I enjoy the local murder of crows...

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The young ones have blue eyes.When the older ones teach the babies to caw it’s comical because they make some weird sounds.Then an older one will caw back several times and it’s sounds lie they are correcting the baby.Caw school.

Yes. The title is misleading to some folks who might think "OMG! Humans are murdering crows in her neighborhood...and she ENJOYS it!".

But thats the supposed proper word for a group of crows. A "murder". Like a herd of cows, and pod of orcas, and the more arcane terms like a "clowder of cats", and an "exaltation of larks".

I have a gaggle.

I once watched a carrion crow teach one of its kids how to rip apart a dead blackbird. It's a messy job, but someone's gotta do it.

I've also seen a flock of magpies teasing a stoat (a predator midway in size between a weasel and a ferret). They'd settle on the top of a mound, wait for the stoat to come charging out at them, fly up at the last second, then land the instant it left, over and over again.

I'm very fond of jackdaws, a small crow with a charcoal-grey head. They're kind of manic, go around in big flocks, and make a noise like two marbles clicking together. And as a kid, I lived near some huge old trees where the local parliament of rooks lived. I remember summer evenings where you'd just see a long, ragged flock of rooks cawing as they flew past for what seemed like hours. The species of jay we have round here is very shy of humans- I've only seen a jay once.