you should leave out some treats for it; I've been leaving various treats for birds and now they visit me every morning and it's the cutest thing

Why is it cute? They only come for the food, they don't care about you. In fact they probably even think you look weird

Well a treat for an owl would be a mouse or something and it would be kind of weird to put dead mice on the porch

If you feed crows often enough they will bring you shiny things they found as thanks

 

Usually it's just broken shards of glass or something similar, but hey it's the thought that counts. To them it might as well be a diamond

Wouldn't it be cool if they brought you a disembodied eyeball?

That would be a unusual situation but I suppose I would appreciate the gesture

Crows are not normal birbs though, they are smarter than the average imageboard poster

From the window of my former workplace I could see down onto a flat roof that was regularly visited by a couple of magpies and a crow.

I bought nuts and threw a handful of them daily onto the roof to watch them eat. It was very obvious that they didn't trust me at all.

If you made it obvious that you were watching them they wouldn't go get the nuts closest to the window. The was still several meters, a closed window, and another building away so there would have been no possibility for me to catch them.

I always had to act like I was not watching the roof until they tried to get the nuts. Also it got a little better even after a year of doing this they still did not trust me at all.

 

Also crows are like raccoons in the way that they like to wash their food. Sometimes there was a puddle on the roof after it rained and the crow came there regularly with something to eat to wash it in there beforehand.

A lot of different birds are tbh

because birds are beautiful and they jump around on their tiny legs and chirp and fight each other mid-air and looking at them makes me happy

 

don't put a dead mouse on your porch, silly, put a live one so your owl fren can do some hunting life a fearsome little bird it is

virgin owl vs chad crow

rooks that come often to my lawn learned how to play catch; I throw them partially cracked walnuts and when they see me raise my hand they run ahead like dogs

One of my favorites are these cute little fat bastards called juncos. They come to the yard in large groups and hop around chirping at each other while eating the seeds I left for them

we don't have those in Europe, but it's so cute and chubby :3

You have to be careful with feeding birds nuts though, smaller ones can easily choke on them

I only throw big ones when rooks come by, for other birds I break them up into smaller pieces (and right now I have 3 blue tits jumping around on my window sill)

He is doing it again! I didn't hear him for almost a week but he is hooting outside at this very moment. I was worried

Hoot hoot!

you need to give him a gift

No, humans shouldn't interact with wild animals.

watch it, that's OP's friend you're talking about!

If he's truly his friend, he will leave him in peace.

you're a thief of joy

I am a part of God, just like you, like OP, like the owl...

I need an update

OP, has the owl eaten you?

Owls are mostly legs. Also their eyeballs got so big they can't move them anymore, hence the creepy head tracking.

 

t. youtube science

Hootophobia has to stop

Nothing to report, I haven't heard him since I posted

 

He probably covers a large territory though. he will probably be back at some point

I hope you'll be better prepared for his next visit and have some mice on hand

 

one of the rooks I've been throwing walnuts to flew to my windowsill today and left a stick and a piece of dirty fabric, not sure why, but I'm going to pretend it's a gift and we're friends now

My parents receive random gifts like that from the crows they feed as well, usually it's just a piece of shiny piece of plastic waste, but occasionally they bring bottle caps or some sort of clothing scrap like you mentioned. My dad jokes that one day they will eventually bring him a valuable piece of jewelry.

 

As for my owl fren, I recently looked up why owls hoot, and it's usually to either defend their territory and/or attract mates. So I like to think when I don't hear him hooting it's because he feels safe and has access to plenty of owl pussy so he feels no need to hoot but rather hunt silently like the fearsome predator he is.

Actually nvm he must have seen my post because guess who I just heard hooting this, morning! Never heard him in daytime before

Do owls poop and pee from the same hole? Do they have benises?! I don't trust like that

I think all birds do that. Eggs come out of the same hole as well but there's some mechanism that helps prevent getting shit on them.

 

I've eaten chicken anuses in Taiwan before, quite tasty.

yep, it's called a cloaca and birds use it to piss, shit and fuck or I guess it's more of a cloaca-kiss than actual fucking

I don't think there's much of a mechanism, I get eggs from farmer and sometimes they're shitted ons

 

anatids (ducks &c.) and ratites (ostrich &c.) have benis, other pirds, its don't

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