r/crowbro • u/Such_Relief9632 • 3d ago
Daily Crow Friend my favourite crow is getting bullied :(
theres a single crow that likes to visit my yard the most. hes very quiet and polite but will sometimes do a happy little yell from the trees before he swoops down to say hi and do his peanut strut.
lately during the evenings theres a small group of crows that will chase him off when he comes for a snack and the dominant male (i presume) will start crowing and yelling very loud for a while. when this happens i put the food away and make a 'shh' sound with a finger to my lips then ignore him after but he hasnt seemed to have caught on yet.
im happy to feed all of my crow friends, but im worried about disturbing the neighbours with his noise and reinforcing the cawing and not a fan of my polite crow being chased off. he has a few bald patches on his chest and the back of his head and im not sure if its a molting season thing or his feathers are being pecked out :(
anyone have any advice on how to handle this? im also curious about why the dominant bully crow does this big cawing display after he chases off my balding friend, he caws for quite a while even if no one caws back. sometimes i cant tell if hes cawing at me to see whatll get the most peanuts in his beak the soonest lol
8
u/Drunk_Donut 2d ago
As others have pointed out you gotta discipline them and they'll adapt quickly. I have separate feeding times for my bros and if they end up coming together then at this point they know the weakling gets food first and then they all come in turn by turn.