I was in an open empty parking lot once and kept hearing this loud noise that sounded like a drop of water dripping into a bucket. I kept looking around and there was nothing there. I finally saw a crow sitting up on top of a street light and he was making the sound. I wasn't aware prior to this how good they are a mimicking sounds.
I also had a friend that took a crow egg out of the nest and hatched it herself. He would follow them behind the school bus to school and back. He would try to land on people's shoulders and freak them out. I gave him a little toy tractor and he would fly it up to the top of the metal barn roof, let it go and then catch it just as it dropped off the bottom and fly it back to the top again. It always surprised me how he would stick around being free outside, unlike other birds born in captivity.
When I was young there was this crow that would follow me when I would ride my bike anywhere. He would fly ahead to the next traffic sign and sit on top of it waiting for me to pass and soon as I passed he would fly ahead to the next sign, for every inch of all my journeys. If I would go into a store or someone's house the bird would perch on top of a sign and wait until I cam out and then follow me to my next destination or back to home. That kind of freaked me out, why the fuck is this bird following me everywhere I go?
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