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[–] theywilleatthestars 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Pick your own cherries event sees high bird attendance.

[–] PugJesus 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"The rules don't say a bird can't be an attendee"

[–] someguy3 10 points 2 months ago

They can pay with trinkets and shiny things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If I was a high bird I would love a pick your own cherries event

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

They ate all my blueberries this year. I'm going to keep doubling the plants until there is enough left for me.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] aeronmelon 15 points 2 months ago

"That's the spirit!" - birds

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"keep widening the roads till traffic stops"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In an ecosystem I think more roads might just work

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

lol

Laura Jarman from the National Trust said the birds were "so cute, we don't mind too much"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Blackbirds? TIL the SR-71 can run off berries

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If they're fermented I suppose it could! It probably could never run again, but maybe once lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used to have a cherry tree in my garden. I was sitting in the branches picking cherries, when I saw a blackbird (not an SR-71) sitting on the outer twigs eating cherries I couldn’t reach. He had a look in his eye that said “these are my cherries and there’s nothing you can do about it!”

Then a sparrowhawk took him out in front of me and ate him. That’ll teach him.

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

Fuckass bird thinks he can eat my sweet cherries

[–] Transcendant 18 points 2 months ago

My dad is a pensioner now, and got put in a lovely bungalow by local housing association. It came with with a lovely garden, and he was really excited by the prospect of a cherry tree.

Well, the cherries are ready, and the birds ate the lot!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Mao, burning in hell: Same

[–] Jakdracula 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s what I always thought about in zombie movies: birds would make short work of any zombie outbreak.

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

What makes you think birds wouldn't still recognize moving zombies as a potential threat just like living humans or any other larger animal and just stay clear of them? Also, the possibility of zoonosis isn't all that far fetched either, resulting in zombie birds also spreading the plague

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If zombie birds were a thing, then zombie movies would be incredibly short.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Birds are why the trees make the fruit anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not exactly, bugs and mammals play their parts too!

[–] AnUnusualRelic 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll give you mammals, but bugs are mostly shit at carrying seeds around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ah but the bugs polinate, which is why they're there!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Used to have a cherry tree, can relate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Same, the birds would take most of them.

[–] Iheartcheese 6 points 2 months ago

Truly a day that will be remembered.

[–] Nuke_the_whales 4 points 2 months ago

I have pet birds and those little fuckers will never let me eat blueberries in peace, I get my hands bitten till I hand them over

[–] Thcdenton 1 points 2 months ago