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 consumed, trinkets showed up on the tray: an earring, bolts and screws, hinges, buttons, a tiny white plastic tube, a rotting crab claw, a small scrap of metal printed with the word “best,” and Gabi’s favorite, an opalescent white heart.
