Why is this crow doing this?

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We have a crow who keeps coming back to our flat and drops stones on the skylights. He stands on the skylight, drops a stone on it, then picks it up and does it again, sometimes for ages. He'll often move between skylights too. Is this normal practice or have we got a nutjob bird?
 
Either it is having fun or sometimes when it drops the stone there will be some creepy crawlies that appear after the event.

That's my guess anyway.
 
He is trying to break open the skylight, so he can attack at night and catch you unawares, and eat your eyeballs.....


Or he is getting food using tools.
Or fighting his own reflection.
Or likes the noise.

We used to have a great one who annoyed a local cat, used to sit watching him then wait until a few metres separated them, cat about to strike, old squaky would fly up, over the cat land the other sit, watch and repeat. Would do it for an hour before becoming bored.
 
It's personal isn't it. I had a fly in my living room for about 2 weeks, couldn't bring myself to swat it and it literally landed on me and my monitor in exact the same place at around the same time every night. It was to linear to be a coincidence. Then all of a sudden it disappeared.
 
Are you sure that it isn't a raven?

No, I'm not. I can't get a close look either because our skylights are frosted. I'll keep an eye out when I'm outside to see if I see him flying around.


What could I feed him anyway? He must be nesting around here because he's definitely a regular.
 
Crows will sometimes drop rocks onto frozen ponds in the winter in order to catch fish. Perhaps the reflective skylights are triggering similar behaviour.
 
Crows will sometimes drop rocks onto frozen ponds in the winter in order to catch fish. Perhaps the reflective skylights are triggering similar behaviour.

This makes perfect sense, I suspect that this is exactly what's going on as he's only started doing it over the last month or so.

Think he'd enjoy tuna or sardines? Last thing I want is to make the poor fella sick but he must be hungry.
 
We have a crow who keeps coming back to our flat and drops stones on the skylights. He stands on the skylight, drops a stone on it, then picks it up and does it again, sometimes for ages. He'll often move between skylights too. Is this normal practice or have we got a nutjob bird?


one of my Friends has a Crow that keeps dropping golf balls in her back garden, best part is, there are no golf courses any where near. lol
 
Are you sure they are pebbles and not snails ?

Crows will happily drop them from a height to break them open, they will even drop them on a road and let a car crack them open :eek:
 
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