This guy followed me around today. He was waiting like this when I exited the building.

    • Mechanismatic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I work at a college campus. Several crows will follow me when I’m walking around since they know I’m a source of snacks. This one was following me from building to building while I was putting up flyers.

      • bonjour@mander.xyz
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        3 days ago

        Ha that is awesome. What kind of snacks do you have for them?

        I thought all crows like peanuts, but the zero scare crow was only playing around with the one i gave it. I cracked one open and it pecked at the nut but did not eat. Wanted to be fed though but peanuts was all I had. Maybe too young.

        • Mechanismatic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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          2 days ago

          I carry cat treats with me since you can carry so many in a small pouch in a pocket. They supposedly like unsalted peanuts in the shell too, but you can’t carry as many on a walk. They still follow me when I run out of treats, so I make sure I carry a lot. They’ve also come up on my porch and eaten wet meaty cat food.

          • bonjour@mander.xyz
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            2 days ago

            Haha, sounds real good. How many are they who follow you around, do they follow all together or do they have their sections? And can you tell (some of) them apart?

            I tried to attract some crows to my balcony, but they seem real shy. I know they pick up peanuts at some other place in the yard. The daily peanut I lay out was only once collected by a crow (that I saw), then the jay took over.

            • Mechanismatic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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              2 days ago

              They are territorial, so you can sometimes recognize them based on location and number when there’s nothing else distinguishable about them. There used to be two of them that would claim my front yard as their territory and they’d claim first access to any food that was put out and drive off competitors. They increased in number though and I could tell they had some kids because they did the whole squawking fledgling act where they scream to be fed constantly. So now there are more members of the family that dominate the area.

              Different sets will follow me around in different parts of the neighborhood, again reflecting the territorial aspect. There’s one couple a few blocks from my house that is highly distinguishable because one of the birds has a wonky wing. My neighbor named that was Twitch and its mate is Shogun.

              Here’s a post featuring them and one of their fledglings: https://lemmy.ml/post/17566746

              There’s a crow at my work who hides his treats in a particular patch of grass and so I call him Stash. I’ve seen him drive off other crows who get near his stashes.

              • bonjour@mander.xyz
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                2 days ago

                Thanks, that makes sense I guess. Those are some really cool names for the crows! Stash. I watch the crows in my yard stash stuff too, I thought they might be the ones who stashed peanuts in my flower pots, but now i suspect it’s the jays.