Why is the cockatiel singing to the dog while the dog eats? Does anybody recognize the tune?
Our family dog used to pretend to be asleep so that birds would come down to nibble at his dog food. He would then catch them and eat them.
Domestication certainly changes things!
Look at this! You can get an excited baby chick to fall asleep by gently rubbing its belly. You wouldn’t believe how many different kinds of lizards I’ve tried this on, and it worked on all of them. Would it work on an adult chicken? Betcha it would.
Our cats, Robbie and Peep, like having their bellies rubbed, but it doesn’t put them to sleep. It would if they were lizards. But then they wouldn’t be nice and furry.
I couldn’t resist this–a hummingbird, sound asleep… and snoring. Who knew birds could snore?
Our cats snore sometimes. And make other little noises in their sleep. But you expect that from cats and dogs. If you watch them sleeping, you can even guess what they’re dreaming about.
Betcha anything birds dream!
You’ve got this little box in which you like to keep your change. Lots of it, nickels, dimes, quarters. You’ve also got a parakeet.
We have many videos of cats pushing things off shelves for no describable reason. Maybe this parakeet thinks he’s a cat. His idea is to toss the coins out of the box.
Easy come, easy go…
I couldn’t resist this–a parrot singing You Are My Sunshine. My father used to sing this to me when I was a toddler having a bad night: pick me up, rock me, and sing this song. Never mind that he had to punch in at the Ford plant at 6:00 in the morning. His children always came first.
Better even than Gene Autry, Dad. And certainly better than this parrot, who is not to be blamed for his musical difficulties.
How many of you read that headline as “musical cocktail”? But no, it’s a musical bird–who’s learned to whistle the theme music from the classic Mickey Mouse cartoon, “Steamboat Willie.”
I offer this as a little oasis of sanity in a desert of nooze.
This doesn’t happen often, but it does happen occasionally–an eagle attempts to snatch a human child. Happily for the baby and his parents, he’s just a little too heavy for the eagle to bring back to its nest. That’s how these rare incidents usually turn out.
There’s some feeling out there that this video is a fake. But it’s a fact that large eagles sometimes attempt to prey on small children… So don’t leave your baby just sitting there if eagles are around.
Oh, what a Roman augur would have made of this incident!
What can you say? Baby birds are cute! I love the way this baby tern waddles excitedly back and forth, eagerly awaiting dinner; and his parents bring him a nice fresh baitfish–a sand eel–and try to teach him how to eat it. Without hands, teeth, knife, or fork. Try it sometime.
As someone who’s seen neighborhood cats catch and eat all kinds of birds, including pigeons, I have to wonder about the dove in this video. Does he have a death wish? How does he know this cat–who only wants to take a nap–won’t eat him? Even when he finally pushes the cat too far, the cat lets him go unharmed.
I think the Lord is trying to tell us something.
Here’s something a little different, you won’t see it every day. The high school’s door is open, so a mother duck leads her ducklings into the building.
Is she taking them on a tour? Is it a short-cut to the pond? We never had ducks and ducklings in my high school. But they we never had any of those weird-looking steel chairs, either–those things that look like props for a movie about mad scientists. Maybe the ducks are looking for the movie.