Feeding wild crows

In this blog I want to share the videos and photos I took while feeding wild crows and explain how it works. Before feeding wild crows make sure to educate yourself and to check the laws in your country because feeding wild animals can be illegal in some places. Feel free to send questions or suggestions :)

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Just officially announcing that i will not continue this blog as some might have suspected. Im working full time in rescue now for fancy mice AND wildlife (mostly bats currently) so i just have zero time :’) But this blog will stay up of course because i love looking through the videos myself and revisiting these nice memories.

Thanks to all of you, and bye bye!

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I’m still alive! Only very inactive on tumblr, what a shocking surprise. Sorry for that, life just happens. The crows and I still hang out and i think by now we have the third generation. Junior started bringing his or her own kids who learned to eat from the scary hand! Also apparently they told some other crows because now i also have regular crow visitors on my balcony who are incredibly tame without me every interacting with them before.

So yea, it’s still going, i’m prolly just not going to post much here. Thanks to all the great comments and messages, i hope you’re all safe and happy and had a wonderful year!

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I’m sorry momma crow that my gloves are so scary but it’s very cold ;__; (do you see the little Robin in the background? So cute!)

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It’s not too exciting but i love this photos of momma crow and me :’) It looks so peaceful

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Mom crow dropped a snack and junior is an opportunist

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They might look the same but the body language immediatly shows who’s Baby and who’s Mom :D Mom could just not be more relaxed (or more full of nuts)

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In case you wonder why I sometimes tag these CROW videos as “raven” it’s really just because a lot of people don’t know the difference so I feel like i might reach more with these tags. If you’re unsure about how to tell them apart: Ravens are WAY larger and have very shaggy neck feathers that can almost look like a beard. Ravens will also be way more rare in a city environment than crows and have tail feathers that look more pointy during flight. There’s more differences but I find those the easiest to spot from far away c: In case you’re still confused:

(cartoon from the 1940s http://pre-prowhiskeymen.blogspot.com/2016/01/ohios-ravens-vs-kentuckys-crow-and.html )

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“Baby” again. This little cutie has such a great body language! He was too scared to get the nuts so out of frustration he started making the same sounds and movements he would make towards his mom when he wanted to be fed as a little bird. They grow up so fast slow sometimes :P

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In my private files this video is just named “Baby is clumsy and gets embarassed”

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What do you do when you’re Baby (the bravest of boys) and wanna eat but your mom is blocking the way? You pull her feathers of course! Don’t worry about the sounds, it might sound scary but this was a very harmless “argument” and Baby is just extremely vocal :P He’s really cheeky tho!

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Happy holidays to everyone!! May the crows bring you many nuts this year. Or the other way around, bring your local crows some nuts! Or bring them 500*

I have a few cute videos queued up for the next days so get some hot chocolate or tea, cuddle up in a blanket and watch some crows c:

*this paragraph was co-written by mom crow, the human running this blog is not responsible for possible misinformation regarding the amounts of nuts a corvid should eat

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Today I brought my good camera, the big one with the amazing zoom. Only managed to take these two pictures of very sceptical mom crow tho, she really didn’t like the camera :’D We will need to train that a bit!

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regarding tumblr’s new guidelines

Obviously my blog is safe-for-work :) But i already had problems in the past with videos getting flagged because of my obscene naked forearm! *gasp* I’m worried with this new bot it might happen again. If you notice any of my videos disappearing or being marked as nsfw please contact me so i can do something about it!

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Nothing new for charcoalfriends-veterans but i didn’t update this blog for so long i felt like a comfy little crow snacking video would be nice :)

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After not seeing me for days momma crow happily runs towards me!... only to be startled by my scary scary new gloves. They are VERY suspicious but she fights her fear ;)

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I invite you to look at momma crow’s beautiful winter coat in these trying times. She is a super model birb!

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me “at work”