My partner and I have been talking to the crows in our neighbourhood for several years. This one is new to me, but clearly was willing to have a conversation about the crackers in front of me.
The sound of crows is somehow magical. The sound they make in the large groups that congregate in Trout Lake park and the campus of BCIT is ethereal, with layers upon layers of cawing and cackling from all directions and different distances. The sound of a singular crow can be annoying when they caw. But this fellow was making the “human” sound, a particular noise crows make when they are interested in humans.
Bird map of my backyard (in class exercise)