I was in the kitchen l which is at the front of the house, looking out of the window and saw a magpie hopping around with something in his mouth, something big and flat and white. Moments later a crow appeared and bullied the magpie into dropping his treasure. The crow picked it up and hopped around, looking about him, then he put the thing on the lawn, pulled some dry grass over it, and poked it down into the ground. He then flew off and sat on our neighbour’s roof with a friend.
Sometime later my husband went out to post a letter, and on his return he had a look at what the crow had hidden, and it was a big piece of pitta bread! I wonder if he is waiting for a falafel to go into it? I couldn’t help but think how clever he was, and I didn’t mind him bullying the magpie – they are such pests and so mean to other birds! I wrote about an incident with a crow, a magpie and some small birds here:
http://loiselden.com/2012/11/10/corvids/
By the way, I know my feature picture is a jackdaw, I couldn’t find a crow picture!
Lois Elsden 
It”s been proven that crows can count up to four but that”s it. I”ll tell you the story sometime. Our native Indians revere the crow and I don”t blame them. We have a Crabapple tree in our front yard and last spring about ten birds landed on one of the branches that still had some apples on it from the previous year. They all couldn”t reach them but the one who could picked them off and they all handed them down the line to one another so that they all got to share. They were Cedar Waxwings and it was amazing how caring and generous they were.No I hadn”t been drinking either.
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What a fabulous story… There was an article in the paper today about goats being clever, and able to learn complicated things to get food, and then remember how to do it a year alter… But I think your bird story, and mine about the crow scaring the magpie away from the little birds, shows that birds have an extra dimension to their intelligence – yes, caring and generous!
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