Don't you just love them too? They're intelligent, inquisitive, successful...and they don't suffer from post industrial angst. 
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I Love Magpies
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I used to see a lad who was about 15 when i was about 5-6. He used to ride round town with a magpie on his bmx handle bars. Hed helped it when he found it injured and it never really left. It lived in trees near his house. Whenever he came outside the maggie would swoop down to see him. And either perch on his handle bars or fly along with him. Coolest bond id seen with a wild animal.
Hmmmm - so you are playing Cooch to Jimbo75's Wal eh?
If you do not get the reference I guess you have never read the "Footrot Flats" strip .... Google it!
If you do not get the reference I guess you have never read the "Footrot Flats" strip .... Google it!
I personally don't like them, and over the years have shot a few, but now i only kill something, if i am going to eat it, but saying that, back when i was a lad, i spent many a happy hour with blackthorn scratches on my arms, climbing trees to see what the crafty so and so's had pinched from window cill's (back in the day, when all washing up was done by hand, and the lady of the house used to remove her wedding band, and engagement ring to wash up and left it on on the cill, with the window open) Mainly silver paper and other non valuable shiny things, but a couple of times, i literally struck gold!
Devil of a nest to get into from memory.
Oh and the call above your head, early in the morning, is not particulary nice.
Ivan...
Devil of a nest to get into from memory.
Oh and the call above your head, early in the morning, is not particulary nice.
Ivan...
Yes, I love them too! So many people dislike them because they take songbird chicks - but that's nature.
I hope they are greeted by "Good day Captain or Mr Magpie" or whatever is your custom locally. They can foretell the future,
1 for sorrow
2 for joy
3 for a girl
4 for a boy
5 for silver
6 for gold
7 for a secret never to be told
8 for Heaven
9 for hell
10 for the heart you know so well.
1 for sorrow
2 for joy
3 for a girl
4 for a boy
5 for silver
6 for gold
7 for a secret never to be told
8 for Heaven
9 for hell
10 for the heart you know so well.
I did not and so I did as you suggested. here's a link for others who might be in the same boat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footrot_Flats
If I see a single magpie on my travels, I try and walk the other way or avoid passing it (one for sorrow). As for their singing, not everyone can be Caruso
Ah!! That would make sense given the words. You learn several new things everyday on this forum. I'll still avoid single magpies though.
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No, I'm no fan of the sleekit beasts.
One for sorrow
Two for mirth
Three for a funeral
Four for a birth
Five for heaven
Six for hell
Seven's the the De'il his ane sel',
There are others, but that one's well known.
I know they're clever birds, but more of them survive because we feed them (inadvertantly usually) and with their 'gang' / family structure they literally devour the hedgerow nests of every other bird they can reach. They have driven the crows out here and they've attacked the squirrels dreys so often now that the squirrel numbers have plummeted too. They only manage such damage because they do work as a mob and a nesting pair have very little defence against them.
There are just too many of them around now.
M
One for sorrow
Two for mirth
Three for a funeral
Four for a birth
Five for heaven
Six for hell
Seven's the the De'il his ane sel',
There are others, but that one's well known.
I know they're clever birds, but more of them survive because we feed them (inadvertantly usually) and with their 'gang' / family structure they literally devour the hedgerow nests of every other bird they can reach. They have driven the crows out here and they've attacked the squirrels dreys so often now that the squirrel numbers have plummeted too. They only manage such damage because they do work as a mob and a nesting pair have very little defence against them.
There are just too many of them around now.
M
Hmm, co-operative creature with a gang structure, far too many of them and they destroy every other species. Reminds me of a large bipedal mammal... the name will come to me in a minute...
Elen Sentier
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Don't you just love them too? They're intelligent, inquisitive, successful...and they don't suffer from post industrial angst.
*grin* ... however mine here in the hedge need oiling ... they squeak !!!
