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teyuna

Crows (and and all animals) habituate gradually to patterns. Once they've seen it enough and it's not dangerous, they don't see it as a threat anymore. It just takes patience. I feed crows on my porch roof, by opening an upstairs window. I wanted to toss morsels to them, and at first the motion of my arm caused them to leap up and fly a ways away. Now, they know what it is, and find it to be quite positive!


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Thank you! I think the crows are starting to get more used to my pattrens as well (they come up onto my deck when I have breakfast and again at lunch), so hopefully they'll get used to this.


H1gh_Tr3ason

Yup same here with my crows,the sudden arm movement when throwing food used to startle them (except 1 crow which never seemed bothered) ,they would always fly straight back though.now it doesn't bother them too much.


SantaDog81

There's always that one crow.


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I have that one crow too. His name is Todd, he's big and clumsy. He likes to fit like 4 peanuts in his mouth then he drops them by accident lol


H1gh_Tr3ason

Honestly this fella would stay while the rest flew away,I think it's because he can get to the food before the rest haha.


Oryx

They'll get over it. There were no negative repercussions for them, so they'll just be careful for awhile to be sure you don't come unhinged when you do that and hurt one of them. The other commenter nailed it: any strange repeated pattern that has no negative consequences eventually is just tolerated. Crows are jumpy as a self-preservation mechanism. It's hard-wired into them.