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The neighbours raised a fledgling starling that lost its mother. When it was big enough it decided the whole world was his best friend and would socialize quite a lot with us. I have a million pictures of him on our heads or shoulders or yelling at us through the kitchen window to come outside and find him some bugs.
Anyway he was absolutely in love with car rides. Yes, a wild bird liked a road trip. The guy who was feeding him used to bring him to work every morning to feed him routinely so he got very used to the car, and he LOVED it. So when we got home from work he'd sit on the roof of the car and yell until we came outside and took him for a ride somewhere. I had many car rides around the neighborhood that summer while he sat on my shoulder and yelled gleefully in my ear.
Dude that’s the sickest(as in best) thing I’ve ever read and I’m not gonna lie I was kinda expecting a terrible turn at the end.
Would love to see some pictures this starling, or videos. It’s on my bucket list to make friends with a bird, particularly crows, and you literally had that. Not only that, the dude loved road trips… like what.
Sorry about his mum though.
Here he is sitting happily on my head. He would sit up there and cheerfully root through my hair looking for bugs, or when I walked the dogs he'd sit up there and yell at everyone we walked past. I will upload a video of him when I get home and am on wifi a little later.
I can’t cope. I’m sooo jealous right now. Look how fluffy he is.
One day I too hope to take a walk with a bird on my head as it shouts at people.
I will look forward to a video of the little fella. It’s evening here now so I’m going to be offline for 8-10 hours.
The funniest part was how distinctive his voice was. You know when a bunch of birds are chirping in a tree? I could pick him out from inside the house calling for me to come get him in a single chirp. He also obviously a great sense of humor, and when he'd stick his face in the kitchen window to tell me to come get him, his face would be like 😁!!! It really was funny.
Video for you: https://imgur.com/a/DUkHhS8
Thanks for sharing.
I can’t quite believe how chill he is with that dog stood there salivating.
He thought it was hilarious to tease the dog. Dog hates birds now though.
That's so cool. I never had a relationship with a bird like that
Me neither! The force of his personality was absolutely unreal. For such a small creature he was extremely happy and demanding and humourous.