• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    40
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    Was on the beach in Cozumel and had a raccoon that lived in a stack of surf boards solicit me for nachos.

    He did the little 🙏 gesture and then stuck out a tiny paw. Came back half a dozen times once he realized we were suckers for this act.

    Hands down, favorite part of the trip.

  • naticus@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    22 hours ago

    I would trade the cardinal that kept flying into the sliding glass window over and over and over at the last cabin I stayed at for this duck. I had to tell at that thing repeatedly because it’d leave for 10 min and start all over again. The amount of bird shit outside on the patio was absurd.

    • 2lama@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      21 hours ago

      I’ve had to shoot 3 cardinals over the years for doing that. It’s funny until all you hear all afternoon, every afternoon, is thunk… tweet tweet… thunk… tweet tweet… It got to the point where one of the birds was leaving pieces of torn off skin on the window as a result of doing that for 3-4 hours every day.

        • 2lama@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          2 hours ago

          The other option would have been to buy that tape that you put on your windows so the birds don’t see their reflection anymore, but I was a teenager living with my parents at the time and we couldn’t afford it. We also tried blocking off the windows with cardboard, but the bird would just move to a different window.