Would anyone like to see pictures of this bird I’m friends with
I love her
i am loving people’s attempts to identify this bird its just an australian magpie, she’s not a chimera, she’s not a fucked up crow, etc. she is just….. a regular run of the mill magpie
She is also a mother…. here is her yelling son who she brought to me one time
HOW THE HELL DID YOU BEFRIEND AN AUSTRALIAN MAGPIE
i give her chips sometimes
From what I’ve heard, australian magpies are actually quite nice if they trust you not to hurt them. Swooping season happens because, as a species, they’ve learned that most humans are Dangerous and so they preemptively attack to protect themselves and their young. If you’ve been nice to a group of magpies, though, they’ll remember you and you won’t be swooped at.
One of these days I really need to upload the video of the magpie warbling outside our front door because it trained my mother-in-law to feed it.
Yeah, we have a small family (2 adults who are still wary, 1 new baby who just follows its parents but is starting to realise it can get food from us, and the one who warbles for food) who regularly visits each day. And the one Ember mentions, routinely appears at 7am and 12pm, and will warble for 5 minute straight, expecting my mother or I to feed them (and we do, coz its adorable as fuck).
I like how in olden times dudes used to paint past historical events with the clothing and surroundings of the painter’s current day, like some medieval monk painting Jesus and friends in a tunic and hose. I think we should bring that back. I want to see Caesar crossing the Rubicon in crocs.
Iron in the Sand 