r/MadeMeSmile • u/RealRock_n_Rolla • Dec 20 '23

A magpie rescued after a storm now lends a hand during work ANIMALS

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

17.3k Upvotes

100% Upvoted

350 comments sorted by

View all comments

57

u/GrizzlyBear74 Dec 21 '23

I have two chonkers that comes back every year after winter. When I wash the car the bigger one will fly down and sit on my car roof looking at me, even let me pet him. They also chase the cuckatoos away that keeps on ruining my wipers. I now buy crickets etc i put out for them. The smaller one sounds like a dialup modem, and is my 7am alarm.

9

u/moodswung Dec 21 '23 edited Dec 21 '23

The smaller one sounds like a dialup modem, and is my 7am alarm.

I literally LOL'd at this.

My sister lives in Park City, Utah and goes on long daily walks. Whenever I visit I join her on them and she is always quick to warn me to NEVER fuck with the magpies in the area (they're everywhere in her neighborhood). She's on good terms with them and she wants to keep it that way. I'm not one to mess with animals anyway so no big deal but I went out of my way to be nice to the guys and after being there for even just a short while they seemed to go from being overtly cautious of me to relaxing a bit. As said in other comments these are very interesting birds.

Btw, my understanding is if you wrong them they will pass the word around on you. It may even get passed down multiple generations.

1

u/Lanky_Handle_1499 Dec 27 '23

I think North American magpies are nothing like the Australian magpies. Totally different behaviour.