@@VelvetVulva me, too! They also greet Mrs Gooseberry as she comes from and goes to work and she carries peanuts just for that reason - you can’t help but smile at the relationship, as you well know. 🥰 I’m visually impaired so I don’t always see them but I think the crows realize it as they will fly very close to me and make a soft noise so I can spot them. Crows are the best!
Hello also from Sweden. We have a very large crow living around us, he watches and eyeballs us for food. When the crow couple finishes eating the jackdaws waiting. When the seagulls come back to nest it's a mess! I fed a baby 2 years ago, now he comes straight here the day they arrive. This 2nd year his baby came with him.
@@ianmclaughlin8987 Every morning I see them it puts a smile on my face. That jay, Chickenhead, is super confident in my presence. He’s even gone so far as come into my garage while I’m working, and lead me to the back door to fetch him peanuts. th-cam.com/video/zJl3qFIfl54/w-d-xo.html
@phillygirl52jax44 oh my gosh, isn’t that the best? You might like this video, the kid is pretty persistent and it’s early December, anything for an easy meal. 🥰🥳🤣 th-cam.com/video/FUWsHYeXIYE/w-d-xo.html
Ha! "my" crows take two peanuts in their beak as well, if they can get away with it. The trick with the third one shoved down their throats I have never yet seen. Though mostly they open and eat the peanuts at once, only the walnuts are carried away. Greetings to your crows, I love these birds!
@charlyheather1822 Greetings to you! In some of my older videos, Sadie, the since passed matriarch of the crows that visit me currently, grabs four peanuts. I’m not sure if it’s captured, but periodically, with the right sized peanuts for her caw, she would grab five peanuts. Defo lots of thinking going on in her head.
I am in N.B., I always throw 3 peanuts, the crows can carry that many. They do love walnuts and chicken/turkey scraps - the raw fat you cut off and the pieces you wouldn't eat once cooked :)
@bguntern that’s pretty cool! A commonality connected by crows. 🤣🥰🥳 I also make cheese and my project this year is to make a gruyère style cheese & emmental style cheese, and using a gooseberry honey wine as a white wine replacement and a dash of my cherry mead in place of Kirschwasser, make my own fondue from scratch.
Nice to meet you from Ireland. Thank you for the video. I'm mesmerised by the technique I spotted the crow had in order to carry as many as three peanut shells in one go!
@@aldente2011 Hello Eire! This murder’s since passed matriarch, Sadie, was even better. She could do four on the regular if there were two smaller peanuts to put into her caw. On the odd occasion, she’d stack a small three peanut pyramid after the two in her caw for a total of five. I haven’t seen any of her progeny replicate that so far.
We've created a feeding platform for the crows on our deck too. In the less rainy months, we add a shallow dish of water. This year, they had four babies, so papa was super busy getting water to take back to the nest. He was at the water constantly. I heard you say "eh," so you must be in Canada like we are. I figured you were east of us though. The Blue Jay clinched it. Here in Vancouver we have Stellers Jays instead, but not many, sadly.
@CharlotteIssyvoo, you're not wrong about location. These videos are coming from Halifax, NS. I was born in BC, though! In my older videos, you can see my old deck, which was replaced two summers ago and having a feeding platform for the crows & jays was not an added feature, it was one of the defining purposes of the new deck. I mean, to me and undoubtedly you, entertaining friends is one of the best reasons and these guys are most definitely my friends.
@@GooseberryHollow My husband is from Halifax. I'm originally from Massachusetts and New York. Yeah, we just had a proper deck added to our house and we had four important elements: a catio, a place to feed the songbirds, a feeding platform for the crows, and a lift (elevator platform) because I'm disabled. We also put a bubbling rock fountain in the yard for the warmer months. The crows are definitely our friends. They even invite their own friends and relations to join them when we feed them, so we sometimes get 20 at at time. Occasionally we feed them as all the city's crows are flying to their night roost. Then we'll get like 50 crows! (As I wrote this response, one of my cats went nuts because a crow was on the platform.)
@@GooseberryHollow Oh, I wanted to say that my husband and I both thought your crow's caws sound different from the ones out here. Are we imagining that? Do you remember?
@@CharlotteIssyvoo oh my gosh, I hope we don’t attract our local crows as they fly to their communal roost. 🤣 Look up the Mount Saint Vincent Sisters of Charity Motherhouse murder. It’s been estimated at being over 5,000 crows. I live about 2km from their roost and the small percentage, a hundred or two, that overfly my house on a daily basis, to and from, is pretty cool. I’d sure have trouble feeding them all, but I’d try! 🥰 Jan 2024, one of the original to me mated pair that I’d befriended passed. As evidenced by their ‘funeral’ for her. It wasn’t until I realized she wasn’t around that I clued in to what this was. Sadie was pretty sharp. Only crow I saw get five peanuts in one trip. Three was easy, four the usual and periodically, with the right peanuts, she’d hit cinco. Here’s the video th-cam.com/video/bgv1hchBb_I/w-d-xo.html As to your query, it’s been 35 years since I’ve lived in BC and I can’t recall the caw sound there. Maybe if you recorded yours we could compare…
@@GooseberryHollow The Vancouver roosting spot is thought to be about 10,000 crows, though I'd guess it's even more. Most of the city can see them flying to and from it each day. Only some drop down to join us sometimes, not all of them! But we often get the crow family whose territory begins just down the alley from us. When we go down the alley, they follow us because they know us well. We too have witnessed a crow funeral. It was at our old place and we did find the body too (and bury it). It went on for three days. It's just heart breaking and amazing. Interestingly, they don't have funerals when their very young die though. I guess because it's so normal. They lost one of their four last year and didn't seem bothered by it. We buried it. I think I have a few videos of crows posted on my youtube here if you check.
@@jackbraddell8683 isn’t that the nicest feeling? It was quite clear my return was an event worth noting in crow world. What I loved and isn’t on the video, is after the initial hubbub did down, one of the mated pair sat on the upper deck railing, and while there was food available, it just checked me out for about three minutes, making soft noises. It really felt like they were seeing if I was ok. It sure made my heart light. 🥰
@@legitimatehuman1220 It might seem that way, but I’m afraid they don’t swallow peanuts whole. Crows, like a lot of avians, have a gular pouch, a loose bit of throat skin that expands a bit so they can store things. If you watch, as a crow tries to carry three or more peanuts, they’ll sometimes ‘shop’ for a peanut that fits better. That’s when you’ll see them spit out the already stored nut for a more suitable peanut. 🤣🥳🥰
@@GooseberryHollow Wow, sieht super lecker aus. Ich für meinen Teil kann nicht kochen, bei einem ungeduldigen Menschen wir mir muss immer alles schnell gehen, wenn ich Hunger verspüre. Was ich noch empfehlen kann ist "Bauernfrühstück" und "Cordon Bleu"🤤🤤🤤
Hola desde España! La amistad con los córvidos es algo muy intenso, no son como el resto de aves. A mí me sigue una amiga urraca para saber dônde voy (después de darle sus cacahuetes y haber estado charlando con ella). Se arriesgan a salir de su territorio por la curiosidad de saber todo de tí y por si necesitas protección. Ésto lo hacen en completo silencio, pero si estás atento, seguro las ves cuando vas a hacer la compra o vas al trabajo. Cuando descubrí esto, comencé a llamarla (se llama Trini y contesta a su nombre. También ellos nos ponen nombre a nosotros 😃), se ponen muy contentos de que nos demos cuenta de su presencia fuera del territorio y suelen acudir cerca de tí si los llamas. Trini, se va muy lejos de su territorio para seguirme y siempre lleva cacahuetes en su pico como un tributo, para dejarlos en territorio de otras urracas que no la permiten estar ahí. Son fascinantes!❤ Muchas gracias por el vídeo, nueva suscriptora.
@camino11 ¡Son muy fascinantes! Nos encantan los cuervos que nos visitan. Los cuervos saludan a mi esposa en su parada de autobús, a unos cientos de metros de nuestra casa. La siguen cuando va a trabajar y la encuentran cuando llega a casa antes del anochecer. Lleva maní para ese propósito. No tan lejos de su territorio como tú, pero me has inspirado para que me sigan en mis paseos. ¡Muchas gracias por mirar y suscribirte! No tiene relación, pero uno de mis vídeos de cocina es una tarta de queso vasca. Mmmmm me encanta ese postre!
@@GooseberryHollow Merci ! Thanks for the vids. Excellent french sir ! You just forgot a little word right after "petit". We say "Je parle un petit peu (le français). Nice to meet you sir, please keep it up !
@@MuhammadIsMuslim D’oh! I even know that, just had a brain fart. An affliction that happens on the regular in my dotage. 🤣 I appreciate the praise and will keep on filming my flying friends!
Did that crow actually swallow a whole peanut in the shell? One took two in its beak at the same time. That I understand, but swallow shell and all? It is going to regurgitate it later after it carries it off somewhere? The crows in my area like peanuts. I usually smash the shells a bit to make them easier to open. But, what they like even better is meat scraps, particularly fat. I render it until it's crispy. Stale bread, too. Sometimes I soak bread in water/grease from boiling meat, kind of like a gravy. That's a really big hit with them. I can tell because they swoop down from their tree perches even before I've gotten back to my house. If they're not so interested in what I've put out, they take their time. Another favorite treat is popped popcorn. They don't like the unpopped kernels. May be hard to grind up in their gizzards. Have fun feeding yours. The neighbors don't like me feeding them. They say crows scare off smaller birds. Don't know if that's true or if there's just not any smaller birds around anymore due to habitat loss. And yes, they know you. They missed you. You're part of their clan, the part that provides food. Crows can recognize human faces, and they have very long memories.
@@conniewojahn6445 It looks like they swallow the peanut whole, but they’re not swallowing it. 🥰 Crows have a gular pouch, a storage area for carrying extra food. What looks like swallowing is just putting the peanut in the pouch. Crows are the best! 🥰
@86753091974 I know exactly what you mean! Because I do the same thing. 🥰🥳🤣 Crows try chicken th-cam.com/video/_EVE2zTBRsI/w-d-xo.html Crow have beef th-cam.com/video/jO8mfEk-Pxc/w-d-xo.html
@quantumcat7673 It sure seems like it, doesn’t it? 🥳 In fact, it’s saved for later. Crows have a small gular pouch under the chin to help carry food, to cache or take back to the nest. Thanks so much for watching!
Question: do you prepare them for your going away? I've been wondering about that, I asked Chat GPT and it recommended slowly reducing the amount over the course of a week before leaving and then leaving the normal amount when you return. Do you have a similar approach or just leave them to their own devices?
@@somaticspirituality I did zero prep. 🥳 Bought my ticket on a Monday, flew out that Thursday. Not that I thought about weaning them down - ‘cuz I haven’t really. I don’t feed them huge amounts, so I know I’m not a major source of food, just a very handy and easy one. Between the amount of caching and their smarts at foraging for themselves, they seem to be doing fine. Thanks for watching! 🥰
Hello from Sweden! I carry peanuts while walking the dog to feed the neighborhood jackdaws & hooded crows. They follow us around the neighborhood!
@@VelvetVulva me, too! They also greet Mrs Gooseberry as she comes from and goes to work and she carries peanuts just for that reason - you can’t help but smile at the relationship, as you well know. 🥰
I’m visually impaired so I don’t always see them but I think the crows realize it as they will fly very close to me and make a soft noise so I can spot them.
Crows are the best!
Hello also from Sweden. We have a very large crow living around us, he watches and eyeballs us for food. When the crow couple finishes eating the jackdaws waiting. When the seagulls come back to nest it's a mess! I fed a baby 2 years ago, now he comes straight here the day they arrive. This 2nd year his baby came with him.
@@beckinfidelis3916 @VelvetVulva Almost time for Janssen’s Frestelse! Merry Christmas!
@@VelvetVulva are u peepee langstrauf?
I love how sufficiently greedy they are! 😀
Great video, I love crows myself as they are so smart. I was glad to see the blue jay got a snack too :)
@@ianmclaughlin8987 Every morning I see them it puts a smile on my face.
That jay, Chickenhead, is super confident in my presence. He’s even gone so far as come into my garage while I’m working, and lead me to the back door to fetch him peanuts.
th-cam.com/video/zJl3qFIfl54/w-d-xo.html
Love watching them feed their offspring. Some babies almost as big as their parents but flap their wings and cry for food. It's so cute.
@phillygirl52jax44 oh my gosh, isn’t that the best?
You might like this video, the kid is pretty persistent and it’s early December, anything for an easy meal. 🥰🥳🤣
th-cam.com/video/FUWsHYeXIYE/w-d-xo.html
when i was little , i loved cawing at our neigborhood crows and theyd answer back.
Ha! "my" crows take two peanuts in their beak as well, if they can get away with it. The trick with the third one shoved down their throats I have never yet seen. Though mostly they open and eat the peanuts at once, only the walnuts are carried away. Greetings to your crows, I love these birds!
@charlyheather1822 Greetings to you!
In some of my older videos, Sadie, the since passed matriarch of the crows that visit me currently, grabs four peanuts.
I’m not sure if it’s captured, but periodically, with the right sized peanuts for her caw, she would grab five peanuts. Defo lots of thinking going on in her head.
Nice, healthy looking crows 😀
I love crows! 💕🐦⬛💕 That’s a great platform! Crows make the best friends! 💜 And Bluejays definitely love peanuts too! 🥜🥜🥜
@@IX-xj8cy thanks! The birds definitely like the platform.
Looks like they are happy that you're home.
@JugglesGrenades That’s the story I’m sticking to! 🥳
Love how they grab a couple 😂
I like watching them trying to maximize their loot.
gulp, gulp, gulp. mmmmmm , goood .
I am in N.B., I always throw 3 peanuts, the crows can carry that many. They do love walnuts and chicken/turkey scraps - the raw fat you cut off and the pieces you wouldn't eat once cooked :)
You’re right about scraps and trim. They love those!
Greetings from Halifax!
Your friends are very greedy; obviously they are very happy you are back. Wonderful filming, thank you! Greetings from Switzerland
They do like a peanut or two. :D
I was happy to see them, too.
@@bguntern I used to run a Swiss restaurant, cuisine based on canton Wallis! Small world! Greetings from Canada!
@@GooseberryHollow - and the small world is even getting smaller: my homeland is the Canton of Wallis 🥹
@bguntern that’s pretty cool! A commonality connected by crows. 🤣🥰🥳
I also make cheese and my project this year is to make a gruyère style cheese & emmental style cheese, and using a gooseberry honey wine as a white wine replacement and a dash of my cherry mead in place of Kirschwasser, make my own fondue from scratch.
That three note rising whistle has to be some sort of universal call.
Nice to meet you from Ireland. Thank you for the video. I'm mesmerised by the technique I spotted the crow had in order to carry as many as three peanut shells in one go!
@@aldente2011 Hello Eire!
This murder’s since passed matriarch, Sadie, was even better. She could do four on the regular if there were two smaller peanuts to put into her caw. On the odd occasion, she’d stack a small three peanut pyramid after the two in her caw for a total of five.
I haven’t seen any of her progeny replicate that so far.
Crow is amiable!!!🌳🐦⬛🙏
1:05 crow was thinking “should I take a third one? You know just in case?…hm why not”
We've created a feeding platform for the crows on our deck too. In the less rainy months, we add a shallow dish of water. This year, they had four babies, so papa was super busy getting water to take back to the nest. He was at the water constantly. I heard you say "eh," so you must be in Canada like we are. I figured you were east of us though. The Blue Jay clinched it. Here in Vancouver we have Stellers Jays instead, but not many, sadly.
@CharlotteIssyvoo, you're not wrong about location. These videos are coming from Halifax, NS. I was born in BC, though!
In my older videos, you can see my old deck, which was replaced two summers ago and having a feeding platform for the crows & jays was not an added feature, it was one of the defining purposes of the new deck.
I mean, to me and undoubtedly you, entertaining friends is one of the best reasons and these guys are most definitely my friends.
@@GooseberryHollow My husband is from Halifax. I'm originally from Massachusetts and New York. Yeah, we just had a proper deck added to our house and we had four important elements: a catio, a place to feed the songbirds, a feeding platform for the crows, and a lift (elevator platform) because I'm disabled. We also put a bubbling rock fountain in the yard for the warmer months. The crows are definitely our friends. They even invite their own friends and relations to join them when we feed them, so we sometimes get 20 at at time. Occasionally we feed them as all the city's crows are flying to their night roost. Then we'll get like 50 crows! (As I wrote this response, one of my cats went nuts because a crow was on the platform.)
@@GooseberryHollow Oh, I wanted to say that my husband and I both thought your crow's caws sound different from the ones out here. Are we imagining that? Do you remember?
@@CharlotteIssyvoo oh my gosh, I hope we don’t attract our local crows as they fly to their communal roost. 🤣
Look up the Mount Saint Vincent Sisters of Charity Motherhouse murder. It’s been estimated at being over 5,000 crows.
I live about 2km from their roost and the small percentage, a hundred or two, that overfly my house on a daily basis, to and from, is pretty cool. I’d sure have trouble feeding them all, but I’d try! 🥰
Jan 2024, one of the original to me mated pair that I’d befriended passed. As evidenced by their ‘funeral’ for her. It wasn’t until I realized she wasn’t around that I clued in to what this was. Sadie was pretty sharp. Only crow I saw get five peanuts in one trip. Three was easy, four the usual and periodically, with the right peanuts, she’d hit cinco.
Here’s the video
th-cam.com/video/bgv1hchBb_I/w-d-xo.html
As to your query, it’s been 35 years since I’ve lived in BC and I can’t recall the caw sound there. Maybe if you recorded yours we could compare…
@@GooseberryHollow The Vancouver roosting spot is thought to be about 10,000 crows, though I'd guess it's even more. Most of the city can see them flying to and from it each day. Only some drop down to join us sometimes, not all of them! But we often get the crow family whose territory begins just down the alley from us. When we go down the alley, they follow us because they know us well.
We too have witnessed a crow funeral. It was at our old place and we did find the body too (and bury it). It went on for three days. It's just heart breaking and amazing. Interestingly, they don't have funerals when their very young die though. I guess because it's so normal. They lost one of their four last year and didn't seem bothered by it. We buried it.
I think I have a few videos of crows posted on my youtube here if you check.
Baby sweety s God bless all
lovely video!
Thank you very much!
They're such elegant creatures until they start awkwardly stuffing five nuts into their beaks like humans would do with boiled eggs.
My crow friends flew around celebrating when I just returned from my six day trip to resume feeding them.
@@jackbraddell8683 isn’t that the nicest feeling?
It was quite clear my return was an event worth noting in crow world. What I loved and isn’t on the video, is after the initial hubbub did down, one of the mated pair sat on the upper deck railing, and while there was food available, it just checked me out for about three minutes, making soft noises.
It really felt like they were seeing if I was ok.
It sure made my heart light. 🥰
"Crows are known for their intelligence and problem-solving ability."
*crow tries to swallow peanuts whole*
@@legitimatehuman1220 It might seem that way, but I’m afraid they don’t swallow peanuts whole. Crows, like a lot of avians, have a gular pouch, a loose bit of throat skin that expands a bit so they can store things.
If you watch, as a crow tries to carry three or more peanuts, they’ll sometimes ‘shop’ for a peanut that fits better. That’s when you’ll see them spit out the already stored nut for a more suitable peanut.
🤣🥳🥰
hello Buddies👋🙂, greetings from german fellows.
@@krakraakraaa... greetings from Canada! 🥳
Oh, I love German food!
Jägerschnitzel is soooo yummy. Made this a few years back.
th-cam.com/video/DMl8p12ZQBk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=0jodxZyE1pugkFEy
@@GooseberryHollow Wow, sieht super lecker aus. Ich für meinen Teil kann nicht kochen, bei einem ungeduldigen Menschen wir mir muss immer alles schnell gehen, wenn ich Hunger verspüre. Was ich noch empfehlen kann ist "Bauernfrühstück" und "Cordon Bleu"🤤🤤🤤
Hola desde España!
La amistad con los córvidos es algo muy intenso, no son como el resto de aves. A mí me sigue una amiga urraca para saber dônde voy (después de darle sus cacahuetes y haber estado charlando con ella). Se arriesgan a salir de su territorio por la curiosidad de saber todo de tí y por si necesitas protección. Ésto lo hacen en completo silencio, pero si estás atento, seguro las ves cuando vas a hacer la compra o vas al trabajo.
Cuando descubrí esto, comencé a llamarla (se llama Trini y contesta a su nombre. También ellos nos ponen nombre a nosotros 😃), se ponen muy contentos de que nos demos cuenta de su presencia fuera del territorio y suelen acudir cerca de tí si los llamas.
Trini, se va muy lejos de su territorio para seguirme y siempre lleva cacahuetes en su pico como un tributo, para dejarlos en territorio de otras urracas que no la permiten estar ahí.
Son fascinantes!❤
Muchas gracias por el vídeo, nueva suscriptora.
@@camino11 gracias! 🥰
@camino11 ¡Son muy fascinantes! Nos encantan los cuervos que nos visitan.
Los cuervos saludan a mi esposa en su parada de autobús, a unos cientos de metros de nuestra casa. La siguen cuando va a trabajar y la encuentran cuando llega a casa antes del anochecer. Lleva maní para ese propósito.
No tan lejos de su territorio como tú, pero me has inspirado para que me sigan en mis paseos.
¡Muchas gracias por mirar y suscribirte!
No tiene relación, pero uno de mis vídeos de cocina es una tarta de queso vasca. Mmmmm me encanta ese postre!
Interesting 🎉🎉🎉
I think so too!
Hi from France, subbed !
@MuhammadIsMuslim Merci! Profitez des vidéos!
Je parle un petit. La famille de ma femme était Bretonne et elle est Acadienne.
@@GooseberryHollow Merci ! Thanks for the vids. Excellent french sir ! You just forgot a little word right after "petit". We say "Je parle un petit peu (le français). Nice to meet you sir, please keep it up !
@@MuhammadIsMuslim D’oh! I even know that, just had a brain fart. An affliction that happens on the regular in my dotage. 🤣
I appreciate the praise and will keep on filming my flying friends!
u can feel thatvurgency of early december, to survive
We are Crow pro
Did that crow actually swallow a whole peanut in the shell? One took two in its beak at the same time. That I understand, but swallow shell and all? It is going to regurgitate it later after it carries it off somewhere? The crows in my area like peanuts. I usually smash the shells a bit to make them easier to open. But, what they like even better is meat scraps, particularly fat. I render it until it's crispy. Stale bread, too. Sometimes I soak bread in water/grease from boiling meat, kind of like a gravy. That's a really big hit with them. I can tell because they swoop down from their tree perches even before I've gotten back to my house. If they're not so interested in what I've put out, they take their time. Another favorite treat is popped popcorn. They don't like the unpopped kernels. May be hard to grind up in their gizzards. Have fun feeding yours. The neighbors don't like me feeding them. They say crows scare off smaller birds. Don't know if that's true or if there's just not any smaller birds around anymore due to habitat loss. And yes, they know you. They missed you. You're part of their clan, the part that provides food. Crows can recognize human faces, and they have very long memories.
@@conniewojahn6445 It looks like they swallow the peanut whole, but they’re not swallowing it. 🥰
Crows have a gular pouch, a storage area for carrying extra food. What looks like swallowing is just putting the peanut in the pouch.
Crows are the best! 🥰
most crows like the peanuts but i have some spoiled ones that are looking for better food like chicken or steak.
@86753091974 I know exactly what you mean! Because I do the same thing. 🥰🥳🤣
Crows try chicken th-cam.com/video/_EVE2zTBRsI/w-d-xo.html
Crow have beef th-cam.com/video/jO8mfEk-Pxc/w-d-xo.html
Wonderful, intelligent creatures. Was that a Jay that came in at 1:56 ?
The crow eat the peanut in its shell.
@quantumcat7673 It sure seems like it, doesn’t it? 🥳
In fact, it’s saved for later. Crows have a small gular pouch under the chin to help carry food, to cache or take back to the nest.
Thanks so much for watching!
"Benson is going to be so pissed"
next Jay will be called Mordechai. 🤣
Question: do you prepare them for your going away? I've been wondering about that, I asked Chat GPT and it recommended slowly reducing the amount over the course of a week before leaving and then leaving the normal amount when you return. Do you have a similar approach or just leave them to their own devices?
@@somaticspirituality I did zero prep. 🥳
Bought my ticket on a Monday, flew out that Thursday.
Not that I thought about weaning them down - ‘cuz I haven’t really.
I don’t feed them huge amounts, so I know I’m not a major source of food, just a very handy and easy one. Between the amount of caching and their smarts at foraging for themselves, they seem to be doing fine.
Thanks for watching! 🥰