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I vote for the crested tit. He looks like a little Indian chief. 8)
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http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
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a tie between the crow and the blue jay
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Why those two?
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I vote for the Calandale.
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Mockingbird.
I have seen them chase birds of prey, which were many times larger, away from their territory. I've seen them attack cats, too. Hell, I've been attacked, harassed and told off by mockingbirds, before.
Everyone hears them "singing sweetly," imitating other birds calls, but interestingly, the mockingbird's "own" sound is a hissing growl that sounds more like a reptile than a songbird.
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the gooney bird
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Crow. Ever see them trying to eat road kill in traffic with cars racing by less than a foot away at 50mph
Swans they will attack if you have no food to give them around here
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Why those two?
because crows are wily and clever, and bluejays are badass bullies. they both make me laugh.
dawg is right about the mockingbird - it's definitely my first runner-up. tough birds.
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Either the bravest or the stupidest ... the wild turkey who crossed a busy road in my city last night.
I watched in horror from the bus stop :twitch: thinking she'd be hit, but she got safely across.
She looks like these two ladies:
Extra!! Extra!! Two Female Wild Turkeys Spotted on Grand Ave! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nBjleRtYrA#)
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Crow. Ever see them trying to eat road kill in traffic with cars racing by less than a foot away at 50mph
Crow...for that reason. I've seen them try to get the last bite in front of a Mack truck.
Hawks are pretty awesome too. :thumbup:
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Bravest or most foolish I have seen lately is the Bluejay that goes after my cat Chicken Wing which has taken to eating birds in the back yard
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Crow. Ever see them trying to eat road kill in traffic with cars racing by less than a foot away at 50mph
Crow...for that reason. I've seen them try to get the last bite in front of a Mack truck.
Hawks are pretty awesome too. :thumbup:
Hawks are so powerful! I watched one take off from a telephone pole once, and I swear I saw muscles flexing! :orly:
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Bravest or most foolish I have seen lately is the Bluejay that goes after my cat Chicken Wing which has taken to eating birds in the back yard
You called your cat Chicken Wing? :laugh:
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Bravest or most foolish I have seen lately is the Bluejay that goes after my cat Chicken Wing which has taken to eating birds in the back yard
You called your cat Chicken Wing? :laugh:
We named it Chicken Wing because when he was a kitten he held one front leg bent like a chicken wing whenever you picked him up. He was the runt of the litter and his mother died before he should have been weened we bottle fed him three weeks at first we did not think he was going to make it
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Tufted titmouse.
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Is it because the other birds make fun of their name?
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Bravest or most foolish I have seen lately is the Bluejay that goes after my cat Chicken Wing which has taken to eating birds in the back yard
You called your cat Chicken Wing? :laugh:
We named it Chicken Wing because when he was a kitten he held one front leg bent like a chicken wing whenever you picked him up. He was the runt of the litter and his mother died before he should have been weened we bottle fed him three weeks at first we did not think he was going to make it
:plus: for raising that little runt, though it seems you've created a menace!
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BRAVE little bird, going headfirst down the tree trunk! :viking:
Nuthatch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhHO9RRd5Cw#)
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The bravest bird that springs to mind now is the robin, I reckon. The little fella isn't shy and dares to come very close when I'm the garden. Um, once.. I was laying bricks (building a kitchen for a friend) and there a robin was quite interested in what I was doing. The bird just sat a meter away from me and was observing me.
Oh, mustn't forget to mention the turtle dove too. The pair that frequents my garden will try to chase off magpies and/or jackdaws quite often and succeed doing so. Kinda think, they have a sense that I will cover their backs and go brave that way. Dunno..
The blackbird (T. merula) couple here aren't afraid of me one bit either. They often come begging for food when I'm outside and come up to me (up to ½ a meter). She.. often walks around and underneath the chair when I'm sitting outside. Stupid chickens. :laugh:
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I wonder how that wild turkey is doing today. I hope she is still alive. :birdtard:
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Is it because the other birds make fun of their name?
i always support the underbird!!!
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Is it because the other birds make fun of their name?
i always support the underbird!!!
Just don't expect gratitude. :birdpoop:
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Is it because the other birds make fun of their name?
i always support the underbird!!!
Just don't expect gratitude. :birdpoop:
that is how they show gratitude!!!
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Is it because the other birds make fun of their name?
i always support the underbird!!!
Just don't expect gratitude. :birdpoop:
that is how they show gratitude!!!
I prefer :dollar: :dollar: :dollar: myself!
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The sparrows eating food from my former cat, with the cat sleeping not more than a meter away from his bowl.
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The kingfisher.
This morning I saw one on the outskirts of my little village.
Second time I saw one in my life. First I saw was about twenty years ago on the banks of the Ure.
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The cardinals that come to my bird feeder, they seem to be my cats new obsession I have found several half eaten ones under my trailer in the last couple months
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You are luring them to their doom. :police:
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Wild Turkies :flyingbat:
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You are luring them to their doom. :police:
I think of it as free range cat food :zoinks:
Wild Turkies :flyingbat:
I had one attack my car once after I stopped to wait for them to get out of the road
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Penguins are the bravest birds. :viking:
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These little beauties inspire me with their bold colors and sweet songs. :heart:
(http://www.chesapeakebay.net/images/field_guide/Northern_Cardinal_page_image.jpg)
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(http://dutchlakefarm.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/male-cardinal.jpg)
Me. I am the bravest bird. Me me meeeeeee. Also, I want suet!
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These little beauties inspire me with their bold colors and sweet songs. :heart:
(http://www.chesapeakebay.net/images/field_guide/Northern_Cardinal_page_image.jpg)
You know what I like most about cardinals, aside from the fact that I have lived in two states where they are the State Bird?
Cardinals mate for life.
I think birds that do so are all amazing and brave and awesome and beautiful!
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These little beauties inspire me with their bold colors and sweet songs. :heart:
(http://www.chesapeakebay.net/images/field_guide/Northern_Cardinal_page_image.jpg)
You know what I like most about cardinals, aside from the fact that I have lived in two states where they are the State Bird?
Cardinals mate for life.
I think birds that do so are all amazing and brave and awesome and beautiful!
I did not know that. Now I love them even more! :heart:
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I reckon Cassowaries are pretty fierce. They are from Australia and so have to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOPVVdg8noc
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I reckon Cassowaries are pretty fierce. They are from Australia and so have to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOPVVdg8noc
I love those.
I was at the local zoo once and one of them, who had the three largest feathers of its wings clipped barely short of bleeding to prevent flight, not that they really fly or whatever, jumped/flew up and landed on the seven foot high fence on its breast and stole/nicked/grabbed my kid's bag of popcorn. He then proceeded to protect all his bounty from the others in the "environmental cage" who all ran over to get some.
My son thought it was amazing and felt that he had gotten something from the zoo that many do not get to experience.
That big-assed, beautiful bird would not allow the other birds in his environment to have any of the popcorn until a certain female wandered over rather slowly, huffed at all the other birds and flipped her tail toward her benefactor.
I do not think the "thief" ever ate any of his bounty; he did it all for her. He protected her food while she ate and ate, then, when she was done, she turned and huffed at him and went back to the shade of her tree.
Very interesting, almost mammalian, behavior from a fairly large, kind of scary bird. Did I mention those sumbitches can fucking jump? Their wings are not much bigger than my hands, but they still use them to guide their "jump/flights."
Once I was near an emu pen, against the fence taking pics of a family of three chicks interacting when a large adult emu grabbed my camera. I had a big long lens on it and the bird could not hold on to the lens with its beak, so it grabbed the camera by the camera strap, with my neck still in the strap and tried to take off. I was on the other side of the fence and there was no way I was going to let go of my six thousand dollar camera system.
Fortunately, as I as reaching over the fence and had the bird by the throat and yelling for some assistance, one of the caretakers emerged and started bitchin' like hell at me, then realized that I had the bird in one hand and my camera strap in the other and the bird was about to drag me over the fence, since my feet were about a foot off the ground.
She just started using one of those "clicker things" and the emu just let go of everything and turned to her.
Kind of an anti-climactic ending, but I was not done fighting for my camera, when the caretaker came over and "shut the bird down" with that training clicker thingy.
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Don't mess with this badass bird! :o
(http://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5_KQB_WQAABq0W.jpg)