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Slummish t1_j92x6up wrote

Blue jays and Mockingbirds don't give a shit about your size...

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alcabazar t1_j93088z wrote

I have seen Blue Jays pecking a cat to get it to move...a cat, the number one killer of song birds in the world.

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ffnnhhw t1_j932q9p wrote

I have seen crows and mockingbirds pecking cats, they go for the asshole

I have seen crows attacking and chasing owls and falcons

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Granum22 t1_j93pei3 wrote

I've got a pair of red shouldered hawks and group of crows living near my house. The fights are frequent and cool to watch.

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mecharedneck t1_j94brd8 wrote

I once saw a couple of crows escorting a hawk like a couple of cold war fighters tailing a Soviet bomber.

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Slummish t1_j94c52s wrote

This isn't really related... But I once saw a "documentary" about birds who put holes in giraffes, build a nest, and hatch their young in a bloody, gaping shoulder wound, and the giraffes don't care (or cannot reach the wound) and just let it happen.

Damn Nature, you scary...

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CrossP t1_j92xstq wrote

Blue jays are corvids. They know they have it where it counts.

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Slummish t1_j945949 wrote

I should have added geese to that list as well. A goose will chase off a bobcat (or human) without a second thought.

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SirPierreDelecto t1_j94846c wrote

Saw post of one chasing off a tiger today. They simply don’t give a fuck who you think you are.

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Slummish t1_j948uma wrote

If I had three wishes, the first one would be 'to know everything.'

Geese must be an evolutionary offspring as some ancient line of FUCKYOUASAURUS.

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CrossP t1_j94bci7 wrote

Because they know in their hearts that they are bigger and louder than us.

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Slummish t1_j94bmid wrote

And they've got those crazy backward-facing teeth in their beaks!

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tree_hugging_hippie t1_j94cyrt wrote

Blackbirds too. I watched one dive bomb a hawk for a while once because it didn’t like where the hawk was perched.

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Slummish t1_j94dq3i wrote

My favorite pet ever was a crow. He patrolled our entire estate.

He'd chase off EVERYTHING.

His name was Hoots. Mainly because from the day he came to us, he'd say, "Hey, Hootie Hoots."

Must have been raised by someone else.

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gitsgrl t1_j95r85d wrote

Like a goddamn redwinged blackbird. Divebombing fuckers.

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