magpie

Magpie, ad. Guret. September 2013.

The same Magpie I photographed yesterday - but some what dryer.

Just after dawn I watched this Buzzard eating a Rat, which he'd caught in my field, closely watched also by two magpies. See more photos from this episode on my flickr page at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/northantrimbirds/

Just after dawn I watched this Buzzard eating a Rat, which he'd caught in my field, closely watched also by two magpies. See more photos from this episode on my flickr page at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/northantrimbirds/

This magpie has been limping badly for months and now doesn't put its left foot down at all. Still hasn't stopped it raising 2 fine offspring, though 4 maggies in one garden can get a bit noisy!

drinking from a bird bath in hwange national park

Another shot of the wet magpie at the feeder.

Busy, busy, busy. Oh dear. Trying to catch up with things by tomorrow so I can take 8 weeks vacation with a cleared desk. But more things keep falling onto the desk :S And I'm not caught up with browsing BF either, but thought I'd post these anyway and catch up on browsing on the weekend. I just...

No, actually, he was free to come and go. He just happened to be inside the chain-links at the moment. I haven't been posting because I've had nothing to share. But today I took my camera along to campus. On the hike there I pass a small weather station where they also test building materials...

This hungry Magpie made a lot of noisy begging for food from it's parent.

In between struggles with the feeder, the magpies need to relax, something they often do on the balcony rail. They also sometimes hop here before feeding, I think to check that the neighbors' cat isn't skulking on the bench just below the railing. I shoo her away if I see her there, or the...

The magpies like the suet balls, but it's tricky for them to get at them since we stuff them into a little garden lamp that we took the glass out of and which hangs from the IV pole and sways quite violently when a bird this size tries to land on it. But some of them have worked out a technique...

Magpie at flight

Last Torun shot worth sharing. An experiment. Is it possible to blur ones way past a mesh fence? Result: Well ... interesting.

Went park exploring after the meeting, until time for my train (actually missed the train and had to take a later one). Didn't see all that much, and this guy turned his nose up at me and stalked away.

Taken on The Serpentine this Magpie was waiting for a Moorhen to drop a biscuit it had in its beak.