Funny!!!

[mash]

Well, going up to clean my ferrets out the other morning, I noticed a baby blackbird sitting on my tools. As we have MANY trees in our garden I didn't find this too strange. Anyway, I had to use my tools so I gently picked up the baby to move it to a nearby branch, however when I touched the bird it let out a almight screach and BOTH parents divebombed me!!!!!

I know they were only protecting their baby and everything but, jeese.

What I thought was extremely amusing though was the adults continued to follow me around the garden squacking at me until I went back in the house.

I checked on the baby a little later and found it had flown up into one of the trees and the parents were over next door trying to coax it to fly. Fortunatly they didn't see me or I'm sure they would have attacked me again lol

Just a funny story I wanted to share

[greenpen]

I told my boyfriend and he was laughing so hard that he fell off the chair! He found it hilarious that two birds attacked a human trying to save their baby!

Are you ok mash after your attack?

[mash]

Lol I'm absolutley fine thanks greenie. I just thought it was sooo funny. Bless um

[Tanitsja]

well sea birds do that all the time, it depend on the type of bird i think

you would think a small gull wouldnt be up for figting a fox, however they got wings to get away, and the high pitch squueaking, along with the poop and all may make the situation uncomfortable, and well if there is more of them around even more so as they tend to rally togheter against danger

birds also use other tricks to distract you, there are birds who will draw attention to themself as potential wounded easy prey to lure away predators, just to take to the air last minuite

its a mather of saving the youngster if they can, to pass on their genes, so all instinctal, it is also the reason why some places sertaint birds get their nests picked when they arent wanted in the sorounding, like city centers and whatnot will remove eggs from seagull nest to prevent situation to ocur where live babys do hatch and you get extremely agressive parents in areas where there is a lot of human trafficing. Done efficiently the birds take the clue and build a new nest somewhere else more out of the hot spot location

so yeah i guess living up around the coast i am used to the fact that you see a lil bird, dont go near, the sea gulls not even the worst, the terns i think it is, or maybe it was another, anyhow its another seabird (not gull) are even more agressive and noisy, and are even more likely to not just fly close to spook but if you dont shy off some of them can consider taking a peck

so yeah generaly i'd advice to stay away and not move them anyhow from too close up, want them to move then do it by making the birds aware your there, and then coatch them from some distance, tends to make them less agressive and more conserned of coatching the offspring to safety

its odd they would keep themself so close to the ferrets though as they would be natural enemies of the birds, but i guess if they caged they sort of sorted out they aint a threath

[mash]

Yeah, thanks Tanitsja

[Tanitsja]

lol we use to have em in our potatoe land and whatnot, its the same each spring when they hatch before they get old enough that they can be moved down to the sea

+ its an old tradition to eat gull eggs on the countryside, so you sort of learn how to behave from young age around the birds, after the fox arived people started puting up poles with boxes for the gulls to make their nests in to avoid sharing the harvest with the fox, as well as leave the gulls a chanse to have surviving younglings who can come back in another year to produce new eggs

so yeah it just wouldnt be the same if we didnt have gull babies around one year, we also tend to feed them scraps now and again...their fun to have around if you can just learn to coexist on their principles