Quote Originally Posted by mendhak View Post
Not only did they get the sunrise wrong, they ignored their flight instincts to fly off when startled.
They were true to their instincts, they just weren't startled. In fact, they were expecting you to do that.

A couple years back I was doing something on the computer in the middle of the afternoon when a faint sound made its way into my consciousness. It sounded like a faint quack, which I knew couldn't be right, as I live in a desert with no water within a mile of me. I figured it was the neighbors doing something weird, yet the faint quack was repeated every fifteen seconds or so for so long that I finally had to go see what it was. When I opened the door, there was a duck on my doorstep, and its buddies were on the other side of the hedge. I swear those feathery bustards were laughing.

So if I can be doorbell ditched by a duck, you can be taunted by songbirds.