Crows Volley in Response

The crows have rejected all the jewelry bits but for one: a silver ball. That one is gone. 

It was the biggest item in the trove I left last week. I imagine the crows looked at the little pins and staples and said, “Well at least this silver ball isn’t a choking hazard, I will take that.”

You can see their favorite below, right side.

This is the new set I have put in the tree. The bottom one is silver with rhinestones, for any crows with no taste. As for the other two, crows may end up worshipping the graven image of the silver bird and the bicycle may spur them on to make new crow technology. 

And, I know, I’m doing this backward. Humans give the food, crow give the trinkets. I am establishing myself in this relationship as the trinket bank. Totally possible the crows will say, “This crazy lonely human, trying to forge a relationship with crows for god’s sake, seems to have all the shiny objects a person could need.” However, a f riend reports a story of crows that began to “pay” a man by giving him actual folding money. That would be good.

UPDATE ===================

It has been one day and the bird and bike are gone. The crows caw, "Representational objects do not occur in nature! This is magic!"

Comments

[KC]

I mean, upending the traditional crow/human gift narrative, why not?

(I suspect *reinforcing* a behavior is easier than attempting to *elicit* a behavior, though; I have heard of a party game where you use a dog clicker to attempt to convince a human to do a specific thing, but they do not know what the desired action/behavior is; like charades or hot/cold, except you can only communicate using the clicker while they attempt different things in an effort to discover the goal.)

Good luck with the cat, good luck with the crows, probably try to keep the two separate...

[theQueen]

KC - Oh, I have no interest in staging a cat vs crows battle. The crows would win.

[theQueen]

KC - I would never pit Goldie against the Crows; Goldie would lose.

[KC]

Fundamentally, it wouldn't be pretty. And both Goldie and crows would probably end up mad.