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>>312045 I sort of raised a fledgeling once... It failed to fly and was sitting in our yard for 2 days, with no parents or anything coming after it, so we "took it in" and fed it nightcrawlers and various leftovers.
He usually never let us come near, let alone touch him, but he didn't make any attempt to leave, and would often take food from our hands and eat right in front of us.
Eventually he started to get the hang of flying, but instead of leaving like we thought he would, he just hung around on our roof and fence, and followed behind us cawing in a high pitched voice while fluffing his wings about like a moron. This went on for a good while and eventually we stopped feeding him. We saw considerable less and less of him, but he'd always roost on our roof or a nearby conifer in our yard.
Anyways, fast forward 3 years later, and to this day, every few weeks or month or so he STILL comes back and caws at us from our fence or roof. He usually stays a day, then flies off somewhere around dusk, never to be seen for a few more weeks/months.
Best half-pet ever.
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