Kip, Jip, Pip and Baby Mip now follow me, even when I’m out of peanuts

I've been trying to befriend the murder in my area for a month or so now and hubby got me a trail cam for Christmas. We finally set it up today and I wanted to share this cool shot!

These birds are so beautiful.

Only reason I love to go to work.

I started feeding a crow couple with a sickly chick last summer. They were interested in the treats I threw for my dogs while training and I gave them some. Now it’s about 7 months later and the chick is grown up and they follow me around when I walk my dogs, sometimes bringing other crows or ravens. They go absolutely nuts for one of my dogs’ allergy kibble, so much that they fight for it. They really like fish flavoured cat food, sunflower seeds and boiled eggs, freaked out a bit (in a good way) when they got dried rabbit meat but they’ll leave egg shells, whole meal bread and one kind of kibble. They didn’t touch dried worms that my friend bought (she also feeds them, lives in the house nextdoor) despite multiple attempts.

These crows have trained me so well (they absolutely demand food if they see me and if I pretend I didn’t see them, the biggest male will fly in front of my face and caw) so I’ve found myself carrying a bag of crow treats whenever I go out now. We have snow and the ground is frozen so they’re extra hungry and I want to give them something fun!

I put out peanuts at my regular time in the morning but the peanuts are still there when the sun went down. This is the first time this has happened. I thought I heard them but when I looked there were no birds. It wasn’t unusually cold and there was just a light dusting of snow but it was basically gone after a few hours. Is this common?