[oilbagz]

I often see the 'crow lady' at our local park come to the fields and call out to 'her crows', and they immediately come to her, rest on her shoulders, coo and craw, and generally seem to be pets. Its pretty fun to see wild crows come when they're called, its magical.

She told me that she's been doing this with the crows for years - almost two decades now - and that she thinks the crows are telling their young about her, because she notices new generations over the years.

Of course, she's got treats for them - but even when they don't get treats, the crows seem to be really enamoured with her, as if she has a history of being the 'peanut giver' among the local murder.

[imchillyb]

> as if she has a history of being the 'peanut giver' among the local murder...

Adding the words ... investigation unit ... would completely change the tone of this 'peanut giver' message.

[Ronson]

That is really cool!

Around 4-5 years ago, I seen a baby seagull had fallen out of it's nest into my garden so I immediately noticed seagulls for the first time. I would feed it cheap haddock cuts. At first the parents were in attack mode but I feel that eventually they accepted me. It was cool to see the baby learn to fly and the parents seemingly being involved.

Anyway although it is hard to tell by looking, each year one of the parents comes back. The only way I feel I know is because in spring if I hang my washing out, all of a sudden this seagull will land and mooch around on the grass, sometimes I have to nudge it with my foot as I go along the washing line to get it out of the way. It's pretty odd given how cagey seagulls are and it doesn't do that if I am not alone.

Edit: I feed it bits and pieces which is the reason of course, but it's nice to see the association none the less.

Anyway I call him Steve as in Steven Seagal. Hopefully it's a male.

Crows would be even more cool.