My house ravens are currently eating a mule deer one bit at time but they are also chowing down on everything from tomato’s to sweet corn and zucchini squash.

Even so , the ravens in the wild around these parts of eastern Washington will not so much as look at corn or most other veggie’s.

My house ravens learned to eat such things from me , their momma daddy. Ravens are creatures of higher learning.

They eat mostly what their parents teach them to eat in an early stage in life and seldom vary from their learned foods unless it means life or death via starvation.

It has been my observation over the years that many foods ravens could eat in various geographical areas but choose not to are ignored because for the ravens to eat those foods would create conflict with humans that lead to the ravens extermination .

They know how to avoid conflict and do so more then crows.

Ravens are very intelligent , very calculating and most of all very loving to those to whom they choose to give their trust and devotion.

I also live with an American Crow with many of the same traits however she is less reserved in her decision making and much more Bolden in her will to perform outright acts of in your face defiance.

I love her all the more for it. Like the wild Corvus Corax she is a one person bird. I raised her after she was brought to me with extensive injuries from a raptor attack on a nest in a nearby town.

Kublai , my house blackbilled magpie is of course the shyest of them all , the quickest in calculation and bits the hardest.

She was recued from a house where she was treated very poorly. She was held in a drug den for the first two years of life.

Yet it is her that makes the tool with the fork in it to retrieve food from a round curtain rod above her roost.

The same shape and design every time I might add. She is the one that sleeps with me at night and folds her wing over my knee on cold nights to protect me from the cold.

To wake up in the middle of the night and find a blackbilled magpie resting next to your cheek holding the end of your nose gently and staring into you eye is rather mind blowing.

Being a Corvid daddy I have truly enjoyed your observations and know that I have found your blog will continue to read about your corvid experiences with the interest they deserve , few people appreciate the true intelligent, at time ornery and yet above all else loving nature of the Crovidae.

JR.Inghram