Crow won't go.
Channel: Sqweezel
Date: 2008-07-15

This crow was being stalked by cats, I noticed them when he hopped up on me and I put my camera away.
I decided to take him inside, check if he was okay, clear the string off his foot, and try to feed him some tuna fish.
He ate, he even took a bath in the sink with his parents outside the window on the porch yelling. 
He even made friends with my girlfriend's bird who opened his cage and flew over to him on a mic stand in the kitchen while i was reading about crows and how to make sure they were okay if you find one.
I came out of the living room to see the two birds on the mic stand together, preening eachother....
I got photos of that as well. 
After he bathed, 
I dried him off and took him to the cemetery where he could hop up on stones and practice flying, there are low lying trees there.
In my other videos of him you can see the parents following me to the cemetery, they kept flying down and dropping dead bugs on me trying to feed him while he was on my shoulder.
I wound up placing him down where they could see him, backing off and they began feeding him.
I watched from a distance and took photos of him. 
After hours of hanging out there watching, i decided to go home.
Next day, he was flying a little bit, so i left him some tuna, he flopped down and ate it.
The next day he was on my porch cawing.
He followed me like a duck around town until I moved away a couple months later, flying from roof top to roof top when he would see me. I continued to return to the area after moving away temporarily for a job. If he saw me walking alone he would come down and waddle several feet behind me and i could still see him, but he would not come close enough to hang out like he did before.
Eventually I wound up moving from the area permanently, some times I would drive up to visit him, he would see me eventually if I walked around town or where I let him go, and he would bob his head as he cawed at me, as if to say "hello old friend" but he kept his distance. Now I knew he was okay, and on his way to living a long and happy crow life. (they can live up to 20 years in the wild and something like 35 years in captivity)
I COULD have kept him, but that would have been illegal, as crows in the United States are classified as a Migratory Bird, and it is illegal to keep migratory birds.
No crow should live in a cage, as they need at least a 15 mile range to be happy.
I would never have had the time and heart to keep him inside.
He belonged outside with his family, it was hard but that was where he needed to be.
He is still alive as far as I know, he has a distinctive call and pitch to his voice, and people I know who still live in the area say that he still returns to that porch and leaves things there.
I miss him, he misses me, but we are both where we belong and we both know we care for eachother.
HERE ARE THE PHOTOS I TOOK OF HIM WHILE I HAD HIM BRIEFLY AS A FRIEND: http://s247.photobucket.com/user/WillowFox/library/Crow
NEW LINK SORRY THE LAST IS DEAD... photobucket is literally holding the photos hostage for money. "Want to access your photos, pay money please, even though we were once free."
Here are the ones I have found in my stuff, I will upload more when I find them!:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Kpp2kaUq9qZfcwQZ9

P.S. The camera that it is being filmed with is on an old cell phone, at the time this was the best resolution YouTube would allow for upload, I have since lost the video as that cellphone was destroyed by accident.
The camera around my neck is a Canon Rebel XT, and no way of recording video.