind Blown” After They Bring Him Presents

By Rokas L

Stuart Dahlquist, 56, has been a bird enthusiast for most of his life, but a family of crows has still found a way to surprise him. Recently, the Seattle man received a gift from the fellas he’s been feeding for a couple of years and if that wasn’t enough, they brought him another one the very next day.




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https://www.boredpanda.com/man-feeds-family-of-crows-receives-gifts-stuart-dahiquist

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. According to Raptor Specialists....Crows are the SMARTEST of the bunch.....

Crows are the SMARTEST birds on the planet. Be good to them, they will remember that.

Be mean, and they will communicate that to their community and they will wreck havoc on you.

[cab67]

8. parrots and crows are probably equally intelligent.

Their intelligence is expressed differently. And they're both capable of problem-solving.

[erronis]

10. Some wonderful tales are told by Berndt Heinrich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_Heinrich

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Raven-Investigations-Adventures-Wolf-Birds/dp/0061136050

I trust that many species have intelligence that far surpasses that of self-declared geniuses.

[leftieNanner]

2. Wonderful!

We all need these kinds of stories now and again. Thanks for sharing.

[Shrike47]

3. Crows can and do recognize individual humans. I wish I could recognize individual crows.

[James48]

4. They are pissed off!

They brought this to you so that you could see what mankind is doing to nature- tossing its aluminum garbage out to contaminate pretty tree branches. They want you to tell mankind to knock it off!

[DesertRat]

5. There was a story like this about a girl in Seattle

Who fed the crows in her garden and they brought her gifts in return. So cool!

She holds up a pearl coloured heart. It is her most-prized present. "It's showing me how much they love me."

There's a miniature silver ball, a black button, a blue paper clip, a yellow bead, a faded black piece of foam, a blue Lego piece, and the list goes on. Many of them are scuffed and dirty. It is an odd assortment of objects for a little girl to treasure, but to Gabi these things are more valuable than gold.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026

[calimary]

13. Remarkable!

At our old place, I left birdseed out in front every morning. Soon enough, I noticed I had customers! Birds would sit on the power lines along the street and wait, every morning. Sometimes I’d see 16 or 17 of them all in a row up there, waiting for me and my birdseed! There were black phoebes, house finches, mourning doves, and a blue jay or two.

My husband said that when he’d sit outside, reading, on the deck, he’d hear the distinctive black phoebe chirp and sure enough there’d be one on the chimney, sitting and waiting - and, I guess, alerting. He said he thought I was being paged. Just on a hunch, I went out front and sure enough, the place where I always dropped birdseed was empty! I was being called to resupply!

[DesertRat]

19. That's so cool!

[Beringia]

6. That is odd, how did they do that?

I had 2 pigeons make a nest on my windowsill and part of the nest was a large batch of keys on a keychain. I don't even know how they managed to pick it up.

[watoos]

7. Crows will hoard shiny objects.

[erronis]

9. So do some rich old primates...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. And there are bower birds. . . . nt

[maxsolomon]

11. Cool gifts, but don't feed wild animals.

Crows and raccoons in particular.

[catbyte]

12. So everybody with a bird feeder needs to stop?

[maxsolomon]

14. OK, be binary about it. Yes.

All birds are wild animals, so all bird feeders need to stop. NO EXCEPTIONS.



Crows and raccoons are not the same as hummingbirds. They're aggressive, intelligent, adaptable, abundant, and don't need our help.

[Kaleva]

18. There is no scientific reason why one should not feed crows.

It's a personal choice.

Hummingbirds are very aggressive and don't need our help, as their primary diet consists of insects, but it's quite okay to feed them if one wants to.

[maxsolomon]

20. It may be scientifically acceptable to habituate corvids to free food, but it's not considerate.

The heartwarming story of the little girl who got gifts from crows in Seattle? Her neighbors took them to court over it.

What about Raccoons? Is feeding them OK if they do cute things? I have a friend that feeds them dog food, and she has 20-30 every night at her back deck. Not cool.

[Kaleva]

21. I have a neighbor that feeds crows and no one complains about it.

Feeding raccoons is okay too if one is aware of the potential problems they can bring. As for your friend, as long as the raccoons aren't bothering the neighbors in any way or osing a danger to her in any way, there shouldn't be a problem.

I myself would not feed raccoons but I do feed birds year round, deer in the late fall and early winter and last winter, I fed a flock of 15 turkeys who have since left.

[wishstar]

15. A crow dropped a piece of pizza on my head in my yard and doubt it was a gift

but you never know. We can't use birdfeeders due to bears but occasionally throw out a crust of old bread for squirrels and birds who find it instantly but we do have several bird baths that are quite popular and a couple of times crows have left some french fries in their favorite bird bath where they often seem to eat greasy food. Don't know where the pizza and french fries came from.

[marieo1]

17. Boost our morale

Thank you for posting this lovely picture - we all need a boost to our morale!!

[RhodeIslandOne]

22. I saw a crow feasting on a giant animal in my backyard early this winter

I thought it was a baby possum, partially frozen after getting caught outside.

Unfortunately, it was a big rat. Needless to say, I'm a little nervous.

It's entirely possible the crow had swiped it from elsewhere (I live a half mile from a breakwater where rats congregate and eat fish guts the fisherman leave behind) and dropped it to it's death. The crow was obviously massive itself. I have seen them dive bomb the neighborhood cat to keep him from getting any ideas.