I am so worried about a family of crows that live at my office.
It all started about a week ago when I bought some food from the lunch truck and accidental dropped a large chunk of my burger on the ground under the pines that separate the sidewalk next to our building from the road.
A couple of days later I saw a couple of crows hanging out where I had dropped the food so I started leaving a little on purpose for them.
Then one morning the crows would keep to the lower branches and caw at me as if demanding food. So I started thinking I was making contact, typical Willow hubris.
As it turns out there's a grounded crow there and the two that keep cawing at me are trying to get me to chase them so they can lead me away from their child, or to warn the young crow to get away from me.
It's about 75% of the size of it's parents and the crows are obviously suffering from extreme emotional turmoil over it's predicament. I wish I could help them but fear any contact will just stress them more, the young one looks as if it were a bit wounded, perhaps it flew into a passing car? I don't know. It's mobile enough to watch for traffic and hop across the street to avoid me. I've named them so I'm screwed emotionally, it's Rufus and Chaka Khan and Junior.
I just wish there was something I could do beyond leaving food where Junior can get it.