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TBF the Tufted Titmouse is an adorable borb!
Tintin the bird
Can certainly also see why it got named that… 🙃
Oh my gosh, this is so validating! A few different species of birds will flutter in front of the living room window when the feeders are empty to get my attention. They are smart little things!
Birds at my feeder are the opposite. The millisecond it runs out of seed the yard turns into 28 Days Later.
Zombies invade the yard?
Hummingbirds will poke at the window for you to refill it. Cute goes a long way.
It has been nice weather this weekend. I learned that my chickens will just come walking into the livingroom if I leave the door open. Very cute, but they shit everywhere.
My mom had a rooster that hated me. He wasn’t super mean but would attack after warning me if I didn’t leave quick enough.
I solved the problem by saying repeating “I’m going to pick you up” and catching him anytime he started getting aggressive. I’d wrap him up in a towel, take him inside, and we’d watch “How it’s Made” while I pet his head and talked to him. He calmly but unhappily accepted the situation.
After a few days of that he mostly left me alone. If he started puffing up I’d tell him “I’m going to pick you up”: he’d instantly deflate and run away making unhappy noises.
Nice! You’re like the Cesar Milan of poultry. The “cock whisperer”.
You’ll have to get them their own TV and Barcalounger
Birbs be smart. They know what’s up, they just play it cool. Don’t want to give away the game.
So long and thanks for all the
fishbirdseed
Birds know who refills the feeder. Who is friend and who is foe.
In short, yes. They’re way smarter then you give them credit for.
From my observations they hate being watched as much as you do. If you look ostensibly at one for too long they’ll fly away.
And don’t think birds don’t see you. They have way better distance sight with multiple macula (high resolution spots on retina). If he looks straight at you, at ~45 angle or at 90 degree angle, it’s very likely he looks at you specifically.
So they left a seed block for long enough for it to get moldy, before realizing that it might need a change? Fuck me.
Ugh, this was the case when I worked at a nursing home. There were bird feeders placed in spots near windows, so the residents could watch the birds. The residents noticed no birds ever showed up, and when I learned that, I went out to the feeders to inspect them. Mold, mold everywhere.
I took them in, cleaned them out, sanitized them, and refilled them… but I think the birds in the area were too smart to bother with those feeders anymore. It was obvious they were neglected all the time, and I imagine the birds were well aware that the feeders weren’t worth the trouble.
Sorry birds, sorry residents. I tried.
Some of us paid good money to be bullied by titmice.
They didn’t even have tufts when I was a lad.
It was an hour walk to the nearest dungeon, and we were thankful for it.
Back then the Cat O’ 9 Tails only had seven because the Kaiser took two of em’ when… :zzzzzzzzzzz:
The age old question: who watched who first the birb or the hooman?
#justoregonthings
