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Used to care for a bunch of hens. The leader hen was wicked smart.
One day, she was mad as hell. She was charging at me, screaming her head off, stopping right in front of my feet and then looking at me sideways. She started slowly walking away, and then turned around to charge at me again. She repeated this about ten times and I was bewildered.
Finally, a kid told me “I think she wants you to follow her.” So I did. She lead me to a neighbor’s house, someone who had just moved in. Finally it clicked for me. I’m like, “excuse me miss, I think my hen is filing a complaint that a new cat has moved to the neighborhood. Is your cat going to be a problem for the hens?” She answered no. So I turn to the hen and I’m like “she says it’s fine.” Hen keeps looking at me sideways for a minute and then walks back to her group.
Almond-sized dinosaur brain by the way.
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:
Is “Came Up” capitalised as in “coming up on E”?
Birds know who refills the feeder. Who is friend and who is foe.
I had woodpeckers bang on my siding next to the window to let me know the suet was bad for about 10 years.
It was steel siding at the time, and they left several nice dents.
As much as I’d love to keep feeding them, I had my siding replaced by insurance with vinyl (unrelated issue) and don’t really want holes all up it… so i weaned before it was replaced. Just attending their demands less frequently.
Hasn’t been an issue in the last year.
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
Never had a bird beg, but they do seem attracted by the sounds of filling the feeder.
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!
TBF the Tufted Titmouse is an adorable borb!
Adorable tit
Tintin the bird
Can certainly also see why it got named that… 🙃
The age old question: who watched who first the birb or the hooman?
yes!
Birds at my feeder are the opposite. The millisecond it runs out of seed the yard turns into 28 Days Later.
This tufted titmouse was the winner
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.
You’ll have to get them their own TV and Barcalounger
Hmm… my chickens are very spoiled but they aren’t “have their own tv” spoiled… yet…
Im not sure how much good a tv does with birds though, they see at over 120hz, to our 60hz so most of what we see as motion on tv they see as a series of still images
To be fair, movies are 24fps!
So movies might be too low framerate for a chicken, but 60+ fps game footage’d probably be alright.
Ima have to try and see how they react.
But chickens process 120-200 fps so I don’t think that’d do the job to show them motion. (Which makes sense, they fly and have to dodge stuff in flight at high speeds)
I may have been mistaken about what hz refers to…? Not sure. Don’t… think so…? I know its refresh rate, i just don’t know how thats different.
Also fwiw some movies seem jittery to me… so maybe we need more than 24 as a normal allotment. :)
Oh yeah, hz and fps are the same thing here! I mostly said 24fps because you can display a 24fps movie on a higher refresh rate display and it’ll still be 24fps (hz is more usual when talking about what the display itself does, fps for the content it’s showing).
And yeah, I’m more targeting “minimum to look like motion” than I am “perfectly smooth looks”, heh. :3
Super fair and was mostly and idk situation o just know what we see as motion they typically don’t and so was a bit confused.
All good think we are on the same page :)
