I don't suppose they do think. Most likely they just act on instinct.
Husband went out on the roof terrace to top up our bird bistro, which was getting a bit low on supplies, and very soon after we had more customers.
I'm thinking what the birds might think, "Oh that daft guy has left food out again. Let's eat it!"
"Dig in! It's free food."
"I'll just go and have a sh!t in that water bowl."
If birds think
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I have been thinking long and hard about this, Stravaig, and after I have seen the way half a dozen Pigeons have been acting over the last few days, I have come up with the conclusion that, they just think about food and sex…..I won’t say who Cook said that reminded her of…
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Sitting in my conservatory most of the day unlike when I’m up and about I was amazed at the size of a sparrow hawk that landed in one of the bushes in the garden it was as big as one of the pigeons we get a lot of maybe it’s grey squirrels it’s feeding on as it was going through one of the bushes near the fence the fence is a motorway for the squirrels
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oldherbaceous wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 5:23 am I have been thinking long and hard about this, Stravaig, and after I have seen the way half a dozen Pigeons have been acting over the last few days, I have come up with the conclusion that, they just think about food and sex…..I won’t say who Cook said that reminded her of…
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Now I never thought of that, Peter….
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Birds are great problem solvers so they must think. Why are the eyes of various species different? Bat an eyelid watching them through the window and magpies fly away but wave you arms and the blue tits carry on regardless.
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'Our' collared doves try to catch our eye by looking in through the window when their food has run out. They aslo potter up to the door if the woody is eating his food, to ask for a new pile of seed closer to the house, it is quite endearing! The robin, however, flutters outside the back door like a hummingbird to get our attention.
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Well LImpy, our injured wood pigeon, can almost certainly read the clock. Every time she sees us sitting at the dining room table, she knows it's meal time and is down, peering through the patio window making us feel guilty. if we try to ignore her, she just keeps limping around the patio until my husband has to get up and feed her, or she gives us no peace.