The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #164095   Message #4148708
Posted By: Senoufou
30-Jul-22 - 01:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: Mad Swans, blue tits, and others
Subject: RE: BS: Mad Swans, blue tits, and others
While sitting on The Bench in my front garden, I'm always delighted to have numerous seagulls descend, to eat up the moist bread which I put out every morning, along with sultanas, dried meal worms and wild bird seeds. These seagulls are so enormous and beautiful, and they have no fear of me - they waddle almost up to my feet to get at the food.
(They leave a 'thank you present' down my windows, but it's easily removed with a moist paper towel!)
Even more interesting is that many species of birds (crows, jackdaws, starlings, sparrows) hop happily around together to eat, with no fighting, or flying away in fear from each other. I even saw a female blackbird pop a sultana down the gaping beak of a baby starling. Wasn't that kind of her?