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  1. SF - persistent Magpie 5

    SF - persistent Magpie 5

    Darn ... just a billful of snow that time!
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  2. SF - persistent Magpie 6

    SF - persistent Magpie 6

    Maybe if I hang on here ...?
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  3. SF - persistent Magpie 7

    SF - persistent Magpie 7

    Hi folks, sorry I'm not caught up browsing. Long hike yesterday (17 km), overslept this morning, then baking and other chores. Will try to catch up now, but may not be done before tomorrow. Meanwhile ... the Magpie story continues. As you can see from the other two shots for today - the...
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  4. SF - persistent Magpie 4

    SF - persistent Magpie 4

    I promised you a weekend fun series about the Magpie's antics trying to get at the fat-packed dangly feeders. I must admit, the Magpies were more effective than it looks when it came to emptying those feeders. Judging by how fast the feeders ran empty, they did get at least their size-relative...
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  5. SF - persistent Magpie 3

    SF - persistent Magpie 3

    I promised you a weekend fun series about the Magpie's antics trying to get at the fat-packed dangly feeders. I must admit, the Magpies were more effective than it looks when it came to emptying those feeders. Judging by how fast the feeders ran empty, they did get at least their size-relative...
    • Doc Duck
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    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  6. SF - persistent Magpie 2

    SF - persistent Magpie 2

    I promised you a weekend fun series about the Magpie's antics trying to get at the fat-packed dangly feeders. I must admit, the Magpies were more effective than it looks when it came to emptying those feeders. Judging by how fast the feeders ran empty, they did get at least their size-relative...
    • Doc Duck
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    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  7. Try, try again

    Try, try again

    I think I mentioned before that these feeders made for a lot of fun watching the antics of the Magpies. Smart as they usually are, the Magpies just couldn't seem to figure out a way to easily feed from them. But the suet and peanut butter fillings were soooo soooo tempting, so they kept on...
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  8. Pick-up-sticks

    Pick-up-sticks

    You can't really tell from this image, but for a while in March a pair of Magpies was often in my philadelphus shrub breaking off twigs for their nest. They weren't building it in my yard, but perhaps in a nearby yard with a conifer.
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  9. Inpsecting the damage

    Inpsecting the damage

    Then the Magpie flew in for a closer look. As far as I can tell from the rest of that day's photos, he tried different vantage points but eventually gave up. There just wasn't an easy way for him to access the feeders or ground seeds that day, so the Tits, Sparrows and Siskins got the feeders to...
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  10. Snowed out

    Snowed out

    as opposed to grounded. I think the Magpies intentionally tip my feeders, spilling seed on the ground (in addition to the ones the passerines drop) where it's easier for them to forage. There's now such a thick layer of seeds and husks under the feeders that the Wood Pigeons have also taken to...
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  11. SF - caption anyone?

    SF - caption anyone?

    It's getting late - actually Sunday already here, but I'll call this a Saturday Fun shot anyway. And I'll blame the late hour for my inability to come up with a catchy caption for this shot.
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  12. Thinking about it

    Thinking about it

    "It" being how to get at the feeders in the feeder area at Ringve Botanical Garden. Most of them have now been caged so the smaller birds can eat in peace and not be bullied away by the Magpies.
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  13. Skulker

    Skulker

    No, not me. The Magpie. They're such scaredy-cats. All I have to do is stand up at my office (aka guest room) window, and off they go. Very hard to get close-ups of them here in the garden. This guy must have thought he was safely hidden in the shrub.
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  14. Magpie

    Magpie

    • Cristian Mihai
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  15. magpie

    magpie

    there seems to be some asymmetry in the moulting between the left and right
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  16. Eurasian Magpie

    Eurasian Magpie

    • Leo Tukker
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  17. Rear view

    Rear view

    well, he does have quite a rear to show off. As pretty as Pippa Middleton in her maid-of-honor dress ;) I'm back from my trip to the coast with the mid-week gang from the ornithology society. Two lifers seen, but most of what we saw was at great distances. Luckily these are a friendly gang who...
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  18. Young Eurasian Magpie

    Young Eurasian Magpie

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  19. That's my perch!

    That's my perch!

    We were watching this juvenile Hobby hawking for dragonflies and returning time and again to this perch, when the Magpie arrived and drove him off.
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  20. what are you looking at.....

    what are you looking at.....

    At last one magpie came within about 14 meters
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  21. Eurasian Magpie

    Eurasian Magpie

    • Cristian Mihai
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  22. Got my will, now I'll be on my way

    Got my will, now I'll be on my way

    And away he goes. End of today's story.
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  23. Where there's a will, there's a way

    Where there's a will, there's a way

    And where there's a way, the magpie is a bird with the will to find it.
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  24. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!

    It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!

    All of our feeders are now hanging from an IV-pole that my husband found, broken, in the hospital stairwell and was told he could recycle for them. That means, of course, that they "dangle", and when a largish bird such as a magpie tries to land on them, they swing. This guy spent...
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  25. Eurasian Magpie

    Eurasian Magpie

    http://ptaki-doliny-baryczy.manifo.com/
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