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LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 day agoThat’s really cool, you have your own little army of familiars following you around. Sounds like you need to be careful with the possible feeding bans. Hopefully you don’t catch any trouble.
All I’ve heard about magpies is they’re assholes though!
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well I’d say few friends then whole lot of trolls. Some other birds have begun taking notice, but I’m not going to feed the seagulls. (Although they’re not as dumb as they look and can live several decades.)
Basically there was a nesting pair or crows on top of a building I lived next to, and I lived on the sixth floor. So I began to mimic their head movements, to line myself with the position of their beak. Mirroring, you know.
Then it took a while and I got them to come get some opportunistic foods from the windowsill and now they just remember me. They had a nestling at one point, definitely. There were three, imo.
Magpies there’s loads can’t keep track. One fat one though, he was a proper fatty boom batty one spring when I’d been leaving out basically whole bags of meatballs, like 400g a bit shy of a pound. I was sort of proud, he/she looked pretty healthy, despite the harsh winter.
I have the images in my old phone I see if I’ll care enough to post some.
Idk if magpies are assholes, per se. Definitely eager, I would say. The crows are always having trouble with them. I have trouble not imagining it as WWII bombers (the crows) getting harassed by multiple smaller bogies (the magpies).