this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2024
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Crows

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Bring stories and images of your encounters with crows, ravens, and other corvids. Link articles and anecdotes. Note here your literary references. Art welcome.

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This guy was up on the window sill as I started to take a picture, but then he saw me and knew I was good for treats, so he dropped off the edge and I got the shot right before he started spreading his wings.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Birds fall from the window ledge above mine.
Then they flap their wings at the last second. 

You see birds fall from the window ledge above mine.
Then they flap their wings at the last second.
I can see their dead weight
Just dropping like stones
For small loaves of bread
Past my window all the time.
But unless I get up,
Walk across the room
And peer down below,
I don't see their last second curves
Toward a horizontal flight.
All these birds just falling from the ledge like stones.

[–] technohacker@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago

weeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's cool, that he comes towards you. Does he already know you? Because last time I tried to feed unknown crows and they noticed me looking at them for two seconds, they got scared, even though I was like 10 meters away and other people had been passing closer than me. You could almost see a small exclamation mark above their head before they flew off. I still left some food and they came back to it, once I was further away.

[–] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, he knows I'm good for treats. His murder follows me around outside work a lot.

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

Cool! I hope to befriend some crows someday.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Here we gooooooo!