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Zion National Park, UT

#national parks #zionnps

Spooky Sky for Halloween

Under the Sea 🌊

#la jolla #diving #oceanbeach #alive #lovely

Caught in a thunderstorm ⛈

Eastern Sierra Nevada Moutains

Eastern Sierra Nevada Moutains, California USA

#mountians #travel #california

Salton Sea, California

#saltonsea #love nature #state park

Laguna Beach, CA

#lagunabeach #sunset #looks like a painting

Adventure at every horizon

Head in the Clouds

Cuyahoga River, Cleveland Ohio

#cuyahoga river

Whipps Ledges, Ohio

#WhippsLedges

ofools

Would anyone like to see pictures of this bird I’m friends with

ofools

I love her

ofools

i am loving people’s attempts to identify this bird its just an australian magpie, she’s not a chimera, she’s not a fucked up crow, etc. she is just….. a regular run of the mill magpie

ofools

She is also a mother…. here is her yelling son who she brought to me one time

windriderdelta

HOW THE HELL DID YOU BEFRIEND AN AUSTRALIAN MAGPIE

ofools

i give her chips sometimes

ethanrayne

From what I’ve heard, australian magpies are actually quite nice if they trust you not to hurt them. Swooping season happens because, as a species, they’ve learned that most humans are Dangerous and so they preemptively attack to protect themselves and their young. If you’ve been nice to a group of magpies, though, they’ll remember you and you won’t be swooped at.

melredcap

Magpies are extremely cool birds, and very intelligent… which means that they know that humans are the biggest threat around and that we can be good friends. Thus, swooping, and also not swooping humans who have proven themselves to be trustworthy sources of food.

The funniest interaction I ever had with some magpies was when one of my former workplaces had our Christmas lunch as a picnic in a park. A pair of magpies were teaching their fledgeling how to beg for food from humans. First one would approach, crouch down and coo at us; someone threw them a bit of cheese. Then the other adult approached, crouched down and cooed at us; someone threw a piece of cabanossi. Both tidbits were picked up, taken back and shared with the offspring… then the adults were standing there looking at the fledgeling and then at us, obviously going “Go on, then, you try it!”

Fledgeling magpie nervously walked closer to us, looked back at its parents, then half-crouched and yelled “RAWK!” in our direction. We cracked up laughing, startling the poor baby, but he or she got over it pretty quickly when a HAIL of bits of cheese and sausage landed all around.