There are crows that hang out at my school. I see them picking around the lunch area outside, but I don’t really know what they like to eat. I’ve tried tossing things to them, but they fly away.
On Wednesday, someone had spilled trail mix on the floor outside my classroom. There was a crow in the courtyard, and I threw a peanut to it. It ate it! Then I threw a cashew. It flew away. Dang.
Then yesterday morning when I walked past the pile of trail mix, it looked like this:
Ha! The crows had found it and eaten all the peanuts and cashews, but left the raisins. So I have learned a little bit about what crows eat – not raisins.
Crows understand that raisins are the last resort in the food world. (Unless they’re covered in chocolate.)
Beware befriending crows. It’s cute at first, but then you’re a warlock for the rest of your life.
Perhaps they’ve recalled negative Trick or Treat results in past years (you know the old lady who only hands out those tiny boxes of raisins?) and knew to stay away. Just a thought…