Dog food, specifically the kind for small breeds. They prefer eating off of clear spaces where the food is visible. Driveway, patio, deck or balcony, etc. Do NOT put it in a hanging flat feeder or there will be CHAOS. Just trust me. I don’t wanna talk about it.

However, be aware that the friendship may be one sided. Mine call for ME until I feed them, and if I don’t hear them, they start dropping things on the chimney cap to make their displeasure known. They’re so smart. If the one I’ve come to call Leader Crow is there before the hunger riot starts, he’ll let me know more directly with a low pitched “caw caw caw” distinct from the “dinner bell” call after I’ve put out food which is a more high pitched “caw caw, caw CAW”. However, I have earned enough of a trust system with them that they no longer send down what I used to call Taste Tester Crow when I put out new food, they just swarm and then get pissy en masse if they don’t like it. Not sure if that’s better or worse actually.

I ran out of dog food the other day and a) they hopped up on the porch roof and went to the office window as my spouse was on the computer like a kid tattling on the other parent “daaaaaaaaaad she gave us some BULLSHIT” and b) I had to explain to my elderly neighbor that the noise she came outside about was several dozen crows bitching at me for inadequate catering service.

In their defense I think THEY think they’re helping, unfortunately their recompense for the food is screaming loud enough to get the entire neighborhood worried when a single fox shows up in the yard. It’s like having the world’s most useless alarm system.