these are some of the irrelavent things i ask myself when i start to fly like a kite...but really, have u ever noticed wild birds sleeping????? do they close their eyes? or just one eye? do they perch on one leg? or two?

In big, comfy, king sized beds with artificial down comforters and pink satin sheets surrounded by sheer misquito netting.

LittlePill said:

translation: in trees.

LittlePill said:

thats just Big Bird from Sesame Street...i'm talking about the regular birds.

Good quesiton, I have often wondered that myself. Really.

I want to know.

They sleep peacefully on the side of the road, many times near the gutter or along the sidewalks...











...or at least I think they're asleep.

ArdeoTheMerciless said:

aha. finally a topic i can discourse knowledgeably about. they sleep on their little perches (the wooden perches, although the little yellow finger perch is a favorite too) on one leg, with the other leg tucked up into their feathers and their head tucked back behind a wing. don't ask me why they don't topple over - although it has happened - or why this is comfortable to them. it just is. they go into their great big cage when it gets dark out, and after a while their human covers the cage up with a multi-colored blanket at night so when they wake at 4:00 a.m. they're relatively quiet until the human gets up, makes them snacks and opens the cage door so they can play around the room. see?

would you say he's drunk? sleeping? been in a bar fight and lost an eye? or just has a lazy eye?

ArdeoTheMerciless said:

for sure he's not happy about that flashbulb

ArdeoTheMerciless said:

He's flirting...

XxAxX said:

yeah, my parrot pretty much does that, but i'm talking about WILD birds...on one leg in the wind? HOW I ASK...HOW!!!!!

XxAxX said:

Xactly! The one leg thing is actually bcause that's the 'relax' positing of their muscles. We have to make an effort to close our hand, they have to maken an effort to open it. And they do fall of their perches! funny stuff!

SpcMs said:

ah ha! thats why i hear my parrot crashing to the floor of his cage like a dumbass during the middle of the night!

XxAxX said:

Cute XxAxX.

I have seen the poopy Pigeons sleeping along the hospital window edges. Those birds are some of the most dirty birds I have ever seen.

I miss my pet birds, they are lovely to have and hear sing in the morning.

Freespirit said:

better still if they can talk and cuss the relatives you dont like when they come over.

Byron said:

That's only when they've had too much to drink.

ArdeoTheMerciless said:

i don't know. i worry about them in the nastier thunderstorms.. .. once after a heavy wind and driving rain i went walking outside and found two birds drenched on the ground. picked them up, popped them under my shirt and hiked them back home. tucked them in a box with some seeds on a heating pad and next morning let them go. i wonder how many die when the wind blows them all wet onto the ground? i know they have a fierce grip and all but still .. .

Freespirit said:

pigeons! i used to work in an office that had a ledge outside the windows and it was this grisly lesson in wild seeing them raise nests full of baby pigeon chicks, then coming in after a weekend to find the local falcons had come by and left. .. well, not much in the nest. . .. . which reminds me couple of weeks ago i saw the oddest thing - heard a bunch of crows all riled about something looked up and there, directly over one of the busier intersections (hennepin ave, lyndale ave and I94 bridgeway) on a flat-topped streetlightwas a hawk (?) great big bird of prey serenely tucking into a crow it had apparently killed.

felt sorry for the crow but admired the hawk. conflicted, i was.

XxAxX said:

i did something similar once when i was about 10...dad almost ran over a bird, saw the bird (a new born birdling), couldnt fly very well, so i took it home to see if it got better...dead by dawn...never bought a wild animal home again ever - except my sister from the hospital.

SpcMs said:

yes they do fall off sometimes and it's pretty funny. we all pretend it didn't happen, and likewise when they come in for a landing and miscalculate .. i gather flying isn't as easy as it seems

XxAxX said:

ArdeoTheMerciless said:

ArdeoTheMerciless said:

funny, this thread is