Larry

Crows fly around my neighborhood and mostly eat things off the lawns and yards. I assume bugs and such. Of course, they are in trash too but I see that less often.

A few years ago, I brought my lunch to my backyard patio and as I sat down to eat, remembered that I forgot something. I went back inside to get it and and when I returned outside, a crow was on the table eating my sandwich. I angrily chased it away and was about to throw the sandwich out when I decided just to give it to the crow and threw it at him. He returned and and picked away at it. The next day he returned waiting for me, to my surprise. I was sitting on my patio table about the same time as I was the day before. I fed him again and over thce next couple of months, he periodically returned, landed on my toolshed behind my table and waited for me to feed him.  I started leaving food for him on the roof of the shed (cherries were his favorite) and he visited me all spring into the summer. A few times he landed on the table just a few feet from me and we watched each other and I would feed him. It was the first time I had ever been so close to a crow for so long,  Once when I had failed to eat outside for a few days, he even went to the rail on my from door porch and waited for. He also would wait for me if I was out on a walk, on a telephone pole a few houses down from me. When he saw me coming home he would fly to my back yard and wait. He suddenly stopped coming after few months and I never saw him again until the next year. That next year I was walking down my street and I heard crows cawing. I looked up and saw three crows flying by together when one suddenly pulled away from the other two, turned around and landed on the same telephone pole! I greeted him and he eyed me and when I walked home, he flew and waited for me in the back yard. We then  repeated our lunches in the back yard for a few months. Sometimes other crows would land on trees in my yard and watched or would try to take the food I left for him. I don't know if the other crows were from his family or were just trying to get in on a free meal.  After a couple of months he disappeared again but the next year he did not return, nor did he ever again. I miss him!  but it was an amazing experience and made me me love crows!  

I am so surprised at the extent and length of their family life.