Your relation to birds

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I have gotten a recent obsession with photographing ducks, that counts? and Aspie.

One of my Duck Pics I got some new ones to add to my Deviant art.

I am not interested in birds at all. I enjoy all forms of invertebrates and especially insects. I like carnivorous plants as well, but birds and mammals are uninteresting to me.

I used to keep a couple of Lovebirds.

One would perch on my knee whilst we would watch the TV and my leg bounces up and down on its own and the little birds shoulders would be bouncing up and down as well and if I stopped my leg, the little bird would turn around to look at me and give a little tweet to tell me to carry on with the leg bouncing.

Amazing how such small creatures can be so intelligent.

It would sit on my shoulder when I had my breakfast and would reach around to take a piece of cereal I would hold out between my lips.

Heres a youtube of these lovely birds

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsQEmJh1pnk[/youtube]

Hmm, I am actually HFA not Aspie ( do not really like that word) but yes. I even have four birds that live with me full time.
A lovebird, a Jenday Conure, an Edwards Lorikeet, & my Mother's Ecclectus parrot.
I also feed and watch hummingbirds..

Sincerely,
Matthew

PS.
Not to mention they are actually small dinosaurs, so it takes me back to my first obsession.

I posted yes, but it was more when I was younger. I got totally obsessed with birds for awhile.

Birds really creep me out. I find them kind of interesting but I don't like to get too close. When I was around three years old an ibis snatched a sandwich out of my hand; if you can imagine a bird about as tall as you are with a beak about as long as your arm stealing your lunch you can imagine how scared I was!

Love ravens and crows.

I like to imitate crow calls. Crows are qoool, because large and black. They stand on some kind of tall reedy plant in my neighborhood.

I've never had any strong feelings towards native birds in one direction or another. I appreciate them greatly, and I think they're beautiful, but I've never really gotten into birding. I did try it once or twice... to be honest, it kind of hurt my head trying to focus on the itty bitty birds through the binoculars. I also live in a suburban area, so the native bird population around me is of course not too diverse. I also don't drive, so I don't have many opportunities to visit national forests.

However, I'm a huge lover of domesticated parrots. I grew up around them- my mom even once bred some in my childhood home. They're my favorite pet, other than rats. I think that the intelligence of both animals is what attracts me to them. It's not that I value them more highly than other animals- they're just my personal favorites.

Also, I greatly admire crows. I know they can be pests, but they're the closest thing to parrots around here. Just look up "crow intelligence", you'll never look at them the same way again.

I selected "No - and I'm Aspie".

I can't bear anything flapping around my face/head. That also applies to moths, butterflies, any winged insect or bats etc.

Birds like crows, ravens/rooks etc. seem evil, I don't like their caws.

There's a weird thing though. This will turn some of you off. I am very open to the spiritual side of things, and I have had some strange experiences with birds.

Once, when I was living abroad, I was visiting the apartment of a friend one evening (it was dark), the entrance to which was enclosed in a hallway that led to hers and the other apartments. We were having a really serious conversation about the meaning of life and death, some heavy stuff, and at the point at which we discussed spirits all of a sudden a bird appeared out of nowhere flapping frantically and thudding against the glass of her door. Bear in mind this was night time when birds are sleeping, to our knowledge there had never been an experience of any bird flying into the hallway (and it really was virtually all enclosed from the outside this hallway and she was at the furthest end from the bit that was open) and it was at the exact moment that we hit the most spiritual part of the conversation. I have read that birds are said to be carriers of spirits or connected to spirits. It came out of nowhere and made us both scream our heads off.

After my dad passed away, I came across the information about birds being connected with spirits and after I read this information I noticed that jackdaws were constantly around me, and they are very distinctive because of their size, colouring and noise. Being highly observant I would have noticed them before just even in passing, but never had. Since he passed away, and despite moving house, I keep seeing jackdaws and hearing their distinctive caws.

One time I was working at a temp job in this office place. The window to the office overlooked a tiny concrete courtyard which was enclosed by walls on all sides. The office was very quiet. At some point I looked up and noticed a pigeon outside the window. It just stood there looking in at me. I thought this was nothing initially, but every time I looked up it was still there, just looking directly at me. The window was shut, there was no food around or cooking smells to attract it, it was uninjured. It stayed there for a very long time, just looking directly at my eyes. It was the weirdest thing, for a wild animal with no reason to hang around, to be there for the longest time not diverting either its gaze or attention elsewhere. It wasn't even walking around picking at things like birds do, just watching me.

...just to add, that whilst I think swans are elegant and striking to look at, one bit my hand when I was little, so I'm not overly keen on getting too close to them!

I liked chickadees when I was a kid because they'd eat seeds out of our hands. They tickled.

I've tended to be aware of crows and ravens since I was a kid, since we saw ravens at the dump on a weekly basis. And crow is my personal totem. (It makes sense when I think of it as the Nordic equivalent of a vulture.)

And I was thrilled with my one owl sighting, plus the time I got to watch a grouse beat his wings. (I really wanted to see this after reading the description in Ernest Thompson Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known.)

I'm always thrilled when I recognize a species but in general I am so uninterested in them that I recognize very few species. My mother, on the other hand, is a birdwatcher and has always had feeders so she can watch them. (She isn't autistic.)

I think I find them more interesting when I know more about them, but they don't particularly draw me in.

I love birds. when I was a child I cared for baby robins that had fallen from their nests. I raised 3 of them. I was amazed that they each had very distinct personalities. Two of them returned after migrating south for the winter and flew to my porch and ate out of my hand. I was their mother and they remembered me. I have tall trees around my home now that attract many species of birds. I love to feed them and other wild animals that wander into my yard including raccoons, skunks, and opossums. Stray cats too.

I am a fan of bird-kind, for certain. There are many species around the university campus where I work. The common sparrows, magpies, robins, crows, pigeons, sea gulls, Canadian geese in summer, ducks and loons, woodpeckers, flocks of starlings. Also some more rare varieties; hawks and peregrine falcons. I have seen blue jays on occasion. Some sort of sandpiper as well.

Truth be told I greatly envy them.