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A young magpie got in earlier in the week. Found its way to the bathroom and got stuck.
Just now, a magpie- maybe the same one - has just got in the family room
Am I
A) going to die?
B) going to have prosperity
Or
C) other?
We have a pair of clueless wood pigeons trying to build a nest in the tree outside our bedroom window. The main problem they have is that as the wind blows bits of the nest fall out of the tree. If you are on the patio the twigs fall on your head.
Magpies normally go out if you open window and give them space.
C). You have a new friend. Give it something to eat.
This. Magpies are really intelligent.
Also if you don't treat it nicely, it'll probably remember and then it, and all its mates, will come and haunt you forever.
Be nice to magpies.
If you get it over-excited, you may be surprised just how much shit is contained in one magpie...........
A Magpie came into our kitchen this week and stole a marshmallow from the top of the microwave. A good 6ft in the door. One of the dogs ran through barking. I had a look. The marshmallow packet was on the floor and two Magpies were on the shed roof sharing one.
I didn't even know they had a sweet tooth.
I didn't even know they had a sweet tooth.
Yeah basically the same diet as crows, overwhelmingly carnivorous but also some fruit and berries, hence their disposition to sweet things.
C). You have a new friend. Give it something to eat.
This; feed it peanuts, once it knows it can trust you, and find a regular source of food, it’ll happily turn up on a regular basis for a snack.
Like all corvids, they’re remarkably intelligent, they can recognise human faces, and if threatened will carry a grudge! Beautiful birds, I get a pair in the garden regularly through the winter, but they’ve not been around lately, although I do hear them chattering away, same with a pair of crows who use the bird baths in mine and next door’s gardens to dunk pieces of hard dry bread to soften it, and they’re training this year’s fledglings to do it as well.
I’ve not seen the jay around lately, but now it knows where there’s a ready supply of fat balls I’m sure it’ll be back.
Enjoy their company I’d rather have them around that many humans, including some neighbours… 😒
Two for joy, no?
I came down to lunch about a month ago and found a magpie in the front room, grabbed him and let him out before murder mittens saw him.. Then earlier this week I came down to breakfast to hear scrabbling from the cupboard under the stairs (the piled high with junk cupboard), having had mice/rats start to nest in there previously, due to old murder mittens bring them in to play, then loosing them, I was concerned.. Nope turn out it was a starling stuck behind the cupboard door (permanently open as we can't close the door for junk), so again she got grabbed and ejected... Been here nearly 20 years, and not had it happen before
I hate magpies. I hate birds generally, but magpies and crows especially. Do whatever you can to discourage them, they are the harbingers of death.
Two Magpies on top of the bread bin this morning. They are persistent.
I hate magpies. I hate birds generally, but magpies and crows especially. Do whatever you can to discourage them, they are the harbingers of death.
Humans are harbingers of death for vast swathes of the natural world. Magpies and crows are just trying to survive.
I have no doubt that if magpies could bring death to vast swathes of the natural world, they would 😀
I have no doubt that if magpies could bring death to vast swathes of the natural world, they would 😀
They are number one suspect for the dead wood pigeon chick left on the lawn last week.
I hate magpies. I hate birds generally, but magpies and crows especially. Do whatever you can to discourage them, they are the harbingers of death.
I hate magpies. I hate birds generally, but magpies and crows especially. Do whatever you can to discourage them, they are the harbingers of death.
No, they aren’t, except for the irredeemably superstitious. The connection is only because of the fact that crows and ravens, as scavengers, are attracted to battlefields.
Ravens are also known as Odin’s messengers, who fly out into the world to bring back news to Odin.
Corvids are extremely intelligent, smarter than some people I’ve known, and I, on the hand, will do anything to encourage members of the corvidae into my garden. Magpies and jays in particular are beautiful birds, and ravens are magnificent, the world biggest songbirds.
I have no doubt that if magpies could bring death to vast swathes of the natural world, they would
They, along with the jay, are certainly responsible for killing off an awful lot of fat balls!
If I leave the back door open, the magpies come in to the kitchen and help themselves to the cats food.
Its a bold move on their behalf given that said cat, Nelson, is an absolute killing machine, though he does favour rodents over birds
Did you salute it?
Good morning Mr Magpie.
From the title I thought the OP meant he had Ant and Dec staying over