It reminds a weird encounter I made 2 months ago. It’s off-topic, but well.
I was on a walk with a friend and a magpie landed on a stone wall just next to us. We stopped and looked at it, and it was doing the same. It was very close, less than 50cm from us. After looking at each other for a while, I took a picture.
The beautiful bird didn’t fly away, so I tried to pet him gently on the head (yeah, I know, I shouldn’t do that).
The magpie didn’t seem to like that and, lightning-fast, pinched and maintained a bit my finger in its beak before releasing me.
Then it probably silently judged me, and then only after a while, flew away.
What an interesting encounter.
