She rescued one crow. Now an entire murder won’t leave her alone – in the best possible way.
When Leah Wilson heads out for a walk on Canada’s West Coast, a swarm of glossy black crows trails her overhead.
It started with one bird in trouble. Wilson noticed dozens of crows dive-bombing a neighbor’s house. The cause was a young crow jammed in a rain gutter, on a roof too high for a normal ladder.
Then she spotted a fire truck parked a few blocks away.
Wilson, a member of the Metis people, talked the crew into bringing their ladder. They freed the bird, and she drove it to a wildlife vet herself.
“He latched on to my finger and held on, that was life-changing,” Wilson told CTV.
The crow was nursed back to health and released. Then the thank-yous started.
On a dog walk, a crow swooped down and left a present at her feet.
“I was going for a walk with my dog, [and] a crow flew down and dropped this beautiful, feathered bundle at my feet,” Wilson told Good News Network.
It was the first of many. She’s racked up more than half a dozen – twigs, balls of moss, even a tiny bird’s nest.
Crows don’t forget – they recognize human faces for years, and leaving little gifts for the people who help them is a documented quirk of the species.
She can still spot her rescue in the crowd. He’s the one wearing the leg band from the rehab center.
Now every walk comes with an escort – and, every so often, another present at her feet.
