How about that. Magpies sent by God to save her life.
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Love magpies! Saw a bunch on my hike yesterday, probably dining on all the noisy grasshoppers.
My dad trained a blue jay to sit on his hand in exchange for a peanut, and he would do it for me as well. I wouldn’t let go of the peanut at first, and he would peck at my thumb until I let go. Then he would bury it in the parkway grass… and I would retrieve it! And feed it to him again.
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Nice break from the news.
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Amazing story!
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Where’s Heckel and Jeckel when you need them? This Australian lady has all the potential to turn into a crazy magpie lady. I don’t think that she has any cats. I like magpies at a distance, I prefer to see crows or ravens. Is she like a female Elijah who gets the magpies to feed her like Elijah did with ravens sent by God.
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@Left Coast Dan: We hike everyday, our first stop I put peanuts out for the wildlife. They’re waiting every morning for us to show up. Cleaning the gutter out is fun – lots of hidden peanuts in them. Magpies are a member of the crow family – the same as the Jays. Very intelligent birds.
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She’s lucky to have them to keep her sane. Much better (and more intelligent) company then most people.
1 of the smartest birds in the world.
I think our common crow is related to them.
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Good for her but absolutely F “the dodo”, they love love love BLM
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When I was on disability for a broken femur, I would sit out in the backyard and feed peanuts to a extended family of blue jays that nested in a nearby tree. After a while they would walk right up to me. One of them would sit on a telephone wire, and I would throw a peanut in the air and it would swoop down to catch it. They kept returning every year until the tree that they nested in came down in a wind storm.
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“This is Jim Crow on steroids!”
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Cool birds, but I can’t stand the uptick at the end of every sentence when Australians talk.
How about that. Magpies sent by God to save her life.
Love magpies! Saw a bunch on my hike yesterday, probably dining on all the noisy grasshoppers.
My dad trained a blue jay to sit on his hand in exchange for a peanut, and he would do it for me as well. I wouldn’t let go of the peanut at first, and he would peck at my thumb until I let go. Then he would bury it in the parkway grass… and I would retrieve it! And feed it to him again.
Nice break from the news.
Amazing story!
Where’s Heckel and Jeckel when you need them? This Australian lady has all the potential to turn into a crazy magpie lady. I don’t think that she has any cats. I like magpies at a distance, I prefer to see crows or ravens. Is she like a female Elijah who gets the magpies to feed her like Elijah did with ravens sent by God.
@Left Coast Dan: We hike everyday, our first stop I put peanuts out for the wildlife. They’re waiting every morning for us to show up. Cleaning the gutter out is fun – lots of hidden peanuts in them. Magpies are a member of the crow family – the same as the Jays. Very intelligent birds.
She’s lucky to have them to keep her sane. Much better (and more intelligent) company then most people.
I’m with her, I don’t like people either…
Heckle and Jeckle
https://youtu.be/MI6DdX_zMc4
1 of the smartest birds in the world.
I think our common crow is related to them.
Good for her but absolutely F “the dodo”, they love love love BLM
When I was on disability for a broken femur, I would sit out in the backyard and feed peanuts to a extended family of blue jays that nested in a nearby tree. After a while they would walk right up to me. One of them would sit on a telephone wire, and I would throw a peanut in the air and it would swoop down to catch it. They kept returning every year until the tree that they nested in came down in a wind storm.
“This is Jim Crow on steroids!”
Cool birds, but I can’t stand the uptick at the end of every sentence when Australians talk.