How to get a wild bird to trust you? Blackbird comes to my garden and i have a chance befriend him.
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- One day I was outside in my garden and i saw a wild bird around ( in this case Blackbird ) . I tried to get closer every day but it took me over 2 and half months to befriend him. His name is "HEY MAN" and he is coming back to my garden every day in the morning and evenings.
Steps:
Be a patient
it will take a long time to get there
move slowly
you need 10-15 min every day
start feeding from 10-15 m until a wild bird comes closer to you
it may take 3-4 weeks
next step is to get a wild bird closer than 5 meters
keep feeding and start to get closer up to 1 meter
when you get closer than 1 meter then is just 2 weeks away to the final
start feeding bird from your hand
never try to catch a bird otherwise you can start again and again
ok. so good luck and let me know if you have any success.
Thanks for watching
DDNZ
there is something special about blackbirds
Agreed. I love the way they bob around the place looking for food. Great singers too.
I love the way you take time for these small messengers from heaven. Your reward: their trust and companionship. Thank you for posting!
It only took about a week and now Mr Blackbird comes right out side my back door 😃 he even comes to the dining room window & stares at me until I come to the back door to feed him.
Only about a week. Lucky you 🙂. My Mr. Blackbird was too scared and it took me longer than one week. But still i had fun and every day he comes closer and closer .
@@ddnz2959 Since, I posted I’ve got another 3 Male Blackbirds coming as soon as I open my back door. The original one even lands on the bathroom window sill chirping & starting at me through the open window until I go downstairs and feed him 😃
Awesome. Now you have full time job. Feeding blackbirds 🙂. I don't have so much luck. And no many blackbirds around my house after summer . All of them gone . I hope they come back after winter.
@@ddnz2959 actually, i have one that comes knocking at my window everyday but i ndver fed him in particular, he just have some of my bird seeds but even if there's still some, he still comes to say hello!
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Fantastic. Love the way he isnt even concerned with the lawnmower!
He is ok . I have to feed him every morning before i go to work and after work . He is always outside in my garden and waiting if i open a sliding door on my room . Then he knows now is feeding time . 😄 He is always around. At least i have fun.
My mum had a really tame one in her garden when I was a kid. She would sunbathe on her garden bed with an apple or some berries, and the bird would fly down, perch on the bed and take the berries from her hand, or peck at the apple. He was a lovely lil chap, but his wife was much more nervous, and would never come anywhere near us.
they love berries
That Blackbird represents my feelings about McDonalds. It goes against all my natural instincts, but despite this I will still get close enough for easy food.
In 2020 a black bird pair decided to make a nest in my garden so I started to feed them and bond with them and over time the baby black birds grew and fledged out of the nest into my garden then all of them went away for a while then in early 2023 the black bird pair came back so I started to feed them again and now they have made another nest in my garden and since I'm 13 I still go to school and the black bird pair has now started to follow me all the way to my bus stop which is about a 10-20 minute walk from my house but they still get a bit spooked when I go out to feed them.Also me feeding them has also brought many other birds to my bird table as I have seen pigeons,magpies,crows,ravens,tits, sparrows, and starlings. It's really fun to see them all eating at the same time.
UPDATE:So the baby birds that they had in 2020 are now adults too and they follow the bus I get on all the way to school and crowd around me when I get to a certain point where there is normally noone else. I love them so much.
you're a nice person :)
@@bnika33:)
Ravens in a garden... that would be incredibly strange.
Wow, i would like that
I have one comes to my door. He actually came in a couple of times last year. He's normally waiting for me in the morning, but if he's not there, I whistle and he turns up. He's now bringing the kids lol.
I hoped some people achieved this kind of bond...i have one coming on his own at my window and i wistle to him, i do not know if that if why he comes but he is absolutely not afraid
I will try feeding him with parrot seeds, then if he accepts i will find some worms
This is so cool!! I didn't think this would be possible. I love blackbirds they are so full of character. Befriending one would be amazing.
You have to be a very patient. it takes months. Lately I started feeding a female blackbird from 10 meters away and she is coming back every day. Now i can feed her closer than 10 meters . Before if i opened a sliding door on my room she was gone. So maybe another 1 - 2 months and i will have 2 friends in my garden 😅 who knows haha.
Absolutely love the video and blackbirds are one of the best species! There are several in my garden ans one of them has such a quirky behaviour. They are so entertaining to watch.
Hi. Thanks for your comment . Yes . They are so entertaining to watch. I really like them. So much fun. 🙂
I so wish we had these beautiful birds in Texas! I love listening to them sing.
Amazing!
While sitting with chickens as i feed them in the morning Mrs Blackbird darts around my feet and the chooks. Yesterdsy her two fledglings darted in and stood while she filled her crop and transferred to them ... datent move a muscle but so close
Well done MATE WELL DONE. Cheers Andre South Australia. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏✌✌✌✌✌🙏
I’ve got a black bird that comes every day to see me it’s so lovely she makes a beautiful sound just to let me know he’s by me
Yes, they are usually friendly . If you feed them, they are coming back. I have every day the same 3 birds in my garden.
My blackbird his name is millo and he follows me around I had him ever since he was a baby
So sweet… I’m gonna try
Yep . if you have lot of patience then try it . 👍 it's so much fun .
We name all Blackbirds Carl for some reason haha and after throwing food from my door just for Carl while making tut tut tut noises he knows it's for him! He now comes down and waits about 50cm away as i place it down and walk away. Im so close to him feedingfrom my hand 😊
I tamed my black bird cutting a raisin while they had young to feed .he later came into my green house while I was planting my plants & place a tit bit for him.
So inspiring to see people like me that create bonds with birds.😊 Really like your channel ❤🎉😊😊 Thank you for this video😊
I would love to do this, but I don't think there are that many worms in my whole street! 😄
They are lovely. I'm getting hungry watching all these yummy worms ;)
Thats a very young blackbird only just mature,thats why it is still in feed me Dad motion .
I started out with one couple. In the spring they came with their offspring to feed on mealworms. At the moment I have about 8 blackbirds in my garden. The problem is that the get aggressive to each other when I feed them. I distribute the feed in the garden to prevent them to get aggressive to each other. I also stay around them until they have their fill because the starlings would eat everything. There is a bird, a thrush that comes to me when I call him (or her).
Beautiful ...
Thanks 🙂
I had a Robin eating from my ha d on The first day and am not kidding. I call him Robbie. Xxxx
Awesome.👍 I took me couple of weeks to get closer to my friend 🐦 . But still made it .
I swear, every other day i catch myself whistling at birds and wishing i knew how to get closer to them, but i never actually looked up what to do
Just the otherday, a Robin got stuck in a net on my property (ive taken care of it since) and it broke my heart how scared he was the whole time i was cutting him free (though it was kinda cute to see him bite at my fingers like that would hurt). Im lucky i could hold him well enough to get the net off, but yea, it's time to take this seriously and start shooting my shot with the birds in my yard... the worst they can do is say no...
I will try to tame one but i think i can not do it...i live in city and there is one comming every time i open my window and he sings and i enjoy and wistle back...i do not feed him/her
Probably will start with some perrot seeds to see if he/she accepts. And i do not have a garden to get worms...
But i will give it a try since he/she is so friendly, their nest is few meters away and i hope we become friends
I love animals, and have a particular fondness for eurasian blackbirds, but humans have some pretty interesting emergent behaviour too if you consider them just being any other wild animal trying to survive.
I had a brown trasher to eat out of my hand❤❤❤he has not comr yet this year
Love it 🎉
Thanks 🙂
thank you
Welcome
3:36 i feel bad for the worm he saw his friend die infront of his eyes and trying to escape
😒
i hâte worms
POV: you just got done playing AC Valhalla
What do you feed a wild bird? Maybe a dove ?
Made friends with a black bird, but the worms are not best pleased with him...
How will I know it’s the same bird? (Not to be mean)
Once you feed him , he will come closer to you and more often to your garden. He will be waiting around to feed him. One day I had 4 blackbirds in my garden and i exactly knew which one is the one.
any way to befriend a bird if you don't have a garden? I've been trying to befriend jackdaws that like the field somewhat close by, but they're skittish. There's many people always walking by so I don't feel they are even able to associate me with the guy that threw some food to them some time ago.
Same here, i do not have garden, i live in city... so i do not know if its possible to befriend one. Also - no worms in my apartment, lol
There is one blackbird coming on its own under my window, he is not afraid, he just sings and it seems he likes wistling back (or she).
... i will give it a try ... try with some seeds, if he/she accepts then i will try to find bugs/worms etc.
@@sinisak.138 good luck! I have a pair of blackbirds living in the backyard of my apartment building, too. I think they have a nest here. Haven't been able to find it yet despite the trees and bushes being pretty short :D
Please can someone help me.I love blackbirds and last year I kind of rescued one who was baby after their tree taken down.He and I sang together and I recorded him everyday. Its been hot this week heatwave and I put food out. I saw him try chase off a couple blackbirds who were eating his food and they refused to go.Then he flew off.This morning this new one was singing on the roof and I cant hear my blackbird and he didnt come to feed today. Also a falcon flew in and scared the baby sparrows. Its a tiny garden only room for mine so what can I do. Have they scared him off or is it the heat and he is in the trees as I live near a common. Shall I carry on feeding the other blackbirds or are they wanting my garden ? Because of the singing Im a little worried ?they trying to move in and push him out ? as alot of people taking trees down .Im so upset he didnt come for his food as usual.And worried where he is.What can I do to help this situation as I love blackbirds. In this heatwave a lot of birds squirels are hungry and even that falcon was scarey, the way it swoshed into the sparrows I feel so protective of my blackbird as we sing together hes special.😩 Im really concerned as usually,I hear him in garden early morning
Its hot and I know they moult and maybe lay low as my robin is hardly seen.
I got a 🐦
So what if the bird never comes back
Usually, they come back . They are nesting not too far from your house or garden.
Thank you for the tips I’m trying to catch a bird 🐦 right now thanks
i have done it to doves
they even fly up to mu window to poke me for some food
you may check my video's
I watched your video's. 2 came closer and eat from your window. Also i watched other video when you were feeding the bird with bread 👌 . nice
Ahhh.. I wanted to get rid of them, they are ruining my garden and chasing all other birds away !
Yes. They are very aggressive when they nesting and chasing all the other birds around
@@ddnz2959 Our problem is just that, no other birds in the garden. And the blackbird ruins each new seeded patch I've made all year. They've also reduced the earthworm population... If I drop compost outside, day after birds have tilled it and eaten the worms that showed up for the compost.
I don't have so many problems with blackbirds around my house yet. They don't care about my garden. When I seeded patch in my garden I used coated seeds. So they never touch them and grass is growing. Otherwise they would.
@ddnz2959 have a feeder just for them. Put it to another part of your garden. Close to where they nest if possible, to stop them needing go venture in. That's if it's do-able in your garden. Most birds are territorial when nesting. I have a raven and a robin who spend more time and energy chasing and fighting other birds than they do eating and gaining energy.
@@jl_nwestie That's doable, the garden is half an acre. Thank you for the tip. I've noticed though that the blackbirds sing beautifully. I've also covered my seeding patch with fiber cloth, and they don't go under it. Started using bird netting everywhere too.. I have about 26 black birds in my garden.....
Don't betray that bird or he will become like my pet dead chicken
Sorry about your pet chicken