TBF the Tufted Titmouse is an adorable borb!

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.

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!

Birds at my feeder are the opposite. The millisecond it runs out of seed the yard turns into 28 Days Later.

Hummingbirds will poke at the window for you to refill it. Cute goes a long way.

Birbs be smart. They know what's up, they just play it cool. Don't want to give away the game.

Domesticated cats meow, a primarily kitten behavior, to communicate with humans. Dogs display behaviors common to wolf pups because domestication has throttled some developmental traits from their wild ancestry.

Interesting that wild birds are starting to figure out their own tricks to manipulate humans.

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.

Birds know who refills the feeder. Who is friend and who is foe.

Never had a bird beg, but they do seem attracted by the sounds of filling the feeder.

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:

So they left a seed block for long enough for it to get moldy, before realizing that it might need a change? Fuck me.

In short, yes. They're way smarter then you give them credit for.

From my observations they hate being watched as much as you do. If you look ostensibly at one for too long they'll fly away.

And don't think birds don't see you. They have way better distance sight with multiple macula (high resolution spots on retina). If he looks straight at you, at ~45 angle or at 90 degree angle, it's very likely he looks at you specifically.

The age old question: who watched who first the birb or the hooman?

Is “Came Up” capitalised as in “coming up on E”?

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