Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Feb 4
th, 2022 at 11:22am:
Family of three maggies, five butcher birds (they eat next door twice a day as well, but drop in for small snacks), and two currawongs currently saddled with two cuckoos feeding off them, random pack of grey minahs.... I'm videoing them and will put together a video. Small snacks of mince...
A couple of years ago I started feeding ravens (they're not crows!).
Bad idea.
They learn fast and soon they collected in large numbers to be fed at the time I would normally feed them (although they never got friendly).
And then they'd do what ravens do well: vocal jousting.
And if I was late to feed them - Maybe you can imagine the uptick in their vocal outrage.
Fair enough from their side of the argument. I'd given them an opportunity to consume high-energy food, so they'd given up foraging time to fly to our place. Not to feed them would be an insult in raven-speak, but I had to stop.
The neighbours being woken by that racket at 6:00AM overrode raven etiquette.
It took 3 months for them to unlearn the gathering.