this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2024
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[–] [email protected] 65 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Listen, strange birds alighting on keys is no basis is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical avian ceremony!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is this the time to bring up bird law?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Help I’m being repressed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Filibuster!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

Ugh, now you have to randomly burst into song.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A Black-capped Chickadee! Nice.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Could be a Carolina Chickadee depending on location.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

100%. We got one of those AI camera bird feeders, and it mixes them up even though it knows where it physically is. There is very little overlap in range, but I'm sure climate change is changing that also.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are those camera bird feeders worth the money? Would you buy one again if yours broke?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but don't bother with the AI. My thought was I could filter out the field sparrows and house finches, but it didn't work out that way. The camera itself is 100% worth it though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the info! Learned something new today.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I do love a bird that yells its own name

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

🎶 "Chicka-dee-dee-dee"! 🎶 😃

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

When you think about it, the idea of Pokémon saying their own name isn't actually that unrealistic: a lot of animals are named after the sound they make. Peewees, warblers, howler monkeys, kookaburras, hummingbirds, and I believe the ancient Egyptian word for "cat" is "mau".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

They really are irl pokemon

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Yes and the princess is resting on your keys so better not to disturb her.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Chickadees are suprisingly friendly - or maybe just stupid. It takes almost nothing to get them acclimated enough to you to land on you. I used to feed them sunflower seeds out of my hand.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

What are the odds of a bird landing on your keys on a day when your nails are in perfect order are unbelievable

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Perfect order? They're like weirdly grown out and freaky looking. And no one would stage a photo with that dirty porch with random filthy carpet cuts as the backdrop.

True princess photo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

No it holds up. It's like cinderella or snow white at the beginning of the movie, where she's poor and wearing rags but has animal friends.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Oh I see it now. I'm just not used to them ever growing out before getting chipped or ruined somehow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Grown out? They look like they're glue on nails.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yes... and they've grown out, so there's a big gap between the cuticle and nail.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you implying OP and the chickadee are in cahoots?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm just saying there are legitimate questions here and the people deserve to know the truth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My wife once stuck her hand out the car window, and a butterfly landed on it. Separately, I witnessed a squirrel waving at her. Some people lead charmed lives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I see you also married someone from a fairie tale kingdom. Some people just seem to have a certain animal magnetism, ye

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

"I dub thee a knightingale"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

“Yo, got any bird seed?”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I like your nail polish color

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

The bird: Chick-a-deez nutz.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

"Birds love bitches with Nissans. Visit your local dealer today!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

everybody's disney until your Xterra is found stuck in the wall of a Wild Birds Unlimited

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Username checks out lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I'm so jealous I want to cry, I fucking love birds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Princess Nissan

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Apparently a goth princess judging by the nail polish LOL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Imagine a goth Disney princess... A classic Disney princess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

How... Do you learn to do this?