Change of pace here for a bit.
Young Girl feeds crows, Receives gifts in return
Feeding the birds is fun, good mojo, and during the winter, helpful. Did you know that crows actually bond with the humans that feed them?
Crows are unique. They communicate with each other determining who sits where, how they fly, and this includes observing humans and determining if they provide food and how often. One little girl in Seattle feeds crows regularly. As a result, she has bonded with the murder of crows in her neighborhood. Her reward comes in the form of gifts that the crows leave behind in exchange for her generosity.
Eight-year-old Gabi Mann has been feeding her neighborhood crows since 2011. It began purely by accident when Gabi was a toddler. She would drop food, and to her delight, a crow would swoop down and take the treat. As she was prone to dropping food as little ones do, she had her own crow fan club waiting for her to drop another morsel.
As she got older, she shared her packed lunch on the way to the bus stop. The murder would wait for her to come home from school and she would share her leftovers with the crows.
As reported by BBC News, Gabi’s mother, Lisa, didn’t mind that crows consumed most of the school lunches she packed.
“I like that they love the animals and are willing to share,” she said, admitting she never noticed crows until her daughter took an interest in them. “It was a kind of transformation. I never thought about birds.”
The girl and her mother started feeding the crows on a daily basis in 2013. Every morning, they fill the birdbath with fresh water and set out peanuts. This is when the crows began leaving tokens of their appreciation.
Gabi and her mother noticed that the birds were leaving gifts after they started feeding them daily. Young Gabi has saved them all in a keepsake box, with the exception of the rotting crab claw that her mother hastily discarded.
Gabi Mann showed her treasure to a reporter.
“You may take a few close looks,” she said to the Durdur News, “but don’t touch.”
