at least more so than the jackdaws which dont really care about me being around
Jackdaws are famous for being highly sociable, certainly the most gregarious of the Corvid family, and for that reason can make excellent pets.
At the other end of the Corvid family are Jays who are extremely shy and tend to be solitary. IME they hate and fear humans.
Jays do have a nasty habit of turning into fishermen lures and are more solitary.
Round here though do see them quite a lot and they arent as panicky as their reputation suggests. Mostly flit around but dont disappear on sight.
The Magpie was back in the kitchen this evening, helping itself to the cat food again
It obviously now thinks our house is an all you can eat buffet
Seems reasonable…
The starlings are far noisier than the maggies - there’s two maggies, and I can’t begin to count how many starlings there are now, what with all the new fledglings.
I’d love to have maggies brave enough to take food from my hand, there was a wild pheasant that used to come to the fence around the car park where I used to work, there were fields just the other side of the hedge that the fence was next to, he’d recognise my car, and sit waiting on the top rail of the fence for me to get the bird food I put out for all the birds, come up and take food out of my hand, even let me scratch the back of his head! Beautiful bird, but not as beautiful as the other one that used to turn up - it was a lot warier, but instead of the usual colouring, it’s whole body was the deep blue/green that a pheasants head usually is, and no white band around the neck. Stunning creature with the early morning sun on it.
There are ravens around, they sometimes fly over the house, I’d love them to come into the garden for snacks, they wouldn’t tolerate cats being around.
