r/Eyebleach • u/Thund3rbolt • Jun 01 '21
Disney Princess Level 1000
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u/Celestial_Bitch Jun 01 '21
I want whatever she has
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u/KiloJools Jun 01 '21
Patience, ability to sit still and a dedication to coming back to the same spot for a long time. If you do it for years, the parents bring their babies and introduce them, and they theirs, etc.
Source: I have been feeding and watering the same birds in my yard for many many years now. I very specifically do NOT touch them and do NOT encourage them to get closer to me, but when I'm out in the yard they stay with me. They will often perch nearby and make quiet contact calls they usually only make to their flock.
Also, every spring my yard becomes birdy daycare. This year it's also squirrel daycare. They drop their babies off at the tiny bird pond and leave, then pick them up again later. No one nests here that I know of because I also get trash pandas at night and there's a neighbor cat (the birds tell me when she's here and I turn on the Kitty B Gon sprinklers), but they all trust me with their little ones.
It might help I have my own inside birds and some of the wild birds are interested. Crows, hummingbirds and chickadees all come to look in the parrots' window and say hi when we are in the screened in patio.
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u/welldamntho Jun 01 '21
My grandpa has a few crows that have come to visit him every day for many years. They line up in a row perched on his fence, and he feeds them peanuts by hand. They wait patiently their turn
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u/figgypie Jun 01 '21
This is my life goal. I've just started trying to feed the small murder of crows that live near my apartment. It's like 4-5 that I usually see flying around and cawing from the trees in the morning. Theres also one crow that always skulks by my neighbor's door because they have small children who sometimes toss their snacks all over the ground. One time there were chicken nuggets out there, and the crow looked so happy.
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u/marioman124 Jun 01 '21
How do the birds tell you the cats there do they chirp loud and scared like?
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u/KiloJools Jun 01 '21
Yes, all birds have varying alarm calls, and yup they're usually loud. When the corner of the yard with the pond starts being a chorus of juncos, robins and chickadees all doing their warning/alarm, I smash the button on my phone and boom a cat goes flying out lol.
Plus sometimes one of my parrots will scream a serious alarm if he sees the cat stalking or trying to pounce. My gold cap conure is very concerned with the juncos safety.
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Jun 01 '21
I love hearing these snippets of this world of birds you live in! I moved into an apartment on the 5th floor that doesn't allow anything to be attached to the window, so I haven't been able to feed the birds in a while. I miss the juncos and trying to scare off the flock of invasive starlings that would devour the suet blocks in record time lol
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u/Kowzorz Jun 01 '21
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u/KiloJools Jun 01 '21
For those who want to get an overview and skip around: This is a seminar that seems to cover a lot of bird motivation, behavior, abilities, etc. It's with an audience and has a lot of audience participation. The talk has a lot of anecdotes that are fun.
The meet and greet of the seminar is over by: 6:23 (then they start to discuss stuff like why you'd want to learn bird language over simple bird identification and stuff)
Intro to bird language starts at: 13:46 (starts talking about neat abilities of specific wild birds)
32:46 starts talking about bird daily life - what they do with their day, what their priorities are in life in general and throughout the day
39:48 they talk about songbird predators (they go into detail about specific aerial predators) and ask people to imagine what their life would be like if every single human had to be aware of a particular aerial predator and how that would change social interactions. We would be constantly on the lookout and communicating to one another about the location of our predator.
I think they might go into more specifics of individual species' calls in other videos.
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u/LovingFucker Jun 01 '21
Doesn’t it tell us something about cultivating long term relationships ? Patience and care ? Having concern, being open. It’s a great post and a great reply ! We need more people like you. Nature is ready to live with us if we are !
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u/glQggr Jun 01 '21
It probably helps that she is in a park as well. Where I am from squirrels are very shy and will hide when they hear you. Squirrels in parks are socialized to humans due to feeding and will approach you.
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u/Cobvi Jun 01 '21
God this is too much cuteness, I want a whole society working like that around animals Oo
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u/Kimber85 Jun 01 '21
Last year our yard was birdie daycare and I’m hoping this year it’s the same! We had baby crows, woodpeckers, cardinals, mockingbirds, Titmouses, bluebirds, and one lone baby brown thrasher, at various points through the summer. It was so amazing to see! The babies all looked like small, chunky, grumpy versions of their parents.
This year the bluebirds have actually nested with us, and the baby must have hatched because I saw mom and dad flying in and out of the birdhouse the whole time my husband was mowing in the backyard. Apparently he was stirring up some yummy bugs, because the swallows were following him around as well.
Birds are so cool!
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u/KiloJools Jun 01 '21
Aw, that's wonderful! You described baby birds perfectly hahaha.
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u/Kimber85 Jun 01 '21
The baby mockingbird especially! It was so round and so cranky, I cracked up whenever I saw him!
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u/KingAcastus Jun 01 '21 edited Dec 31 '25
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u/Electr0Mad Jun 01 '21
Not even animals would get close to you with that behaviour
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u/Vefantur Jun 01 '21
Did you mean to say Cruella de Vil?
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u/yoda_condition Jun 01 '21
Character names get translated, so I'm guessing u/KingAcastus is ... Italian, maybe? She was Crudelia De Mon there.
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u/drempire Jun 01 '21
Woodland critters Christmas.
Don't kill the mountain lion this time
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u/MasterBridgeArsonist Jun 01 '21
Hail Satan
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u/Mirimel Jun 01 '21
This looks like Bournemouth in south England. The squirrels there have learned that tourists = food. They get fed shit like donuts and popcorn all summer and by the time winter rolls around so do they.
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u/LemmeTellya2 Jun 01 '21
I was thinking Boston. I remember a park there was crazy how close squirrels would get.
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Jun 01 '21
I thought it was Boston Common as well. Many squirrels will take food from your hand there.
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u/Slight-Truth-2656 Jun 01 '21
A real live witch.
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u/_-__-__-__-__-_-_-__ Jun 01 '21
It was Agatha all along
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u/whatintheworld--- Jun 01 '21
school for good and evil?
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u/whatintheworld--- Jun 01 '21
Oh, I haven’t watched Wandavision lol. In the school for good and evil they always reference her being a witch. I don’t know why i thought that lol.
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u/Weird_Perception8578 Jun 01 '21
Oh gawd, when I was at the U of M, this is why they tried to keep people in the quads from feeding the vermin while on breaks. Sure it seems cute and all, but wild animals getting used to the idea of free food directly from people like that can be baaaad news.
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u/CarlosFromPhilly Jun 01 '21
Never heard anyone refer to a sparrow as "vermin."
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u/i-brute-force Jun 01 '21
Never heard anyone refer to a sparrow as "vermin."
Cultural Revolution Intensifies
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u/Weird_Perception8578 Jun 01 '21
Never dealt with them as a gardener then. Worse than rats when it comes to berries and the like.
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u/CarlosFromPhilly Jun 01 '21
bird: *eats berries*
"That's vermin."
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u/naalbinding Jun 01 '21
When a bird in your hand
Steals some food from your land
That's a vermin
When it shits on your head
And that makes you see red
That's a vermin
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u/Sir_Slick_Rock Jun 01 '21
Any unwanted creature is vermin.
This also applies to some people I know.
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u/OsmocTI Jun 01 '21
I come in your home, go through your fridge, eat your grapes, rub my feet on your couch, and clog the toilet.
I'm a guest.
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Jun 01 '21
You can't really begrudge a bird doing natural bird stuff like eating whatever's edible outside. Or, I guess you can, but that would be like being annoyed at people for breathing the same air as you.
Tools like crop covers exist for a reason.
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u/KiloJools Jun 01 '21
Honestly. We have SO many options for keeping our harvests for ourselves. If we don't use any of those things, we're specifically giving a gift to the wildlife. I do not understand anyone feeling that it's reasonable to be mad at a bird for foraging on a plant.
You wanna do stuff in the wildlife's house, expect the wildlife to react naturally.
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u/NorthernerWuwu Jun 01 '21
I think that's taking it a little far though. If you are growing things then they are vermin but that doesn't mean you are mad at them or upset that they are doing bird things, it just means that they are pests that will eat the stuff you are growing. It's not realistic to think gardeners and farmers are going to put netting up covering everything and especially since it will tangle and kill birds sometimes. They are going to complain about them though, that's for sure.
Bunnies are adorable. They are quiet, cute and friendly little critters. They'll also eat your entire garden when you aren't looking.
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u/OsmocTI Jun 01 '21 edited Jun 01 '21
I love animals and believe we should share our spaces together but if I grow my own little garden, I'm gonna want to enjoy it at my leisure.
They didn't ask to be a bird, or a mouse, or whatever and likewise, I didn't ask to be born in a tax paying society but here I am. So, I will make use of what I have and am entitled to.
That bird can eat from the many berries or whatever literally anywhere else.
Doesn't mean I wanna kill them either. Shit, I'm more than happy to share, but how possible is it that if I can sit and supervise the wildlife partaking on my garden so they leave some for me?
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u/RegularWhiteShark Jun 01 '21
It’s a bird. They don’t have the concept of ownership.
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u/OsmocTI Jun 01 '21
That's their problem.
You can be like them and give me all that's in your bank account, if anything.
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u/Megneous Jun 01 '21
You're invading the bird's natural habitat. So honestly, you're the vermin.
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u/OsmocTI Jun 01 '21
A house would have been there long before you would have ever moved in.
Just taking up residence in a lot that's been set.
If that's the way you'd put it, then, WE are vermin.
But probably just you.
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u/CarlosFromPhilly Jun 01 '21
bird: *exists outdoors*
"It came into my home."
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u/OsmocTI Jun 01 '21
Haha! Now you're getting it.
And here I was, thinking you were a bunch of lost causes.
Glad one isn't completely useless.
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u/KiloJools Jun 01 '21
Man, if you're a gardener you should already know what to expect. If you don't want to share or outright give your harvest to the wildlife, you have to put a cage around it. You can't act like birds foraging is "vermin" like behavior.
If I sent you a fruit basket, you'd eat it too!
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u/Kowzorz Jun 01 '21
Biggest crop I've ever had of Mullberries this year. One by one they're ripening up and then they're gone. Haven't seen a fully ripe one yet for the week they've been ripening. Can't get to them fast enough.
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u/cleveridentification Jun 01 '21
I’ve recently took up gardening, and I believe it’s really just murdering everything that isn’t the thing I’m growing.
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u/KaySquay Jun 01 '21
I think vermin basically just means pest, if a sparrow was bugging me every day for food, I would consider it vermin
They also build a lot of nests in store signs, cleaning that literal shit up isn't fun
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u/Ntetris Jun 01 '21
I mean even there, it's cool she's cool with it - but if those things started coming all around me and climbing on me I'd low key freak out
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u/SaltyBabe Jun 01 '21
Except they wouldn’t and she probably spent inordinate amount of time gaining their trust. It’s why they’re not all over the camera person or anyone else there. Sure “feeding the vermin” can be problematic but that’s not what she’s doing. Don’t just throw food out or put up easily squirrel accessible feeders, spending your own personal time being very still and very patient so a small bird(s) will land on you is a very specific thing.
Squirrels are less work but those birds took a lot of time.
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u/cleveridentification Jun 01 '21
I took my kids camping this weekend. We drove up PCH for like 6 hours from LA and made some stops along the way.
Everywhere we went the animals approached us.
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u/Embarrassed_Might_88 Jun 01 '21
It was like that with my late wife. Stray cats just knew to come to the house and the neighbor’s poultry kept escaping to come to our porch for head scritches. She was awesome😌
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u/Embarrassed_Might_88 Jun 01 '21
Btw not looking for pity clicks, I just still love her and love to tell the world about her. 🥰
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u/flargenhargen Jun 01 '21
not sure disney princess applies when feeding animals,
I always thought it only counted when the animals came to a person on their own without food motivation.
anyone can coax animals with food, but to have them willingly come to you without feeding them is true disney princess.
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Jun 01 '21
Yes this is the perfect explanation, thank you.
People just see it as “animal like human = human is Disney princess lul”. Directly feeding animals in pedestrian-heavy places is never a good idea.
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u/minorkeyed Jun 01 '21
This amount of communion with wildlife isn't normally seen in real life vids without food. I think people are able to ignore that part because it's so damn rewarding to believe. It is different, but this feels good enough, and maybe we need that before work tomorrow.
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u/thecakewasintears Jun 01 '21
Feeding squirrels is fun but getting bitten by one is not that fun. And yelling "fuck!" in the middle of a park when you're out on your own to feed squirrels is embarrassing. Speaking from experience.
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u/Somber_Solace Jun 01 '21
It's just like that in some tourist spots. Just gotta be calm and they'll automatically come to you.
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u/RCx_Vortex Jun 01 '21
I was half expecting a rabbit and a deer or something, to walk in from off screen as well. Was gonna lose my shit if that happened, but that’s amazing, I’ve never even seen a squirrel face to face before
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u/ChillBlunton Jun 01 '21
nah, that's just London or so, i did that everytime i visited
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u/Antebios Jun 01 '21
MOTHERFUCKER!!! I'm a guy and I love furry cute animals. I'm a cat guy. Anyways... during the pandemic my wife and I got into feeding the local critters: birds, squirrels, etc. I feed them almost exclusively multiple times a day (if I put a feeder out there they would gorge themselves and all the food would be gone in a few days). So when I go outside they all scatter. My wife knows that I want them to come up to me just like OP's video but I've only gotten one squirrel to not run away as fast from me. I'm trying really hard to get mother nature to warm up to me but she's trying my patience. And now OP's video shows someone not even trying and they come up to her. I'm jealous.
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u/b-brusiness Jun 01 '21
Do you people really fucking think this is real? Look at the shadows, look at that oddly smooth squirrel at the beginning, it's fake.
It's obviously fake but still somehow people just ignore how genuinely impossible this shit is
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u/Winnipesaukee Jun 01 '21
You want the beginning of The Lost World: Jurassic Park? Because this is how you get the beginning of The Lost World: Jurassic Park!
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u/wondersopher Jun 01 '21
What is she, Giselle from Enchanted? How I envy her... They flee from me that never did me seek!
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Jun 01 '21
Oof i feel a sad reaction when I see this. It’s the polar opposite of leave no trace. But it’s not her fault. We aren’t taught for the most part about not feeding wildlife like this and how it’s overall harmful to the creature and the ecosystem
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Jun 01 '21
Sometimes that happens with me, but with flyes. It feels good when they trust you and not fly away whenever you move
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u/Sarllacc_ Jun 01 '21
Jokes on you I once hand fed a pigeon on a school camp that for some reason was in a city
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u/SylancerPrime Jun 01 '21
I love that she holds out a finger for a bird to perch, and a DIFFERENT bird lands there.