The birds on the balcony that found TikTok fame - BBC News
Katrina Smith was living a city lifestyle in Melbourne, Australia, when Covid hit. Fearing a lockdown, she packed up and rented a place on the Surf Coast of Victoria.
She started posting videos of the birds that showed up on her balcony. Those birds quickly found online fame, notching up millions of views on TikTok and Instagram.
Now she's left with the dilemma of whether or not to return to the city at all.
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It's so nice to see a joyous, happy, feel good story amongst the not so happy news.
@TotalGAMIX
3 жыл бұрын
Agree
How fortunate you are. Those birds are the most beautiful I have ever seen! Lucky lady!!
A big G'day from Australia to all our UK and overseas friends :)
@SteveXNYC
3 жыл бұрын
What going on?. You guys dopeing or hoping
@truevegas
3 жыл бұрын
@@SteveXNYC Say what? 😂 maybe both idk lol
@truevegas
3 жыл бұрын
@Mot Kaou Nice, but we have 2 minute noodles where I live bud. You should try them 😉
Australia: countless awful things that _will_ kill you Also Australia: super friendly, cheerful birbs
@jimimased1894
3 жыл бұрын
Actually most deaths in oz are from European bees, true story
@mehere8038
2 жыл бұрын
@@jimimased1894 actually horses cause more deaths than bees, but yup, European honey bees cause more deaths than Aussie natives like snakes
I'm in centre of Sydney and all those species of birds and more visit my balcony, they come and say hello from the bushes on the sides of the street when I go for a walk, they come right up when you sit in the park. The things is, nobody feeds them, it's not about food, there is plenty of food on the trees even in the centre of our cities, they are just playful and curious. Different species hang out together, tease each other, clearly birds have a sense of humour. The thing about the centre of Sydney is that nobody has cats, so they have no preditors and they are just so confident.
@karene.4196
2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, this woman DOES feed the birds and encourages them to climb on her to get food. She's a fraud.
@tc1817
2 жыл бұрын
Nobody feeds them. hahahahhahahahahha Right. The birds just want to be friends.
@seanbayley7452
2 жыл бұрын
@@karene.4196 I didn't hear her say she doesn't feed them so what If she does and these birds come round without feeding them everywhere along the east coast of Australia
@karene.4196
2 жыл бұрын
@@seanbayley7452 This is such an old post ... she's already been reported to the relevant authorities in her district who were not impressed with her feeding them. So ... I don't know what to tell you, other than: she's habituated these birds to human interference, all for the clicks. Sorry to disappointed. Sincerely sorry. 😞
@bestuish
Жыл бұрын
Sydney in your description sounds more lovely than heaven 😄
Absolutely enchanting. You are so lucky to live in paradise.
It reminds me of my birds who stayed with me for 3 months, during day time they took a flight with wild birds and came back home... This continued for 3 months... After that they just disappeared and never came back! 😐 I suspect they got killed or they have gone with their wild friends. That's my childhood memories
A Big Happy Smile From Southern California for finally finding your birds..what a Pleasure!🎈
The birds of Australia are amazing. Back in the day, when I visited for a six month bicycle tour I'll never forget the sound of the Kookaburra's call in the morning when I woke up in my tent while primitive camped in the bush. The huge flocks of pink and grey Galah's were also memorable. Pretty amazing country, but sadly, they are right on the front lines of global warming (as they were for ozone depletion).
@anthonyobrien6832
2 жыл бұрын
What
@Glenn-ei3xp
Жыл бұрын
Absolute garbage
I love this so much!
@CatsInHats-S.CrouchingTiger
3 жыл бұрын
She’s got friends! 💞
They’re all beautiful birds
So beautiful
Thank you! Amazing!
Beautiful birds! 😍🥰 they really like her!
Beautiful. I have a big crow who loudly demands his two apple cores every morning. After he gets them he's very friendly.
This world is so beautiful.
Beautiful
Simply beautiful 😍😍
Love her ! Love the birds !
There such beautiful and cute birds. 🥰😭😊
So beautiful❤❤❤
Same me I alway crazy to birds they are so wonderful creatures
I love them all so cute birds.❤
All birds in this video are beautiful, including you. 😘
I need to live in a place with a bunch of birds, I love watching birds
Awesome birds walk 🐦
Wow!This is my dream!!
Lovely! Amazing! Unbelievable!
If I was offered Australian citizenship I would take it. It seems like such a cool place to live
@george4vIogging
3 жыл бұрын
What about all the dangerous animals?
@thepolishastronaut7940
3 жыл бұрын
@@george4vIogging They mostly live in the arid wasteland in the middle of Australia, but either way I feel that punching spiders the size of a school bus daily is a worthy price to pay
@aishakassiasalihu9072
3 жыл бұрын
They have spiders in Australia that eat snakes.
@george4vIogging
3 жыл бұрын
@@aishakassiasalihu9072 Spiders that eat snakes? Are you serious bro?
@mehere8038
2 жыл бұрын
@@aishakassiasalihu9072 we have some VERY little snakes you know lol Seriously, our spiders are great on cockroaches (we get huge ones of them) & apart from that & other garden pests, they really don't bother anything :) We haven't had a spider death here since 1984
Amazing
@Greenpoloboy3
3 жыл бұрын
aww thanks!
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I’m amazed that so many Australian birds like these will become so tame. She can put flowers on them and they just sit there!
Its a good thing you keep the mood up after all this non stop India CoVid news was so sad
great video
I want to raise this bird because it is so cute
Nice❣
Am I the only one who had a trouble listening?. The sound seemed muffled, not clear. Couldn’t get half of what she was saying.
@delsi1204
3 жыл бұрын
Yes the music was to loud 😪
I saw a pigeon yesterday :)
@Greenpoloboy3
3 жыл бұрын
@BITCOIN INVESMENTUK no
Hi BBC! Thanks for providing the link to her channel! 🙄
The bird is the word
😍😍😍😍😍 Lovely...
i cant believe.only one bird came to my balcony and build nest was red vented bulbul.lots of birds on ur balcony.
@karene.4196
2 жыл бұрын
But you can at least feel good that you didn't habituate them to humans like this girl does ... check out her Instagram. She trains them with food.
Nice species.
she now has a youtube , "birds of oz" , if anyone wants to see more :)
😍
You gonna talk bout the huge fire in Portsmouth or no?
Awwwwwww cho chweet
Why did she get rid of all her YT videos? ☹
Adorable Kookaburras & the rest of the gangs luv those brilliant Corvid magpies best nature cures for Covid19 😘👍👌
Finally, some Australian animals that don't want to kill you.
@mark-ish
3 жыл бұрын
That still might happen. Maybe Katrina only approaches after they're fed.
@mehere8038
2 жыл бұрын
Should see my fingers right now courtesy of my lorikeets lol Reality is the birds are FAR more likely to bite than any other Aussie animal is!
This is the sort of stuff the Dodo posts. This is not news.
Nice news story
She should wear a princess gown and start singing or something😁
😊
Seems like God has put you exactly where you are supposed to be right now. Roll with it love.
Cute
😊😉
How are these birds so chill? Are they not wild?
@makeracistsafraidagain
3 жыл бұрын
Birds are very smart.
@mehere8038
2 жыл бұрын
They're Aussies :) Ever heard the Aussie saying "she'll be right mate" or "no worries"? That's how the birds & all the other Aussie animals feel about life too :) They tend to be cautious the first time they visit a new person, but as soon as one of them has done so & found it's safe, they spread the word & all the species in the area come in :) The ones to win over are the noisy miners, they send out alarm calls to all the other birds. Get them happy & all the rest will follow without fear
Even australia wild birds are tiktokers now 🤣🤣
Tiktok is the sewer of the internet.
Let me guess, you must have a bird feed somewhere in your balcony. You have no cat or dog.
@seanbayley7452
2 жыл бұрын
These birds will show up without being fed we get all of these types and dint feed them and we are on the gold coast not to far from her
1:25 “The most beautiful....” *TURKEY NOISES*
She is the luckiest girl in the world
@alexsfamily4166
3 жыл бұрын
she is not my girlfriend..
@sreedevisuresh8147
3 жыл бұрын
@@alexsfamily4166 😂😂
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@jeyaramsathees6128
3 жыл бұрын
Finance sector is the driving force of inequality
Bird whisperer
Birbs on the balcony. Birbcony.
This lady looks like Emelia Clarke
Hi
Those birds look like they r performing for the camera and will some point want their cut of the profits.
@mehere8038
2 жыл бұрын
they do - but they're lazy, they expect us to convert it into food for them & then pay them in seed :)
What is her tiktok username ?
@kismetau
3 жыл бұрын
Birdsofoz
bbc replacing tiktok?
Are this pets or this fly every time to her balcony 😁?
@CatsInHats-S.CrouchingTiger
3 жыл бұрын
They fly to visit her!
@kismetau
3 жыл бұрын
She lives next to a forest with many birds and she feeds them seeds but only a little so they don’t depend on her.
@mehere8038
2 жыл бұрын
They're wild birds, but in Australia the animals view the land as theirs & if humans move in, the animals all expect to continue living there & for the humans to share everything with them & make sure they're happy. If the humans don't oblige, they get angry & squawk until the humans wake up & give them what they demand to shut them up. That's just how it is in Australia :)
Wholesome!🤗 Now waiting for the tin foil hat wearer's comments...
Defund the BBC Cancel them direct debits Save £160. Move to streaming services
birb
this is not news
All's good until the ebris turns up and won't leave or the Indian miners.
She looks like The Blonde Psaki
Defund the BBC Cancel them direct debits Save £160
How could the Brits leave such nice land to the "prisoners" back then? who're the "prisoners" exactly?
@mehere8038
2 жыл бұрын
yup, prettywell how the convicts felt lol It was noticed right from the start, kids born in Australia grew up taller & naturally stronger than those born in Britain & the claims about whipping etc in Australia were mostly just propaganda designed to hide the fact that convicts were happily just working to pay off their debt & get given their land in return. My ancestor was a farmhand with nothing in England, with no chance of ever rising above that, by the time he died in Australia, he had enough land for each of his 14 children to have their own large & very profitable farms. He had his own farm & 2 convicts assigned to help him work it (at no cost to him) within 6 months of arriving in Australia
தமிழ் மக்கா😍
BBC??!!
The city's only good for partying. Real living is out in sticks.
I wish tiktok wasn't owned by China.
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BBC PCC propagande inn't!
Birds on TikTok now?, oh please someone get Jamoriquai back in to do a 'virtual insanity' 2021 remix/edit/version because if he thought the internet was bad enough, then that was the tip of the iceberg for him, he should have waited 20 years on when Instagram and TikTok addicted the world, because this is real virtual insanity, the internet back in the turn of the millennium was nothing compared to what is literally the virtual insanity of the present day with social media taking over the world, SOCIAL MEDIA, INSTAGRAM, TIK TOK, 21ST CENTURY VIRTUAL INSANITY
@seanbayley7452
2 жыл бұрын
U sound actually insane nit virtually what's wrong with birds on tik tok compared to the absolute crap U see on it its goid
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