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We only go this way 2-4 times a week. The next couple of visits nothing happened and I just assumed it was a fluke. But then!

I did the usual daft noise and left treats on Christopher Cragg’s gravestone. 2 of them came! As me and Dolly got about 10 metres / 30ft away they plopped onto the grass and then one of them jumped up, ate one treat, put the other in its beak and flew off to eat it in peace.

Since then every time I visit so maybe 10 or 15 times, they’ve appeared! Sometimes before I put the treats down, sometimes after.
Occasionally they’ll follow us around the cemetery whilst Dolly hunts for cat scent

I love all birds but Crows and corvids in general have a special place in my heart

As I pass through the cemetery on my dog walk there’s a couple of crows who often hang around in a certain corner.
In an attempt to befriend them, for the past year or so I’ve been making loud sort of crow noises and leaving a dog treat or two on the top of the same gravestone in the hope of them associating the strange human skwawks with a gift. A few days ago I nearly gave up bothering as it’d never worked but didn’t want to risk it

The crows were not around as is fairly common.
I put a couple of treaty crumbs in the usual spot and when I was about 20 metres further on I checked back and there it was, a gorgeous beautiful crow

Yesterday was the same. No sign of the crows, skwawk, leave treat, skwawk, give Dolly a treat cos she’s cottoned onto it by now. Check back and there’s the splendid beastie again!

I was buzzing all the way home. I’m going to go again soon