I make fairy houses out of little birdhouses. Some I just paint as a typical house, some are around town buildings. We have a mushroom church with 2 gnomes getting married and stuff like that. My favorite is the wing repair shop with a holographic roof so fairies can see it from the air. We paint at least 2 or 3 new ones every year, it's so fun. Our fairy garden will never be 'pretty', but it gets a lot of love, play, and imagination.
I have that same birdhouse! I haven't painted it yet. Now I need to, you've inspired me. My bird story: When my sister and I were young we found a crow that had been shot with a BB gun. We took him to the vet, who fixed him up and told us how to care for him until he could be released. We named him Edgar Alan Crow. When he was well, we tried to release him, but he was having none of that. "Free food, a nice warm place to stay and human servants, nope, I'm good right here." We'd put him out, and the minute someone opened the door he'd swoop back inside.
I'm sorry your ocean painting collection didn't get the views it deserved. I found it so relaxing. My anxiety has been terrible lately and it was nice to watch your process. 🌊
Years ago my son and I went for a walk at a family party. One of the neighbors had a white goose. As it started to approach us, we stepped slowly, walking backwards. Then I heard my son’s flip flops clopping as he turned around and started running. I quickly followed his lead and ran as fast as I could trying not lose my flip flops as well. I do not know what came over me but I stopped, turned around and karate chopped it across the neck. I look up to see my cousin running down the driveway, grabbing a handful of stones to come to our aid. He was pelting it with the pebbles as I see the rest of the family who had stopped their game of volleyball to watch the chaos. They were laughing so hard. Some of them were literally rolling on the ground. It must have been pretty hilarious. We still laugh about it.😂
It’s wild that your larger projects that take more time do the least views, because those are the videos and the paintings you do that drew me to you and your channel in the first place! I love all of your landscapes and all of your waters, especially
A few years ago I was helping set up for an event with my schools theater department. Me and some other students were in the lobby which had glass windows from floor to ceiling. Before I go on, in theater there’s this superstition where if you say the word “Macbeth” in a theater, then you’re supposedly cursed until you do something weird like running around the theater 3 times or stuff like that. Anyway one of my friends had said Macbeth and a few moments later we were in the lobby and three giant crows flew into the glass windows at the exact same time. It was really loud and scared us until we realized it was the birds. I don’t really believe in the Macbeth superstition but it sure was scary/weird when that happened. lol, so that’s my bird story. But Im scared of birds too. I also admire from afar. Love the video!!
I really like the color choices you made with this one! It gives the perfect spring vibe. My bird story is that birds left some droppings on my childhood swing set. Being unfamiliar with it, I was completely unbothered by it. But then, my playmate from across the street came over and she informed me that bird droppings are poisonous....and deadly for those who touch it. Needless to say, I was terrified of my "approaching death" because I had touched the swing. And I was in complete tears lol.
I love birds! The first story that came to mind isn't a scary one but definitely one of my favorites. One time I saw a bird at Chick-Fil-A and did a double take....it was flying by very carefully carrying an upright, half open container of dipping sauce in its beak. 😂
Every time I hear you say you have kids I get such a happy heart. Love bird houses and I haven't seen the ocean paintings because life has been crazy with my own little one but I'm excited to go back and watch them!
What a Sweet little bird house! Love it! My bird story happened probably in 4th grade. My cousins had a mated pair of geese. I was Petrified of them & if they were on back side of house, I'd walk all the wa😂y around the house to go in the front door. One time my cousin laughed at me & called me a pansy. "They're just geese." Ha! Geese that were sitting on eggs! She walked right toward them & hit that invisible line that set the gander off. He took off chasing her, head down, neck stretched out, hissing, flapping wings. She screamed & ran, goose hot on her tail. I thought my Uncle was going to fall out of the chair laughing. Since the gander was now gone, chasing my cousin, I took the chance to run in the back door. 😊
I love birds but this is a story - not scary for me, but for the man. One year in Ireland we were sitting by the water where people will feed the ducks and swans. There was a swan family there (parents and three babies) and this man was trying to get a photo of the swans. He even got down and was lying on the ground trying to get the perfect shot. Suddenly one of the parent swans charged at him. No one was hurt, but I never saw a person jump up so fast in my life 😂
I love that Wingspan is sparking your interest in birds! My husband and I absolutely love birds. 🥰 Last week, we discovered that a duck had laid an egg in our flower bed amongst some of our Russian sage. 🤭
Ohhhh!!! That is awesome! I hope you enjoy all the sweet moments of seeing the duck sit on the nest and the little ones hatch! We had the same thing happen a couple years ago and it was so fun!! We named her Abigail the duck hehe 💜💜
@@MiraByler I really hope we get to see it. Momma duck got spooked when Zach went to mow, and that’s how he discovered it. We are trying to be careful to not spook her away.
I love your ocean collection. Your paintings are very serene in such a busy world. ❤ as for bird stories, my family visited Australia years ago, and we were at the zoo eating lunch. My brother had chicken wings, and a kookaburra swooped down, grabbed the wing from his hand, landed nearby, and kept eye contact while he ate it!
I love all these colours sooooo much on the bird house! 😍😍 Liner brushes are the best. And for a smoother affect add acrylic flow medium. The colour will still be opaque but will glide very nicely. I love birds, we have a lot in our garden, different shapes etc. When I was around 6 years old I went to a family friends house. We knew they had a very protective magpie. Mum would send us running out of the car and they would open their garage up to let us run in. We never played outside there. It was surrounded in bush too. The maggie got me on the back of the head one day. A deep cut where she swooped on me. All the maggies in my garden are lovely though. The young ones play like puppies. One will lay down on its back and the other will jump on it haha! I also was in my mums garden as a late teen and a bird flew down next to me. I said hello and it said hello back then flew off haha. My uncle was holding a piece of pizza on our deck, on the phone. A kookaburra swooped down and grabbed the pizza out of his hand. It was hilarious to see. My husband went near my mums rooster and this one was a BIG BOY and fully went to attack my husband. He ran out of the caged area and I had to use a low loud voice and stand in a bird pose, like as though I had huge feathers and yelled at the rooster to calm down. He then went back to the chooks.
Wow your bird story brings back memories. When I was young, I used to go to my grandparents farm. My grandma had ducks and geese. If you got to close to their babies they would his and come at you. My kids laugh at me when I say that they are scary when the hiss and come at you.they never got to experience being in the farm like I did. It makes me sad because being on a farm is an experience that you can’t get anywhere else.
I really get along with birds actualy. I love feeding them in the winter though I move a lot so I've not been able to grow too attached to any. Currently my local duo are a pair of magpies who tease my dogs from the fence. There is also a nearby park where I'm pretty friendly with the jackdaws. sometimes I sit in the grass taking a break from cycling and lie my bike next to me and the jackdaws just hop up on my bike and watch me. I definitely want a solid bird friendly setup once I'm able to settle down in one location. A nice wildflower area with a birdbath and some feeders and bird houses.
A few years ago we had a little birdie try to make a nest in the wreath on our front door. I kept hearing this tapping on my door, but when I’d open it, nobody was there. Then one time I looked through the peep hole, and there was this giant bird eye looking back at me. 🤣 Startled me so badly. I mean, still loads better than opening to door to find a big snake sunbathing right on the doorstep, but that only happened twice. 😅
@@MiraByler I thought I was imagining things, or had the most skilled and dedicated ding dong ditcher, because it took me like over an hour to figure out what was going on.
I'm starting to overcome my fear of birds, I even held a Tucan last year ❤ but when the weather changes and there are swarms of birds it terrifies me to no end. They make the whole yard black there's so many. That being said my favorite dresses have birds on them and one of my favorite drawings is of birds by my favorite Illustrator Quentin Blake. ❤ your birdhouse is adorable! My 3 year old would love one in our garden! Making a mental note to go to Michaels!
You can use a strong command hook and hang it anywhere in ur garden. U can also use command hooks to hang feeders on ur windows. Maybe the kiddos windows and they'll grow up not being scared of birds. Birds are cool. Related to the 🦖 🦕 I heard. 😅❤ Also, alot of people don't know about bird stickers. It helps them see glass windows and doors. I put planters in front of my sliding door bc hawks were running into it dive bombing the morning doves feeding.
I remembered while watching that one time a bird built its nest my room's window and I was watching it until the eggs hatched and the children flew. It was very emotional and beautiful.
I've always loved birds and my favourite is a flamingo. Though when I was a kid at my grandparents farm there was a turkey there that was almost the same height as me. That was terrifying but after we harvested the turkeys, it tasted delicious. I find it interesting I have three favourite movies involves birds, there's Paulie, The Crow and Fly Away Home. I was also supposed to be in a bird banding course in high school but was denied going in it. Since I moved to Newfoundland I have yet to meet a puffin.
I love that bird house it's so cheery. I think the hook would be too low down for a bird to nest in as they prefer higher up spots to prevent predators getting them.
I’m not a bird-watcher… but I do like to watch birds. Haha A few years back I noticed one female House Sparrow in particular with some unique markings. She had bright white wing feathers which is definitely not normal for the species. This is how I learned what Leucism in animals. I named her Jacey. I loved seeing her every day and getting to observe her spunky personality. The following year she must have had babies because I then spotted a male with her same markings. I named him Sora. But I never got to see Sora grow up because that particular flock moved to a different part of town. It’s strange sometimes… Jacey and Sora weren’t my pets, but I miss them as if they were. 🥹
This was such a cute little spring project. Absolutely adorable and yellow is my favorite color. I love all the pastels. I still have a bird feeder to paint so you've inspired me to do that
Aww I loved this and reading everyone's bird encounters! I used to volunteer at an animal sanctuary as a teen in the critical care animal hospital we once had an injured goose. Now I'm not sure what happened to the little guy but he did not like us one bit. When we had to change his bedding he would peck like mad and we had to wear these thick protective gloves. Weird thing was once he was in the outside enclosure he kept escaping and coming back to the treatment centre so maybe his pecking was affectionate after all!
Mira, I understand about the birds. My daughter was too. I found bird feeders that suction cup to your windows. Birds live them and the kids are fascinated by them.
My partner used to live in a port town, and I in a neighbouring one. To get from one to the other we have to take a ferry. The seagulls in the port-town are really something, they are so cheeky and never scared. Worst thing that happened to me was getting pooped on by one while sitting on the ferry. Still had a full school day ahead of me
Ahh, that makes me so happy to hear you love to play Wingspan with your best friend! It is so fun getting together with the girls and enjoying some coffee and Wingspan!! We love it lol! 💜
Currently have some robins nesting around us. For God only knows why, they like my blue pickup truck. Specifically, they like sitting on the side mirrors, pecking on the side mirror glass and pooing all over the mirror. If that's not enough, they then go after to side windows and hood! I give it to them though, as I like having robins around the home.
Hi, Mira. I love the colors you decided to choose to paint your birdhouse. When I was in high school, I had this bad dream where a duck was pecking me, and one time, when I went to this botanical gardens park with my parents and our dogs, I let go of the leash I had in my hand. My dog Hope was chasing after the ducks when I saw them. I thought I was going to die by them pecking me to death.
No fright stories but being on rez most animals flight, crawls, runs, gallops, stomps are seen as signs of ancestors, good medicine, or warnings. Anyway a mockingbird once followed me chirping~ I needed to pay more attention and protect my family. A sparrow landed on my shirt and stared at me before flying off ~she was giving me hope and friendship Owl sat on a tree inside the city less than 7ft from me hooting loudly~ there's wisdom, knowledge to be gained or deception. There is some other more darker meanings but I prefer to see the lighter side. Crow once landed on my hood of my car turned its head at me~I need to transform myself for the positive. Sorry for the long details but I love your channel. You're channel is very uplifting even when we have dark days. 😊
I am from Australia so we have some different kind of birds. My sister when she was about 12 was attacked by an Emu. She had a bag of candy in her hand or something and the emu wanted them. The best part, it was caught on the old movie cams for everyone to forever remember. You have to remember that emus are probably the same height as a child. We also have Australian magpies and during nesting season the males often swoop perceived predators. I was riding my bike once from work and another time too work and was attacked by these birds. First time, I got home (as I was almost there when it happened) and my ear was definitely bleeding (they bite you) and the second time on the bike the one bird made three swoops and got me each time. It is very scary, as you're being attacked and bitten by these birds and yet you're also riding your bike at speed and you're trying to not fall off, especially if there are cars near by. Anyway google Australian magpie attacks and you'll see what I mean. I don't hold it against the birds, they are just protecting their babies and I can't fault that.
When I was a kid I was given a parakeet for Christmas. Loved my parakeet. It was green and yellow so called him Lemon Green 😂. Lemon would play with our cat and they would play peek-a-boo with each other around the corner. One day the cat pounced and Lemon took off like usual, however, this time he flew into our chandelier above the dinner table and fell. Died in my hands 😭I was traumatized and bawled for days!
My first time at the beach in Florida we were having lunch and a segull swooped down and stole my entire PB&J sandwich out of my hand lol. Cute video ❤
I love how the bird house turned out! ♥ I had a little encounter with a bird of prey (nothing traumatizing though). I was about 11 and I was a huge fan of Harry Potter and I was in my room, window was open and I saw this dark blob coming towards me and I wasn't sure what it was at first. When it got closer and closer I realized it's a bird and I was REALLY hoping for my Hogwarts letter haha (I know xD)! I don't remember exactly what kind of bird it was but it wouldn't stop flying straight towards me. I kid you not - it stopped just a few inches (I was standing at the window) before me and looked directly at me. I just remember a pair of big yellow eyes staring into mine and huge wings- then it flew upwards and vanished. I was stunned and excited and a little disappointed I haven't gotten my letter xD
Here's my terrifying bird story. I got attacked by a huge buzzard when I worked as a vet tech yeara ago. When I tried to feed the buzzard, he came for me like a maniac (which is fair, he was a scared wild animal after all). He grabbed my lower left arm with his talons, while biting into my lower right arm with his beak. I couldn't do much more than stand there with outstretched arms, yelling for help, while this beast of a bird had me in a tight grip. It was such a weird situation to be in! It took ages for one of my colleagues to hear me. When they finally got the bird off me, both my arms were now adorned with quite deep holes. It was a story they hadn't heard before at the emergency room! 😅
I watch ALL your videos! I think your wonderful and love being art fam. I am afraid of birds as well!!! My bird confession😊... Me and my sister had a morning dove as kids and it was so nice to her but it would peck me all the time for no reason. I have like 5 more bird stories. I live in Erie PA and the seagulls on the beach are savages!!! Birds are pretty...from FAR away lol.
I think I terrified birds more as a kid more than they terrified me. I was always fascinated by birds and I would always try to chase them around and pick them up, but my mom always told me “no.” And I’m glad she did. And I also remember I had a cat who would hunt birds and bring us a dead bird as a welcome home gift whenever we got home from a trip
I love birds, my mom had some when I was younger, so I don’t have an issue with them. However, my husband is TERRIFIED of birds. When he was about 6 years old, his grandmother had a parrot and this parrot bit him on the ear, almost completely piercing his ear. He still has this place on his ear that looks like a piercing gone wrong, a scar. He has a very big fear of birds and one time when we were dating, (we live near the beach) a bunch of seagulls were in between us and the his car, on the driver side. He stopped me going to the passenger door, where there was no birds, so that he could enter the car through the passenger side and crawl to the drivers side. I watched this whole thing in amazement and really realized how afraid he was. I then went round to the drivers side, once he was safely in the car, and I walked right up to the birds until they flew off. He just shook his head and laughed! I have been pooped on a few times, and that’s not fun, but ultimately, I love birds, I just know that I will never get to own any (though maybe that’s exactly what my husband needs, me getting some smaller, cute little fluttery birds, not a parrot). Needless to say, we don’t get to have any fun parrot experiences at amusement parks, zoos or down on the boardwalk!
The way I LITERALLY gasped when you said beach and seagull and then Cheeto!! I feel so much closer to you now!!! Haha My first bad encounter was I was young and at the beach and sharing some cheezits with a couple seagulls. They multiplied quickly and I RAN OUT OF CHEEZITS! They were not pleased and i had to submerge myself in water just to get them to go away! Been terrified ever since
Im not scared of birds, like at all, but I was brought up to be wary of swans (repeated was told as a child that a swan can and will break your arm - which to be fair, they can), and there was a super weird period of time when i was in primary school where like 6/ 7 kids were attacked by seagulls who wanted to steal their snacks, like in the playground
Ooo! I've also had 3 birds, 3 different times, fly in my house and get stuck. They'd charge the windows, because birds can't see glass. It was kinda terrifying, but most I just felt bad for the birds. They all eventually got out though.😂
I was afraid of birds for the longest time. The day after my dad passed away my best friend and I took a walk and we ended up finding and baby pigeon stuck in the bridge grate and I took it home and kept it until it could even fly. Tried to release it back into the wild and it wouldn't leave me so I kept it. Until I decided to take it to my mom's farm and he ended up living in the barn. Ever since then I've got used to birds and absolutely adore them.
One time as i was little a friend of mine and i played catch and got to near at a swan he was pissed and followed us for a few minutes luckily he/or she didn't got us and left us alone. Another time i was at the beach with my mom and i got a soft ice. The woman warned us of the seagulls but my mom went on Top of a hill to find a chair to sit. I followed her knowing that there is danger in the sky. In the moment i remembered her of the womans warning a felt air and than a wing at my face. Shocked i looked down at my ice and there was a carving in it from the birds beak. Everyone around me laughed even the seagulls. (Sorry if something is writen wrong. Im from Germany)
omg geese are SO mean, lol. I was at Whetsone the other day doing plein air with my puppy & the geese were in a MOOD, lol. I haven't liked birds since I watched the movie Birds by Alfred Hitchcock when I stayed home sick from school once when I was kid. it was a full trauma experience, lol.
Cute! I thought you meant you were scared of songbirds, but having negative experiences from a gull, swan, and goose isn't surprising--they're just aggressive. One time in college I was taking a walk with my MK (missionary kid) friend who grew up in Peru around the little pond. We came past a tree and all of a sudden there was a goose--I think sitting on a nest, even. I gasped and was like "Back up! Back up!" My friend was very confused about this sudden danger 😅
Okay, it's crazy, but my family stumbled across a red bellied woodpecker that was stunned on the road when we went out for a drive in the mountains. We wanted to help it, so we took it into our car to place it somewhere safe off and away from the road. But it "came too" while we were driving it and started flying around in the car while my dad was driving!!! We ended up stopping and opening the doors to our van, but it wouldn't come out. It was hiding under the gas pedal! Finally got it out, though. So, Lesson learned.
Oh no!!! Sealants can be so tricky. I use any sealant that says it’s good for acrylics. Some of them specify if it’s for oils, etc. Mod podge also works!
I'm not a bird person either. Prob stems from the time I was a toddler. My mom, brother, and uncle went to the El Paso zoo. It was Xmas eve or real close, so it was slow. The emus were used to people feeding them, but they hadn't seen much action until I walked up with my popcorn in hand. It ran up and reached it's head right over the fence and pecked me right in the face/eye. I was ok, I don't think it even left a mark, but still terrifying for a toddler who just wanted to see the emu 😂
I have a bird confession.... when I was little my family and I visited a zoo here in Australia which had some emus wondering around. We decided to hit the picnic spot an have lunch. I was enjoying a small meat pie and an emu thought he would enjoy it too so it started to chase me for my meat pie. I ran like the clappers but of course emus can run very fast too. I got so scared I ended up throwing the pie at the emu along with a few choice words. Don't much like being around emus, especially near picnic spots.
When I was a child I was playing in my front yard enjoying my day and out of no where bird poop landed on my head and I stopped in my tracks and touched it to see what it was and immediately started crying as my sibling started hysterically laughing at me and then I ran inside to my mom 😌😅
I don't have any scary bird stories, other than being chased by geese! However when I was like 12 I had 6 pet ducklings I raised in my bedroom till old enough to swim out on my parents pond. Ronnie, Zues,Frog,Sarah,Mary and Jason were their names. Stupid neighbor dogs got them all. 😢
birbs are our friends! ok maybe not so much the little red robins here. they just look like they hate everyone😝 (seagulls can get pretty grabby tho) very pretty cute little house🥰
I have this cute goose story. I walk away from geece to let them know i am not trying to invade their space. and i semi get nervous when they walk towards me. I could see about 10-15 feet away, there was this goose walking towards me in my lane. I saw a person walking next to the goose side by side, but then I saw the goose walk in front of the person to cross the road to using the ramp crosswalk to be near his goose friend. everything about that was super adorable..... and he waddled away waddle waddle.
omg i'm terrified of birds too (but i am not warming up to them and i dont think i ever will lol)🤗😅 years ago (i'm saying around 15 or so), a family friend who lives in a rural area and had a lot of land owned a rooster. we'd always been warned that he was terruotiral, so we never messed with him. one time while we were over there, my sister and i stayed outside to pet the horse and feed him some snacks. our friend and mom had gone in the house for something. i can't remember exactly what happened, but next thing i knew, the rooster was charging us. i picked my sister up (she was probably 5 or so) while screaming lol then the rooster flies at us and lands on my sister with his spurs in her leg! my friend and mom come running out of the house and get the rooster away from us lol my sister wasn't injured too badly, but she had the indent of where the sours went in. our friend called us that night to say her and her husband had rooster for dinner😂 i didn't think it was that traumatizing at the time tbh but as ive gotten older, my fear and just general dislike of birds has only gotten stronger, particularly chickens and geese lol i always feel stupid saying birds are one of my biggest fears bcuz ppl don't often think of birds as scary lol but it makes me happy to know i'm not the only one with this fear😂
Your story about the swan reminded me instantly of that one Gilmore Girls episode. Quote Jess Mariano : "I was attacked by a swan. Okay, you happy? A stupid swan." Season 3, Episode 14 if you wanna check it out :)
When I was younger, I worked at a home improvement store and having birds in the lumber area was not uncommon. One day we ended up with a sparrowhawk that had flown in, and it was so stressed, It was diving at all the customers we had to call animal control to come get it.
Lol I had a pigeon poop on my head once in Brazil and also yesterday discovered that a woodpecker has pecked a hole in the side of my house and has built a nest. Me and birds don’t always mesh very well. Lol.
no scary but sad bird story happened this autumn. little redstart bumped into our balcony door. he drank a few drops of water and cuddled in my hands; but I couldn´t help him, just hold him and keep him warm until his soul flew away.
Not a scary bird story at all buttttttt… When i was 6 i tamed a street pigeon that would sit on our window sill. I fed him and at some point he would eat from my hands and would even let me pet him. Pigeons are actually really soft lol. When i was seven he didn‘t return anymore so i assume he died around that time. He was the chonkiest of birbs and we loved each other. We would just chill together at the window and enjoy each other‘s company. At one point he even fell asleep on the window sill inside our apartment. He was the cutest and i now have a tattoo of him. His name was rex and i still remember him every day Also lowkey scary but very funny, recently my dog got attacked by a pigeon. Nothing happened and nobody got hurt, so i can laugh a bit, but i have never seen that happen before because pigeons are usually very peaceful creatures. That did make me laugh at my dog‘s expense though. He‘s fine and still likes to run after pigeons though!
This is not weird or terrifying but……we all know it’s spring time and we noticed a bird’s nest in our wreath hanging on our front door with four eggs, well 3 babies hatched and have flown away and now there are another five new eggs in the nest! Momma is always near and flies off whenever we come home. I’m taking it down after this group hatches and no more wreaths for a while!
A friend of minerals nesting (Eurasian) blue tits that come back every year, and for 3 years or so they have a small camera in there so they can watch the eggs hatch and see when they will fly out after. There are birdhouses (and also birdfeeders) with the camera build in. Not a big birth person, butbstill love seeing it. Was attacked by a seagull 2 years ago, those got to confident around people always feeding them, so they would just come and get it themselves at that point.
If I see a birds nest molded to a some kind of wall, roof or a surface, I would quess it´s a swallow. But I live in Finland, so I don´t know for sure what kinds of birds you have there... Owls have these tendencies to stare at me when I´m hiking. A few years back I went to the woods, and an owl was sitting on a branch just next to my ear, so close it almost touched it... It was just staring at me and kept weird noises. That was a really creepy happening. And it´s not a first time owls come and stare me up close.
When I was a child a goose bit me. As an adult my husband, me and our daughter were in a boat and a swan came to attack. Our daughter was three and now calls swans "Devil Chickens". However my most recent encounter was yesterday and a bird flew down like it was going to attack my head but did not.
I went to the beach while I was eating chicken wing a seagull came out nowhere and snap it out of my hand 😮i was in shock and mad because ibwas enjoying my wing 😅
As a Canadian I have many times been charged and hissed at by Canadian Geese (aka cobra chickens). 99% of birds don't bother me but geese always put me on edge when they are around and close.
When it's mating seasons for the, necessary but seriously creepy, buzzard. They hang around in crazy numbers. My dog yard was mating dating central. I have 3 very large choc labs and they hung about in their houses til they left. This went on for weeks.
I was napping on the couch. Then I was awakened by a bird that flew right into my window. As soon as it hit, I jumped so high out of a sound sleep. I have never been so scared. Even went outside to see if the bird was okay. It took awhile for it fly.
I make fairy houses out of little birdhouses. Some I just paint as a typical house, some are around town buildings. We have a mushroom church with 2 gnomes getting married and stuff like that. My favorite is the wing repair shop with a holographic roof so fairies can see it from the air. We paint at least 2 or 3 new ones every year, it's so fun. Our fairy garden will never be 'pretty', but it gets a lot of love, play, and imagination.
I have that same birdhouse! I haven't painted it yet. Now I need to, you've inspired me. My bird story: When my sister and I were young we found a crow that had been shot with a BB gun. We took him to the vet, who fixed him up and told us how to care for him until he could be released. We named him Edgar Alan Crow. When he was well, we tried to release him, but he was having none of that. "Free food, a nice warm place to stay and human servants, nope, I'm good right here." We'd put him out, and the minute someone opened the door he'd swoop back inside.
I'm sorry your ocean painting collection didn't get the views it deserved. I found it so relaxing. My anxiety has been terrible lately and it was nice to watch your process. 🌊
Thank you 💜💜
Years ago my son and I went for a walk at a family party. One of the neighbors had a white goose. As it started to approach us, we stepped slowly, walking backwards. Then I heard my son’s flip flops clopping as he turned around and started running. I quickly followed his lead and ran as fast as I could trying not lose my flip flops as well. I do not know what came over me but I stopped, turned around and karate chopped it across the neck. I look up to see my cousin running down the driveway, grabbing a handful of stones to come to our aid. He was pelting it with the pebbles as I see the rest of the family who had stopped their game of volleyball to watch the chaos. They were laughing so hard. Some of them were literally rolling on the ground. It must have been pretty hilarious. We still laugh about it.😂
It’s wild that your larger projects that take more time do the least views, because those are the videos and the paintings you do that drew me to you and your channel in the first place! I love all of your landscapes and all of your waters, especially
Thank you! I really appreciate that! 💜
I love them too, they are so relaxing to look at!
A few years ago I was helping set up for an event with my schools theater department. Me and some other students were in the lobby which had glass windows from floor to ceiling. Before I go on, in theater there’s this superstition where if you say the word “Macbeth” in a theater, then you’re supposedly cursed until you do something weird like running around the theater 3 times or stuff like that. Anyway one of my friends had said Macbeth and a few moments later we were in the lobby and three giant crows flew into the glass windows at the exact same time. It was really loud and scared us until we realized it was the birds. I don’t really believe in the Macbeth superstition but it sure was scary/weird when that happened.
lol, so that’s my bird story. But Im scared of birds too. I also admire from afar. Love the video!!
Wow! The timing of that had to be so eerie! Haha!
I really like the color choices you made with this one! It gives the perfect spring vibe. My bird story is that birds left some droppings on my childhood swing set. Being unfamiliar with it, I was completely unbothered by it. But then, my playmate from across the street came over and she informed me that bird droppings are poisonous....and deadly for those who touch it. Needless to say, I was terrified of my "approaching death" because I had touched the swing. And I was in complete tears lol.
I was also chased by swans, geese, ducks, and a goat! Birds can be vicious sometimes. I still love them, and I love your videos!
A goat?! I am so curious!! Haha!
I love birds! The first story that came to mind isn't a scary one but definitely one of my favorites. One time I saw a bird at Chick-Fil-A and did a double take....it was flying by very carefully carrying an upright, half open container of dipping sauce in its beak. 😂
It makes me so happy to see that you have a new video up!
Every time I hear you say you have kids I get such a happy heart.
Love bird houses and I haven't seen the ocean paintings because life has been crazy with my own little one but I'm excited to go back and watch them!
Thanks for letting us hang out with you. Any time with you is a gift. Your little ones are going to love this❤
What a Sweet little bird house! Love it!
My bird story happened probably in 4th grade. My cousins had a mated pair of geese. I was Petrified of them & if they were on back side of house, I'd walk all the wa😂y around the house to go in the front door. One time my cousin laughed at me & called me a pansy. "They're just geese." Ha! Geese that were sitting on eggs! She walked right toward them & hit that invisible line that set the gander off. He took off chasing her, head down, neck stretched out, hissing, flapping wings. She screamed & ran, goose hot on her tail. I thought my Uncle was going to fall out of the chair laughing. Since the gander was now gone, chasing my cousin, I took the chance to run in the back door. 😊
That is HILARIOUS. I’m sure your cousin was thoroughly traumatized lol
I love birds but this is a story - not scary for me, but for the man. One year in Ireland we were sitting by the water where people will feed the ducks and swans. There was a swan family there (parents and three babies) and this man was trying to get a photo of the swans. He even got down and was lying on the ground trying to get the perfect shot. Suddenly one of the parent swans charged at him. No one was hurt, but I never saw a person jump up so fast in my life 😂
Wow, I bet he was startled!!!
@@MiraByler 🤣 He was, but he was laughing too.
I love that Wingspan is sparking your interest in birds! My husband and I absolutely love birds. 🥰 Last week, we discovered that a duck had laid an egg in our flower bed amongst some of our Russian sage. 🤭
Ohhhh!!! That is awesome! I hope you enjoy all the sweet moments of seeing the duck sit on the nest and the little ones hatch! We had the same thing happen a couple years ago and it was so fun!! We named her Abigail the duck hehe 💜💜
@@MiraByler I really hope we get to see it. Momma duck got spooked when Zach went to mow, and that’s how he discovered it. We are trying to be careful to not spook her away.
That bird house is so cute!! 🥰 Your painting made it beautiful!! 🌷
I love your ocean collection. Your paintings are very serene in such a busy world. ❤ as for bird stories, my family visited Australia years ago, and we were at the zoo eating lunch. My brother had chicken wings, and a kookaburra swooped down, grabbed the wing from his hand, landed nearby, and kept eye contact while he ate it!
Wow, that had to be shocking! 😂
that pink roof is so cute!! 🥰
I love all these colours sooooo much on the bird house! 😍😍 Liner brushes are the best. And for a smoother affect add acrylic flow medium. The colour will still be opaque but will glide very nicely.
I love birds, we have a lot in our garden, different shapes etc.
When I was around 6 years old I went to a family friends house. We knew they had a very protective magpie. Mum would send us running out of the car and they would open their garage up to let us run in. We never played outside there. It was surrounded in bush too. The maggie got me on the back of the head one day. A deep cut where she swooped on me. All the maggies in my garden are lovely though. The young ones play like puppies. One will lay down on its back and the other will jump on it haha!
I also was in my mums garden as a late teen and a bird flew down next to me. I said hello and it said hello back then flew off haha.
My uncle was holding a piece of pizza on our deck, on the phone. A kookaburra swooped down and grabbed the pizza out of his hand. It was hilarious to see.
My husband went near my mums rooster and this one was a BIG BOY and fully went to attack my husband. He ran out of the caged area and I had to use a low loud voice and stand in a bird pose, like as though I had huge feathers and yelled at the rooster to calm down. He then went back to the chooks.
Wow! I didn’t realize magpies could cut people!!
The pizza story is hilarious!
@@MiraByler yes, they can cause bleeding. But for them to swoop something bad must have happened to them.
Hahaha it is a favourite of mine
The birdhouse is so cute. Also agreed, liner brushes are just the best.
Turned out super cute! Thank you for another awesome video!
I love this! Now I want to go to Michael’s and get one! ❤
It’s very nice looking. I like the light colours 😊
Birds are my favourite animal. I absolutely adore the kookaburra. I have one tattooed on my shoulder ❤️
So adorable!!
i love the color palette, it came out so bright and fun.
Wow your bird story brings back memories. When I was young, I used to go to my grandparents farm. My grandma had ducks and geese. If you got to close to their babies they would his and come at you. My kids laugh at me when I say that they are scary when the hiss and come at you.they never got to experience being in the farm like I did. It makes me sad because being on a farm is an experience that you can’t get anywhere else.
Love your videos. You are My inspiration❤❤
I like this type of videos more it's very comforting😊
I really get along with birds actualy. I love feeding them in the winter though I move a lot so I've not been able to grow too attached to any. Currently my local duo are a pair of magpies who tease my dogs from the fence. There is also a nearby park where I'm pretty friendly with the jackdaws. sometimes I sit in the grass taking a break from cycling and lie my bike next to me and the jackdaws just hop up on my bike and watch me. I definitely want a solid bird friendly setup once I'm able to settle down in one location. A nice wildflower area with a birdbath and some feeders and bird houses.
I really like this one video.❤❤
A few years ago we had a little birdie try to make a nest in the wreath on our front door. I kept hearing this tapping on my door, but when I’d open it, nobody was there. Then one time I looked through the peep hole, and there was this giant bird eye looking back at me. 🤣 Startled me so badly. I mean, still loads better than opening to door to find a big snake sunbathing right on the doorstep, but that only happened twice. 😅
This made me laugh out loud for real! 😂 That's amazing you were able to see it staring right back at you through the peep hole!
@@MiraByler I thought I was imagining things, or had the most skilled and dedicated ding dong ditcher, because it took me like over an hour to figure out what was going on.
I'm starting to overcome my fear of birds, I even held a Tucan last year ❤ but when the weather changes and there are swarms of birds it terrifies me to no end. They make the whole yard black there's so many. That being said my favorite dresses have birds on them and one of my favorite drawings is of birds by my favorite Illustrator Quentin Blake. ❤ your birdhouse is adorable! My 3 year old would love one in our garden! Making a mental note to go to Michaels!
Very cute I love the colors
Love it!❤
Thank you!!
You can use a strong command hook and hang it anywhere in ur garden. U can also use command hooks to hang feeders on ur windows. Maybe the kiddos windows and they'll grow up not being scared of birds. Birds are cool. Related to the 🦖 🦕 I heard. 😅❤ Also, alot of people don't know about bird stickers. It helps them see glass windows and doors. I put planters in front of my sliding door bc hawks were running into it dive bombing the morning doves feeding.
I remembered while watching that one time a bird built its nest my room's window and I was watching it until the eggs hatched and the children flew. It was very emotional and beautiful.
I've always loved birds and my favourite is a flamingo. Though when I was a kid at my grandparents farm there was a turkey there that was almost the same height as me. That was terrifying but after we harvested the turkeys, it tasted delicious. I find it interesting I have three favourite movies involves birds, there's Paulie, The Crow and Fly Away Home. I was also supposed to be in a bird banding course in high school but was denied going in it. Since I moved to Newfoundland I have yet to meet a puffin.
I love that bird house it's so cheery. I think the hook would be too low down for a bird to nest in as they prefer higher up spots to prevent predators getting them.
I’m not a bird-watcher… but I do like to watch birds. Haha A few years back I noticed one female House Sparrow in particular with some unique markings. She had bright white wing feathers which is definitely not normal for the species. This is how I learned what Leucism in animals. I named her Jacey. I loved seeing her every day and getting to observe her spunky personality. The following year she must have had babies because I then spotted a male with her same markings. I named him Sora. But I never got to see Sora grow up because that particular flock moved to a different part of town. It’s strange sometimes… Jacey and Sora weren’t my pets, but I miss them as if they were. 🥹
Awww, thanks for sharing about Jacey and Sora. I love the names you chose for them. 💙🐦
Birds are best observed at a distance. 😊
Agreed!
This was such a cute little spring project. Absolutely adorable and yellow is my favorite color. I love all the pastels. I still have a bird feeder to paint so you've inspired me to do that
Ohhh, I hope you have fun painting it!
Building a Bird house I see Nice 🙂 good job byler.
This is so neat❤
Hope your twins love it 😊
Aww I loved this and reading everyone's bird encounters! I used to volunteer at an animal sanctuary as a teen in the critical care animal hospital we once had an injured goose. Now I'm not sure what happened to the little guy but he did not like us one bit. When we had to change his bedding he would peck like mad and we had to wear these thick protective gloves. Weird thing was once he was in the outside enclosure he kept escaping and coming back to the treatment centre so maybe his pecking was affectionate after all!
Haha!! Wow! He must have really liked you all! 🥹💜🐦
This reminds me that I should go grab some birdhouses now so I can make them into gingerbread houses (both xmas and Halloween versions)!
Mira, I understand about the birds. My daughter was too. I found bird feeders that suction cup to your windows. Birds live them and the kids are fascinated by them.
Oh my goodness!! That is a brilliant idea! I should find some of those for my kids. They would be really into it! Thanks for sharing!
My partner used to live in a port town, and I in a neighbouring one. To get from one to the other we have to take a ferry. The seagulls in the port-town are really something, they are so cheeky and never scared. Worst thing that happened to me was getting pooped on by one while sitting on the ferry. Still had a full school day ahead of me
You're so fun
Ooh I love this! Also love Wingspan, I play it so often with my best friend. Really love it!
Ahh, that makes me so happy to hear you love to play Wingspan with your best friend! It is so fun getting together with the girls and enjoying some coffee and Wingspan!! We love it lol! 💜
Currently have some robins nesting around us. For God only knows why, they like my blue pickup truck. Specifically, they like sitting on the side mirrors, pecking on the side mirror glass and pooing all over the mirror. If that's not enough, they then go after to side windows and hood! I give it to them though, as I like having robins around the home.
Hi, Mira. I love the colors you decided to choose to paint your birdhouse. When I was in high school, I had this bad dream where a duck was pecking me, and one time, when I went to this botanical gardens park with my parents and our dogs, I let go of the leash I had in my hand. My dog Hope was chasing after the ducks when I saw them. I thought I was going to die by them pecking me to death.
Nice job youdid
No fright stories but being on rez most animals flight, crawls, runs, gallops, stomps are seen as signs of ancestors, good medicine, or warnings. Anyway a mockingbird once followed me chirping~ I needed to pay more attention and protect my family.
A sparrow landed on my shirt and stared at me before flying off ~she was giving me hope and friendship
Owl sat on a tree inside the city less than 7ft from me hooting loudly~ there's wisdom, knowledge to be gained or deception. There is some other more darker meanings but I prefer to see the lighter side.
Crow once landed on my hood of my car turned its head at me~I need to transform myself for the positive.
Sorry for the long details but I love your channel. You're channel is very uplifting even when we have dark days. 😊
I am from Australia so we have some different kind of birds. My sister when she was about 12 was attacked by an Emu. She had a bag of candy in her hand or something and the emu wanted them. The best part, it was caught on the old movie cams for everyone to forever remember. You have to remember that emus are probably the same height as a child.
We also have Australian magpies and during nesting season the males often swoop perceived predators. I was riding my bike once from work and another time too work and was attacked by these birds. First time, I got home (as I was almost there when it happened) and my ear was definitely bleeding (they bite you) and the second time on the bike the one bird made three swoops and got me each time. It is very scary, as you're being attacked and bitten by these birds and yet you're also riding your bike at speed and you're trying to not fall off, especially if there are cars near by. Anyway google Australian magpie attacks and you'll see what I mean. I don't hold it against the birds, they are just protecting their babies and I can't fault that.
When I was a kid I was given a parakeet for Christmas. Loved my parakeet. It was green and yellow so called him Lemon Green 😂. Lemon would play with our cat and they would play peek-a-boo with each other around the corner. One day the cat pounced and Lemon took off like usual, however, this time he flew into our chandelier above the dinner table and fell. Died in my hands 😭I was traumatized and bawled for days!
Oh my goodness, that is not the ending I expected! I’m so sorry!
My first time at the beach in Florida we were having lunch and a segull swooped down and stole my entire PB&J sandwich out of my hand lol. Cute video ❤
Wow!!! An entire sandwich!!! 😳😂 these stories have been so entertaining lol
I love how the bird house turned out! ♥
I had a little encounter with a bird of prey (nothing traumatizing though). I was about 11 and I was a huge fan of Harry Potter and I was in my room, window was open and I saw this dark blob coming towards me and I wasn't sure what it was at first. When it got closer and closer I realized it's a bird and I was REALLY hoping for my Hogwarts letter haha (I know xD)! I don't remember exactly what kind of bird it was but it wouldn't stop flying straight towards me. I kid you not - it stopped just a few inches (I was standing at the window) before me and looked directly at me. I just remember a pair of big yellow eyes staring into mine and huge wings- then it flew upwards and vanished. I was stunned and excited and a little disappointed I haven't gotten my letter xD
Here's my terrifying bird story. I got attacked by a huge buzzard when I worked as a vet tech yeara ago. When I tried to feed the buzzard, he came for me like a maniac (which is fair, he was a scared wild animal after all). He grabbed my lower left arm with his talons, while biting into my lower right arm with his beak. I couldn't do much more than stand there with outstretched arms, yelling for help, while this beast of a bird had me in a tight grip. It was such a weird situation to be in! It took ages for one of my colleagues to hear me. When they finally got the bird off me, both my arms were now adorned with quite deep holes. It was a story they hadn't heard before at the emergency room! 😅
I watch ALL your videos! I think your wonderful and love being art fam. I am afraid of birds as well!!! My bird confession😊... Me and my sister had a morning dove as kids and it was so nice to her but it would peck me all the time for no reason. I have like 5 more bird stories. I live in Erie PA and the seagulls on the beach are savages!!! Birds are pretty...from FAR away lol.
Gesso will stop the paint from being sucked up by the wood 😊❤
I think I terrified birds more as a kid more than they terrified me. I was always fascinated by birds and I would always try to chase them around and pick them up, but my mom always told me “no.” And I’m glad she did. And I also remember I had a cat who would hunt birds and bring us a dead bird as a welcome home gift whenever we got home from a trip
I love birds, my mom had some when I was younger, so I don’t have an issue with them. However, my husband is TERRIFIED of birds.
When he was about 6 years old, his grandmother had a parrot and this parrot bit him on the ear, almost completely piercing his ear. He still has this place on his ear that looks like a piercing gone wrong, a scar.
He has a very big fear of birds and one time when we were dating, (we live near the beach) a bunch of seagulls were in between us and the his car, on the driver side. He stopped me going to the passenger door, where there was no birds, so that he could enter the car through the passenger side and crawl to the drivers side.
I watched this whole thing in amazement and really realized how afraid he was. I then went round to the drivers side, once he was safely in the car, and I walked right up to the birds until they flew off. He just shook his head and laughed!
I have been pooped on a few times, and that’s not fun, but ultimately, I love birds, I just know that I will never get to own any (though maybe that’s exactly what my husband needs, me getting some smaller, cute little fluttery birds, not a parrot).
Needless to say, we don’t get to have any fun parrot experiences at amusement parks, zoos or down on the boardwalk!
The way I LITERALLY gasped when you said beach and seagull and then Cheeto!! I feel so much closer to you now!!! Haha
My first bad encounter was I was young and at the beach and sharing some cheezits with a couple seagulls. They multiplied quickly and I RAN OUT OF CHEEZITS! They were not pleased and i had to submerge myself in water just to get them to go away! Been terrified ever since
And yes geese are terrifying!!
LOL this sounds both overwhelming and terrifying 😂😂
Im not scared of birds, like at all, but I was brought up to be wary of swans (repeated was told as a child that a swan can and will break your arm - which to be fair, they can), and there was a super weird period of time when i was in primary school where like 6/ 7 kids were attacked by seagulls who wanted to steal their snacks, like in the playground
Seagulls are so shocking sometimes 😳😳😳😳
Oh, you've reached bird identification book level of adulting. Welcome to the club! 😆🐦🦉🐦⬛
LOL thank you! Excited to learn!!
Ooo! I've also had 3 birds, 3 different times, fly in my house and get stuck. They'd charge the windows, because birds can't see glass. It was kinda terrifying, but most I just felt bad for the birds. They all eventually got out though.😂
I was afraid of birds for the longest time. The day after my dad passed away my best friend and I took a walk and we ended up finding and baby pigeon stuck in the bridge grate and I took it home and kept it until it could even fly. Tried to release it back into the wild and it wouldn't leave me so I kept it. Until I decided to take it to my mom's farm and he ended up living in the barn. Ever since then I've got used to birds and absolutely adore them.
One time as i was little a friend of mine and i played catch and got to near at a swan he was pissed and followed us for a few minutes luckily he/or she didn't got us and left us alone.
Another time i was at the beach with my mom and i got a soft ice. The woman warned us of the seagulls but my mom went on Top of a hill to find a chair to sit. I followed her knowing that there is danger in the sky. In the moment i remembered her of the womans warning a felt air and than a wing at my face. Shocked i looked down at my ice and there was a carving in it from the birds beak. Everyone around me laughed even the seagulls. (Sorry if something is writen wrong. Im from Germany)
But i love birds they where my special interest as a kid and even as a teen
Wow!! That seagull was brave lol!
@@MiraByler yes that's what i taught to after it happened
omg geese are SO mean, lol. I was at Whetsone the other day doing plein air with my puppy & the geese were in a MOOD, lol. I haven't liked birds since I watched the movie Birds by Alfred Hitchcock when I stayed home sick from school once when I was kid. it was a full trauma experience, lol.
Cute!
I thought you meant you were scared of songbirds, but having negative experiences from a gull, swan, and goose isn't surprising--they're just aggressive. One time in college I was taking a walk with my MK (missionary kid) friend who grew up in Peru around the little pond. We came past a tree and all of a sudden there was a goose--I think sitting on a nest, even. I gasped and was like "Back up! Back up!" My friend was very confused about this sudden danger 😅
Okay, it's crazy, but my family stumbled across a red bellied woodpecker that was stunned on the road when we went out for a drive in the mountains. We wanted to help it, so we took it into our car to place it somewhere safe off and away from the road. But it "came too" while we were driving it and started flying around in the car while my dad was driving!!! We ended up stopping and opening the doors to our van, but it wouldn't come out. It was hiding under the gas pedal! Finally got it out, though. So, Lesson learned.
What do you use to seal I used a spray selent and all my paint is pealing😊
Oh no!!! Sealants can be so tricky. I use any sealant that says it’s good for acrylics. Some of them specify if it’s for oils, etc.
Mod podge also works!
I'm not a bird person either. Prob stems from the time I was a toddler. My mom, brother, and uncle went to the El Paso zoo. It was Xmas eve or real close, so it was slow. The emus were used to people feeding them, but they hadn't seen much action until I walked up with my popcorn in hand. It ran up and reached it's head right over the fence and pecked me right in the face/eye.
I was ok, I don't think it even left a mark, but still terrifying for a toddler who just wanted to see the emu 😂
I have a bird confession.... when I was little my family and I visited a zoo here in Australia which had some emus wondering around. We decided to hit the picnic spot an have lunch. I was enjoying a small meat pie and an emu thought he would enjoy it too so it started to chase me for my meat pie. I ran like the clappers but of course emus can run very fast too. I got so scared I ended up throwing the pie at the emu along with a few choice words. Don't much like being around emus, especially near picnic spots.
When I was a child I was playing in my front yard enjoying my day and out of no where bird poop landed on my head and I stopped in my tracks and touched it to see what it was and immediately started crying as my sibling started hysterically laughing at me and then I ran inside to my mom 😌😅
I don't have any scary bird stories, other than being chased by geese! However when I was like 12 I had 6 pet ducklings I raised in my bedroom till old enough to swim out on my parents pond. Ronnie, Zues,Frog,Sarah,Mary and Jason were their names. Stupid neighbor dogs got them all. 😢
birbs are our friends! ok maybe not so much the little red robins here. they just look like they hate everyone😝 (seagulls can get pretty grabby tho)
very pretty cute little house🥰
Seagulls have so much audacity to be swooping down and snatching! 😂
they will take a whole fish supper if you dont watch out here! o.0
Swallows can build on porches
I have this cute goose story. I walk away from geece to let them know i am not trying to invade their space. and i semi get nervous when they walk towards me. I could see about 10-15 feet away, there was this goose walking towards me in my lane. I saw a person walking next to the goose side by side, but then I saw the goose walk in front of the person to cross the road to using the ramp crosswalk to be near his goose friend. everything about that was super adorable..... and he waddled away waddle waddle.
omg i'm terrified of birds too (but i am not warming up to them and i dont think i ever will lol)🤗😅 years ago (i'm saying around 15 or so), a family friend who lives in a rural area and had a lot of land owned a rooster. we'd always been warned that he was terruotiral, so we never messed with him. one time while we were over there, my sister and i stayed outside to pet the horse and feed him some snacks. our friend and mom had gone in the house for something. i can't remember exactly what happened, but next thing i knew, the rooster was charging us. i picked my sister up (she was probably 5 or so) while screaming lol then the rooster flies at us and lands on my sister with his spurs in her leg! my friend and mom come running out of the house and get the rooster away from us lol my sister wasn't injured too badly, but she had the indent of where the sours went in. our friend called us that night to say her and her husband had rooster for dinner😂 i didn't think it was that traumatizing at the time tbh but as ive gotten older, my fear and just general dislike of birds has only gotten stronger, particularly chickens and geese lol
i always feel stupid saying birds are one of my biggest fears bcuz ppl don't often think of birds as scary lol but it makes me happy to know i'm not the only one with this fear😂
Your story about the swan reminded me instantly of that one Gilmore Girls episode. Quote Jess Mariano : "I was attacked by a swan. Okay, you happy? A stupid swan." Season 3, Episode 14 if you wanna check it out :)
When I was younger, I worked at a home improvement store and having birds in the lumber area was not uncommon. One day we ended up with a sparrowhawk that had flown in, and it was so stressed, It was diving at all the customers we had to call animal control to come get it.
Oh my goodness, that sounds like a day to remember 😂😳
Lol I had a pigeon poop on my head once in Brazil and also yesterday discovered that a woodpecker has pecked a hole in the side of my house and has built a nest. Me and birds don’t always mesh very well. Lol.
When was kid I got pop on by bird on my head and hair.
no scary but sad bird story happened this autumn. little redstart bumped into our balcony door. he drank a few drops of water and cuddled in my hands; but I couldn´t help him, just hold him and keep him warm until his soul flew away.
Not a scary bird story at all buttttttt… When i was 6 i tamed a street pigeon that would sit on our window sill. I fed him and at some point he would eat from my hands and would even let me pet him. Pigeons are actually really soft lol. When i was seven he didn‘t return anymore so i assume he died around that time. He was the chonkiest of birbs and we loved each other. We would just chill together at the window and enjoy each other‘s company. At one point he even fell asleep on the window sill inside our apartment.
He was the cutest and i now have a tattoo of him. His name was rex and i still remember him every day
Also lowkey scary but very funny, recently my dog got attacked by a pigeon. Nothing happened and nobody got hurt, so i can laugh a bit, but i have never seen that happen before because pigeons are usually very peaceful creatures. That did make me laugh at my dog‘s expense though. He‘s fine and still likes to run after pigeons though!
Watching “The Birds” movie was enough to scare anyone. 😂
Haha, I am very curious now! Never heard of this movie!
It’s an Alfred Hitchcock movie from 1963. It won’t help you to watch! 😂
Check out Cornell labs bird sound identifier. It’s free and you and twins will learn what birds are marking those wonderful sounds.
Wow, thanks for the recommendation. This sounds like something we would use. I will check it out!
This is not weird or terrifying but……we all know it’s spring time and we noticed a bird’s nest in our wreath hanging on our front door with four eggs, well 3 babies hatched and have flown away and now there are another five new eggs in the nest! Momma is always near and flies off whenever we come home. I’m taking it down after this group hatches and no more wreaths for a while!
A friend of minerals nesting (Eurasian) blue tits that come back every year, and for 3 years or so they have a small camera in there so they can watch the eggs hatch and see when they will fly out after. There are birdhouses (and also birdfeeders) with the camera build in. Not a big birth person, butbstill love seeing it.
Was attacked by a seagull 2 years ago, those got to confident around people always feeding them, so they would just come and get it themselves at that point.
I think it’s hilarious that we both just bought the same liner brush
That is awesome!
If I see a birds nest molded to a some kind of wall, roof or a surface, I would quess it´s a swallow.
But I live in Finland, so I don´t know for sure what kinds of birds you have there...
Owls have these tendencies to stare at me when I´m hiking.
A few years back I went to the woods, and an owl was sitting on a branch just next to my ear, so close it almost touched it...
It was just staring at me and kept weird noises.
That was a really creepy happening.
And it´s not a first time owls come and stare me up close.
When I was a child a goose bit me. As an adult my husband, me and our daughter were in a boat and a swan came to attack. Our daughter was three and now calls swans "Devil Chickens". However my most recent encounter was yesterday and a bird flew down like it was going to attack my head but did not.
I went to the beach while I was eating chicken wing a seagull came out nowhere and snap it out of my hand 😮i was in shock and mad because ibwas enjoying my wing 😅
As a Canadian I have many times been charged and hissed at by Canadian Geese (aka cobra chickens). 99% of birds don't bother me but geese always put me on edge when they are around and close.
For real, geese are feisty!
When I was young, my parents had ducks and geese. The geese would chase me and peck the backs of my legs. I never liked going outside because of them.
When it's mating seasons for the, necessary but seriously creepy, buzzard. They hang around in crazy numbers. My dog yard was mating dating central. I have 3 very large choc labs and they hung about in their houses til they left. This went on for weeks.
Wow! That sounds really creepy! Were your dogs afraid of them or intrigued by the entire thing?
I was napping on the couch. Then I was awakened by a bird that flew right into my window. As soon as it hit, I jumped so high out of a sound sleep. I have never been so scared. Even went outside to see if the bird was okay. It took awhile for it fly.
Aww. Glad it was okay though!