magpie

Thanks so much for all your kind comments on my last upload. I hope you like it.

It seems that they get some confidence.

Mack the knife look from this Maggie.

Magpie a few seconds after landing

magpies were introduced to New Zealand from Australia. Not popular birds, in fact they are thought of as pests. Quite aggressive, territorial birds.

He came back down the other day, this time the light caught him nicely.

I live near the town-centre in an enclosed private property with about two hundred flats and lots of old trees, bushes , grassy plots and flower-beds. The place has been taken over by magpies and wandering cats have to be very wary. I can see one of their nests in a tree outside my living-room...

.. & some people think they are just Black & White! ;-)

A male oriental magpie-robin

One of the reasons I bought a new camera was I wanted a faster AF and response time. I was missing too many action and flight opportunities, and stopped blaming myself and blamed the camera instead ;) This is my first attempt using the 5.5fps continuous AF of the new camera for a smallish bird...

This crazy young Magpie decided to dance back and forth in front of me at the reservoirs on Saturday. I should've taken the TCON17 off, but I never had time.

Magpie is landing