Edgar Allan, you won't do. (A crow who's stalking me)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Y’all know I have critter issues.

I seem to attract the weirdos, oddballs and any planning on murdering me.

Well, Edgar Allan has found me.

Son-of-a-wrek is not sure it’s a Crow, at all. He says Grackle.

He does look a little different than the normies I have in abundance. I still say Crow.

He’s sorta given me the creepy crawlies.

I was walking my regular route today and Edgar stalked me the whole way. A scratchy caw, occasionally.

I was thinking we finally left him behind. Oh Noooooo! He popped outta the brush just as I was feeling safe.

Ivy nearly had a a heart attack.

He’s sitting calmly on the bird bath at the moment staring at the house.

Should I be concerned?

(PS, I’m getting some whole peanuts to give as an offering)

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Nevermore.

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Aaaaccckkk

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I never pictured Beck to be Robin the cradle.

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There is a wonderful running story on X about a crow named Gerard. The poster, Bexxa, is great at storytelling.

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Gift link to a New York Times article that crows hold grudges against humans who offend them, for as long as seventeen years.

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If it’s actually a crow, I’d start feeding it. Set out some dry dog food. Make a friend. You don’t want to make an enemy of a crow, because they not only can hold a grudge as @Dewey_Finn notes, ISTR they’ll teach other crows to perpetuate that grudge!

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Correct. That article says that when an individual crow has a grudge against a human, the rest of the murder will share that grudge.

They also tenaciously hold grudges. When a murder of crows singles out a person as dangerous, its wrath can be alarming, and can be passed along beyond an individual crow’s life span of up to a dozen or so years, creating multigenerational grudges.

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Yeah. I believe this is one of Son-of-a-wrek’s enemies.

He has made a whole murder mad at him.

He claims he’s never seen this one. Hmm :thinking:.

I feed many many birds everyday. The crows get more than their fair share. Greedy grumps, they are.

I hear peanuts are their favorites.

I ain’t above bribery.

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Is this cockney rhyming slang ? Edgar Allan Poe = Crow ?

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Na na na na na, Beckman

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I’ve got a Mockingbird that stalks me around the yard. He’s my Bird Friend.

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Well, Mr. Fish…I’ve been told I may have a Fish crow stalking me.

Do you know anything about that? Hmmm? :thinking:

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'Tis the wind and nothing more!

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A grackle is considerably smaller than a crow. And in the right light it’s head is usually a dark metallic shade of green. Unlike crows, grackles are not known for their intelligence (or vindictiveness).

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I’ll look closer. If I dare.

I’m certainly not inviting him into my bed chamber. He can rap rap rap to his hearts content.

(He isn’t actually knocking on my window pane…Yet)

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Perhaps you should befriend some hawks or other birds of prey.

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Think about what Edgar Allan Poe is known for. As alluded to by several other posters in this thread.

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Don’t think too hard.

Cause Poe wrote the Raven. Not the crow.

But you get it. Right?

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Nevermore. :frowning: