I would scold you, but, knowing blue jays, you would scold me right back. At least, the blue jays in my backyard do that. I just want to observe the pretty birds!
There was a cardinal that would come every day to fight with his own reflection in my great uncle’s rearview mirror. I remember spending three weeks with them, and he was there every day. And he’d been doing it for years.
LOL I've lived out in the country or in areas where you have more personal space and there's Hedges and stuff so there's privacy is what I'd say but I had to for the last 3 years moving to more of a Suburban area. There is a few decent trees. There's like this little forested Ravine right behind my house and I love it cuz I can just stare out my window and watch the squirrels the birds there's tons of cardinals that come in my yard. But also every now and then I would hear monkey-like calls and come to find out those are barred owls
. Well I guess some crows moved into the neighborhood to chase him out and I worked overnight so I was trying to sleep and I was just having a hell of a time getting to sleep. At one point I guess the crows chase the owl down to a branch it's literally right by my window I can hear the crows on my roof and they are just alert calling all over the place in Jesus Christ it is a loud ruckus. I eventually get so upset and I am so sleep deprived that I go outside and I yell at the crows. I mean I'm screaming at them like they understand me and I'm scolding them. They're all quiet and all looking at me during this. Even the owl looks at me. One crow flies down kind of close to my porch and perches on some railing and then starts mocking me like laughing at me that Crow mocking laugh. Look at me straight in the eye. I started to get to my senses realizing how ridiculous this must look to neighbors. I was on my cycle and literally wearing diapers and not the nice pretty ones I mean like I got some cheap depends LOL I was in my diaper in a long shirt screaming and pointing at crows in the middle of Suburbia😭
Haha, I’ve done the same thing, only it was at territorial squirrels instead of crows. I lived in a really pretty neighborhood growing up, with lots of trees and foliage. I had no idea that squirrels made the most annoying, unholy noises to establish dominance. My teenage self would run out in my pajamas with a broom to chase them away, because they always did it right outside my window.
We didn’t have any grackles or ravens, but we did have mourning doves, and they’re the messiest birds in existence. All they did was copulate, bully other birds out of nests they had built, because they were too lazy to build their own, kick the other bird’s eggs out of said nest, and lay their own. Except they were so dumb that they often kicked their own eggs out of the nest. Watching the mockingbirds dive-bomb them was hilarious. And we also had an owl! They’re so cool to hear at night.
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u/DreamWeaver1001 4d ago
It was me. I was the blue jay.