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Crows

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Bring stories and images of your encounters with crows, ravens, and other corvids. Link articles and anecdotes. Note here your literary references. Art welcome.

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this started happening a few years back i remember looking outside of my window and i saw a crow circling my house. at the time my grandpa was very sick and eventually died. but he was still alive then. anyway ever since that day no matter where i go or what time it is if i am outside i see crows flying around me literally following me. usually its a single crow. sometimes a pair. today it was several they just sit there in my line of sight or follow me. as far as i can tell nothing bad ever happens after i see them. they’re just there......

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[–] jared@mander.xyz 12 points 6 days ago

Start feeding them and grow your crow army!

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Feed them at a regular point in the day and in the same area. Wear the same distinctive and non-threatening thing each time (they have lupine intelligence, so it doesn't have to be a whole outfit matched each day). Talk to them in a conversational tone, with mild upnotes and soothing meter when they exhibit behavior you appreciate. Eventually, sit or rest your center of gravity lower, and be calm. Eventually, they'll congregate near your house and your whole place'll be cemented in corvid shit. Win! 😜

(source: my dad befriended a crow in his teens and has all sorts of stories from those years, but my grandparents weren't so happy about the faithful attention of the massive flock after he left for college, ha!)

[–] scott@lemmy.org 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 5 points 6 days ago

sounds like something a crow would say

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago

idk. Maybe you did one of them a kindness once, even if you didn’t realize it or don’t remember it. Or maybe you’re shiny.