PaintedPony
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Hi all...I'm a newbie.
Is it normal for these young birds to be so friendly with humans? Mine (who is just called butcherbird because I don't know what sex it is) has been coming for food for 2 weeks. It started with him hanging upside down from the gutter looking at me, then the next day it landed on a chair only 3' away. Now he pops in regularly...and sometimes he's not hungry...he just wants to sing, talk, sing, talk and talk and talk till my eyes are glazing over. |8.|
Yesterday I heard my 94 year old mum, who was sitting in the lounge room, say "Hello butcherbird." I went to the room and there was the bird on a dining room chair, calm as anything. I spoke to him then went to close the doors to the other rooms. He went outside and waited in his usual spot for food.
Mum later said..."This isn't the first time he's been in!!!!" :eek!:
Seems a bit bizarre, but mum said that when she was a girl they had a friendly butcherbird too.
Is it normal for these young birds to be so friendly with humans? Mine (who is just called butcherbird because I don't know what sex it is) has been coming for food for 2 weeks. It started with him hanging upside down from the gutter looking at me, then the next day it landed on a chair only 3' away. Now he pops in regularly...and sometimes he's not hungry...he just wants to sing, talk, sing, talk and talk and talk till my eyes are glazing over. |8.|
Yesterday I heard my 94 year old mum, who was sitting in the lounge room, say "Hello butcherbird." I went to the room and there was the bird on a dining room chair, calm as anything. I spoke to him then went to close the doors to the other rooms. He went outside and waited in his usual spot for food.
Mum later said..."This isn't the first time he's been in!!!!" :eek!:
Seems a bit bizarre, but mum said that when she was a girl they had a friendly butcherbird too.