This is just an oddity, and there's next to no feather detail, but luckily there was an eye highlight which I've brought out a bit. Anyway, it looks rather sinister, and recalled for me the superstition about Magpies being birds of ill omen. While all sorts of misfortune were at one time associated with seeing them, country lore has it that they are appeased by salutation and flattery.
From one source: "Seems little strange, doesn't it, that saluting a bird could ward off bad luck? Yet in many parts of the United Kingdom spying a single magpie is considered an omen of bad fortune and saluting it is a way of showing the proper respect in hope that the magpie won't pass on some of the misfortune that follows it." Seems sound advice, though it might get some strange looks from passers-by.
