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Friendly grackle
Jun. 9th, 2004 05:28 pmI was about to post this as a comment to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
laura_borealis, but thought of several other friends who might find this interesting, so I'll post it here. I got off the phone a little while ago with my Mom, who told me about a tame grackle in their neighbourhood. She went to have tea with a neighbour, and the bird came right up to them and took cracker crumbs and other food from their hands. The neighbour said it has been around all spring, but she was nervous about touching it. Mom commented to me that the West Nile Virus has made people afraid of birds in general.
Mom isn't afraid of animals at all; not snakes, spiders, or anything else. If the grackle had come to her yard, she said, she would have it in her lap in no time. That's one that always made me proud of my Mom. The neighbourhood kids couldn't scare her with frogs or worms, not that anyone would have tried.
laura_borealis, but thought of several other friends who might find this interesting, so I'll post it here. I got off the phone a little while ago with my Mom, who told me about a tame grackle in their neighbourhood. She went to have tea with a neighbour, and the bird came right up to them and took cracker crumbs and other food from their hands. The neighbour said it has been around all spring, but she was nervous about touching it. Mom commented to me that the West Nile Virus has made people afraid of birds in general.Mom isn't afraid of animals at all; not snakes, spiders, or anything else. If the grackle had come to her yard, she said, she would have it in her lap in no time. That's one that always made me proud of my Mom. The neighbourhood kids couldn't scare her with frogs or worms, not that anyone would have tried.
