The Beauty of Crows

[Medusa]

Crows are very clever creatures who like people, remember faces, have family groups, friend groups and sometimes hang out on their own. If you look at a crow, they will look back at you. I mean really look at you. They're awesome.

This thread then is all about the beauty of crows.

 

[Medusa]

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[Medusa]

I've never heard that. It's nice.

 

[timoc]

I think they are telepathic too.
A few months ago one was sitting on my fence, it didn't make a sound, but I distinctly understood it to telepathically say, "OK, Timmo, where do you hide your toffees?"

 

[Aunt Bea]

There is a group or murder of crows on my morning walk.

It’s interesting to me how they work together, having lookouts to alert crows feeding on the ground of potential danger when someone is approaching.

 

[CaliS]

I Crows ~ beautiful & intelligent

 

[outlander]

I absolutely love crows. They are beautiful and fascinating. Ravens are also wonderful. Having owned a bunch, chickens are amazing too, though they get little credit.

I kinda of imagine if humans go extinct, birds would likely take over and evolve into the next civilization. After all, they are survivors of the dinosaur extinction

 

[RadishRose]

 

[RadishRose]

 

[RadishRose]

If there's water near, crows will often wash their food.
They know to place nuts in the street for passing traffic to crack the shells.
They understand water displacement.....

 

[Babs2u]

I confuse ravens with crows.

 

[Imogene]

This was Crow-Man. He was here from about 2013 until winter of 2024. He loved and watched over my Tennessee Walker with metabolic issues. When Joker passed, Crow-Man visited his grave for three days.

I had hoped I would be able to lay him to rest with Joker, but it wasn’t to be.

Two pair have appeared since his passing, but they keep their distance.

 

[Imogene]

I confuse ravens with crows.

Ravens are bigger and have shaggier looking feathers. Their caw is also very deep. I thought for sure my crow pictured above was a raven. I sent a picture of it to the ornithological Society in Tennessee and they said sorry, No that’s just a big crow.

He was a big guy. I fed him every day. He would sit clear at the top of a dead tree and watch me feed the horses, and I would rattle bowl with corn in it. He would watch me, scatter that corn in the same spot every day. Wait for me to leave then come and eat it I miss that old boy

 

[Antoli]

I used to feed crows chopped liver, leaving it on top of a large, flat fence post. Then one day I discovered a shiny piece of chromed metal with a red reflector on it placed on their feeding post. Apparently, it was a gift from the crows. I hope they have forgiven me for moving away.

 

[Lilac]

We have a murder of crows that hang around our woods, especially in fall & winter. Sometimes they will drop in & eat the corn we put out in the deer feeders.

A little over a week ago, we got a road kill & brought the deer home to clean. We left it in a pasture along the edge of the woods in front of the house for what ever critter wanted food. The early morning on the first day the crows were having breakfast. We seen them until it was cleaned up.

 

[Naturally]

When I hear crows cawing, I always pay attention. Something is about to happen or a change is coming.
The crow isn't declaring fate. It's saying something matters right now. Pay attention.

 

[Nathan]

We have a nesting pair of Ravens in one of our pine trees. Very smart, very personable creatures.

 

[Antoli]

We have a nesting pair of Ravens in one of our pine trees. Very smart, very personable creatures.

Would their names be Huginn and Muninn by any chance?

 

[Jeni]

we have huge crow night roosting place in a town about 6 miles south.
In evening they are thick it looks like "the birds" movie. hundreds of birds.... in the morning early before sunrise groups fly off to whatever area they live in the day. if you watch you can see they arrive at dusk and leave in morning.
it is really interesting to watch. the group works together.

 

[outlander]

Not many crows where I live, but a lot of ravens. We have 3 cats and a 145 lb dog, so they don't hang out on the property. The ravens actively chase off hawks and are always flying around the neighborhood all the time. My chickens could easily tell the difference between a hawk or a raven flying overhead.

 

[mrstime]

We really like crows, but our kitty Lily is afraid of them. We think at some point our little Lily was abandoned and crows harassed her. Because she likes watching birds out the window, but when she sees crows she ducks down so they can't see her.

 

[Medusa]

There is a group or murder of crows on my morning walk.

It’s interesting to me how they work together, having lookouts to alert crows feeding on the ground of potential danger when someone is approaching.

My husband just had an experience with that sort of behavior. He saw a lone crow in a tree, just hanging out like they do, and then a hawk swooped in, the crow gave a single "caw" and a bunch of them appeared out of nowhere, whereupon they all commenced to chase the hawk. Crows are so badass.

 

[Medusa]

I love this because it's so true!

 

[outlander]

Hawks avoid crows and ravens. If one is raising chickens, having several black australorps in the flock will deter hawks that confuse them with the mighty corvids