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YAY Ru!!! And hooray for you @allseeingewe for being so awesome :)

I used to own a burger restaurant and we made fresh home cut fries. I had a lady who came often and would eat her burger and get the fries to go. After so many times I had to ask, and she told me they were to feed the local ravens, that she spoke to all the time, and apparently they spoke back to her. From then on, the fries were on the house!! :)

So glad that Ru is doing well! Are the mom and dad still around?

I love that story!

They are still nearby and stop by the yard to say hello to us a few times a week. They've finally accepted that I'm taking care of their baby and have stopped dive bombing me.

Oh I'm so glad! I know you are taking such good care of Ru, but I've worried about his parents; they are such smart birds, so it was just a matter of time before they trusted you. Did you know that ravens never forget a human face? So cool :)

OMG, yes! Did you see the documentary where the group of researchers wore a mask while being nasty to the birds on a university campus? Amazing stuff! The offspring of the original birds knew the face even though (I am pretty sure) they hadn't personally seen it. Seems they teach each other through the generations.

Yes! Such amazing creatures. I think Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds really did a disservice to so many birds :)

If he can not ever fly, then he fell into the best place possible. You are a good soul. I know you will take good care of him.

Trust me, I'm the lucky one in this relationship.

I can see it now........
Halloween, Ewe with an eye patch and Ru in a parrot costume!
The crazy parrots in my neighborhood imitate the crows. It's the strangest thing. Not sure if they are mocking them or trying to fit in. The parrots out number the crows (an aviary caught fire several years ago and they released the parrots to save them).
Just now saw the video, love the bird tree. Very intelligent creatures. I guess he won't ever be in the wild the shootem up games with Manny is cool (I didn't realize he had that bad of an injury

This was Trixzee my rescued Hummingbird. Broken shoulder from falcon attack. I had to have her put down, but what a joy she was when she was here.

I have a really (really really) old polaraid pic of me holding a little humming bird I rescued when I was a kid. It lived about an hour after I took it away from my cat. I was so sad there was nothing I could do to help it. It broke my heart. I gave it a funeral- my mom (who knew what was going to happen when I "saved" it) attended the service along with my barbies so there would be at least some loved-ones in the audience. My mom was a smart lady. Poor little thing... looking back, it would have been more humane to let the cat eat it instead of bleeding to death slowly. Had I known then what I know now, I would have done the job a lot better.

I can not tell you how many coffins I have built and funerals I have attended for my nieces pet rats. Some day someone will dig them up and say WTF!!!
I have built many a coffin for Barbies too! Actually there is pretty good money in Barbie death and bondage items. I have a lot of strange customers.
I had one hummingbird I saved by removing the bee off of its beak. I thought it was dead. I blew in its face and it opened its little eyes, looked around, looked at me and flew up in air then back down towards my face. That little bird spent the rest of its life hanging out at the feeder I have outside my bedroom window.
I am working on some miniature crows I will send you a pic when I finish one.

LMFAO
I love how she runs down the hill

We had a veritable parrot and chicken population explosion after Katrina in NOLA. Some pet birds escaped the flood and just started multiplying in the abandoned city. It was the Summer of the Bird that year. To this day, there are whole neighborhoods that make up their territories and you have to cross the street when you cross their path or they go on the offensive! So many dangers in this swamp!!

Birds can be brutal. I was trying to photograph the baby falcon who the parents pushed from the nest and they have to fly to get back up there. I was there with my camera the these two birds come at me talons out.
A few years later I was in my garage and I heard a strange noise and looked up and there was a baby falcon sitting on my wood rack. After the last time I knew mom and dad weren't far so I decided to go in the house. They are very protective and keep the young up to three years.

Nice you already got Ru solving puzzles!

It took him 9 minutes to get the lid off! He's also learning some new words. Right now we're working on "grumble grumble squall" and "don't wanna".

Sooooooo jelly and enjoying living vicariously through you!!!

smuuuuuuuuush

@karenfoster you were one of Ru's first steemit friends. Thought you'd enjoy seeing this.

I love how excited he got spilling out the worms while I had the lid off for a sec. Look at that face! Wook addeet!

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Widdew baby deathlord is cocky!