But in recent years, tales have rolled in from all over the country of crows offering up gifts of jewelry, hardware, shards of glass, a Santa figurine, a foam dart from a toy gun, a Donald Duck Pez dispenser, even a candy heart with “love” printed on it, delivered just after Valentine’s Day. In 2015, a story surfaced in Seattle of an eight-year-old girl, Gabi Mann, who started feeding crows on her way to and from the bus stop when she was only four. Later she began offering the crows peanuts on a tray in her yard as part of a daily ritual, and from time to time, after the peanuts had been
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