Yeah, they’re scavengers and carrion eaters. I saw one snacking on a pile of dog barf yesterday. Always had an affinity for corvids; ravens and magpies are common in Alaska, where I grew up.
We feed the deer and turkeys shelled corn. Whatever they do not eat, the crows clean up.
Nice to know… I was simply curious, because your statements were completely out of context and inappropriate for what had been posted.
Must have been one heck of an email.
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Quasimodem, I’m glad to see you posting again, but this post is entirely out of line for this forum. I don’t see anything in previous posts that might have prompted this, and even if it was provoked by an email it should have been responded to privately.
Please consider carefully what you post here.
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Forgot the rules, I apologize.
Q
Apology accepted. Just be careful in the future.
Neighbour has a big bucket of water standing out in a quiet place. Crows come to that water to soften hard dry crusts of bread, and sometimes they leave pieces of a prey in the water,
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I’m going to move the feeder from that old bench swing set to a nearby magnolia tree soon. I’m thinking the birds can’t get their footing well enough on the smooth iron, even though the feeder itself has rungs all around it.
Today I also put out some scrap meat and a metal bowl filled with water. Guess I need to keep that bowl filled all the way. I wouldn’t want anyone falling in.
Unless they’re way early (while we’re still asleep) I haven’t heard or seen any of my crow buddies yet. It may be that I’ll have to “prove” myself much the way I did here with my very first post asking what the words were that end in “gry”, which caused me untold heartache from some veteran Dopers who may have thought I was trolling. 
So this is day two and I put out those Wild Hog Sausage scraps which, if the weather were warmer would probably get rancid after a few days.
I looked up the thread mentioned earlier in this one, and a Doper added the witticism, “Quoth The Raven, ‘Eat My Shorts’.” I hope that wasn’t the reason he was banned!
Q
Q: Your email inspired comment threw me off track, as I was about to reply to your wonderful (previous) posts.
How about a MASS murder? For the past two weeks, we have been inundated by crows here. THOUSANDS of them. They begin to amass towards sundown in one spot with raucous crow talk, then, break up into smaller groups of perhaps one hundred each to roost for the night in nearby trees behind our house. We have lived on a ridge overlooking a small Appalachian town and have never experienced this “invasion” before. Each evening, it actually sounds like a train wreck for awhile…
Like you, I’ve wondered over the years how to befriend a crow or two. Now, with hordes of them at my doorstep, I’m not so sure…
Per your blog, I hope You and your Wife are doing well.
Dammit, missed the edit timeout again.
Should have said: “We have lived on a ridge overlooking a small Appalachian town** for 30 years…**”
My advice? Be patient. Nature has a way of evening things out.
In the words of the great George Carlin, “The Earth will be fine. It’s the PEOPLE who will be screwed.”
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And don’t write me any more false ID e-mails either, people. I’m tired of this crap. If you want to know something, ask me in your real DOPE name OUT LOUD or leave it alone. I’m busy painting and writing and playing songs. I don’t have TIME for this. Thanks for understanding.
Quasimodem
I’m counting on it.
My advice to you for attracting crows… Stale bread and whole shell peanuts + patience. Maybe that is the source of my problem right now…
Or as I’ve put it over the years, ‘It’s not the End of the World. I’t just the End of Us.’ (I didn’t know Carlin said something similar.)
I leave cat food out for some outdoor cats and the crows are always eating it.
We used to hunt crows. We used a few crow decoys, an owl decoy and a mouth call along with some shelled corn. Once we got one close, and got the call going, we’d have a respectable sized murder in no time.
I’d love to attract crows to my yard as well. I have three feeders that attract cardinals, bluejays, pigeons and all kinds of wild birds while the crows hang out and squawk in the trees in the neighbor’s yard. I know they can’t be afraid of my old cat (none of the birds are). What do they have against *my *yard, I wonder?
Yes. My dad had a crow that could say “Bob crows hot.”
I don’t know about talking - ours never learned it. But they are pretty good mimics. Our crow and blue jay would mimic each other. The blue jay would sound like a crow way across the yard up in a tree, and our crow would sound like a 40 lb blue jay.
Crows are scavengers, rancid helps them find it.
I like crows too and use to put out bread for them , they started to recognize me when I was taking my dog out . A crow would wait on a light pole for me and when I went outside the crow would start cawing to let the others crows food was coming , I would have to run back inside and get some bread sometimes.
A neighbor told me that the crows were waking her up at 5:30 AM by cawing so I had to stop feeding them.
Crows like to wash their meals off before eating it . I kept finding body parts of animals in my bird bath and had no idea who or what was doing this until someone told me on another forum . I had seen crows dropping body parts in the birdbath ! :eek: So when it get warmer out side up a bowl with water and hang birdfeeder near it so the crows will know they have a place to wash their meals. You could start picking roadkills and leaving it in your yard for the crows.
If you have enough crows in your yard, chances are you’ll see one with one or a few white feathers.
The first one I saw freaked me out, but looking around online, I saw it wasn’t too unusual.
I’ve also seen a piebald deer.