Captain Log posted:

I will get footage of her flying. It's a thing to behold.

Also, you're far too kind. I'm always thrown off hearing my voice, because I completely unintentionally have drastically different speaking voices that I don't control. Being raised by a family that divorced in '89, with one side being southern as gently caress and the other being all British immigrants, means my accent is a pretty amorphous thing.

GotLag posted:

Sorry I don't have any pictures, but something odd happened on today's visit to the magpies.

Every day I visit Mrs Clogs' family, and when she finds me I crouch down and she walks up and takes her meatball from my outstretched hand. She then turns away slightly and and starts eating it without moving away, and after a while turns back to wait for me to offer her another (she carries off the half-eaten remnants to eat later or feed to her children).

Today she ate most of her first, took an offered second, and then she declined a third meatball and just kind of fluffed herself up a bit more and retracted her head and just sat there, occasionally looking at me but mostly apprently relaxing.

This is only the second time a magpie has decided to sit next to me and just hang out, and the first time an adult has done it.

I'm honoured and flattered that she trusts me enough to relax within arm's reach

Pookah posted:

I currently visualize her in flight as though she opens her wings, then floats jerkily across the room like a poorly animated balloon.

My only accent-related story is from when I was on holiday in Prague. I was in a jewelers and was talking to the assistant, who had very good English, and also to my mother.
After the transaction was done, the assistant asked us what language we had been speaking to each other, was it maybe Norwegian?
I had to explain that it had been English the whole time, but Irish people tend to speak very very quickly and basically have to slow it all down to talk to non-native speakers.

theHUNGERian posted:

https://i.imgur.com/InaV5VS.mp4

quote:

Nests recovered from trees in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Antwerp in Belgium were found to be constructed almost entirely from strips of long metal spikes that are often attached to buildings to deter birds from setting up home on the structures.

The discovery prompted researchers at the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam and the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden to scour the internet for further examples, leading to the identification of two more anti-bird spike nests: one in Enschede in the Netherlands and another in Glasgow.

“I really thought I’d seen it all,” said Kees Moeliker, the director of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam, who studied the crow’s nest found during tree maintenance near the city’s main railway station. “I didn’t expect this. These anti-bird spikes are meant to deter birds, they are supposed to scare them off, but on the contrary, the birds just utilise them.”

Captain Log posted:

Serra is awful at Nest Building while being very Fake Angry about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt4HcGINTBE

Pookah posted:

Has anyone ever been actually bitten by a cockatiel?
My own experience is both very old and was only shortlived, but my lovely Looloo never did anything more painful than an angry beak bop. Even when she was furious, she would never hurt anyone.
She was a little saint

Edit: all the lost pets are buried in the garden, and because my Da is a sculptor, they have a headstone with all their names on it.

GotLag posted:

Sorry I don't have any pictures, but something odd happened on today's visit to the magpies.

Every day I visit Mrs Clogs' family, and when she finds me I crouch down and she walks up and takes her meatball from my outstretched hand. She then turns away slightly and and starts eating it without moving away, and after a while turns back to wait for me to offer her another (she carries off the half-eaten remnants to eat later or feed to her children).

Today she ate most of her first, took an offered second, and then she declined a third meatball and just kind of fluffed herself up a bit more and retracted her head and just sat there, occasionally looking at me but mostly apprently relaxing.

This is only the second time a magpie has decided to sit next to me and just hang out, and the first time an adult has done it.

I'm honoured and flattered that she trusts me enough to relax within arm's reach

Plant MONSTER. posted:

Plant MONSTER. posted:

bee posted:

Feeling chill on a Sunday arvo



Then he heard a magpie lark outside

Unsinkabear posted:

Welcome back LAB and congrats and your new family member from the Universal Cat Bird Distribution System. He is perfect and I love him.

The universe recently distributed me an otherwise wonderful cat who is disturbingly efficient at bird murder (on the street for at least a year with no weight loss or food anxiety, hunts feathered toys exclusively, and JUMPS... needless to say she is never going back outside in any capacity). So my dreams of bringing in a parrotlet or pigeon are wholly dashed for the foreseeable future, and I will be depending on this thread for my birbfren fix more than ever.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

He made Art in his water dish today after I gave him some wicker balls the parrots didn't like. He turned the whole thing bright green and he is proud of this, I know this because every time I approach he makes eye contact and then points his head at it and puffs up his happy face and quivers and flicks his wings in the ways that mean "I'm proud of this."

nielsm posted:

I'm afraid I have accidentally taught one of my 'tiels the opposite. It's not uncommon for him to fly over, perch on my finger, take a dump on my shirt, then fly off again.

nielsm posted:

I'm afraid I have accidentally taught one of my 'tiels the opposite. It's not uncommon for him to fly over, perch on my finger, take a dump on my shirt, then fly off again.