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Magpies breakfast...

19 December 2010

I liked this photo... Neil asked what is it?  It is a magpie leaving the birdtable... those are its feet in the centre of the photo...

We have about 8 magpies who visit us on a regular basis... we used to feed them bits of bread but when we reached the stage of actually buying a loaf of bread for them... I switched to buying big bags of pasta twirls...

They also like cat food... bread and sunflower kernels...

It snowed all day today and it was surprisingly difficult to get the magpie in focus... the camera wanted to focus on snow flakes...

Usually we don't have a problem with gulls in the garden, but today... probably because of the snow... they kept diving at the magpies to get them to drop their pieces of pasta...

Magpie sitting on the garage roof...

Looking hopefully at the peanut feeder... the magpie sits on the branch next to the feeder and eats the peanuts...

Pasta had all been eaten...

Waiting patiently for more pasta... they have even been known to hop along the kitchen roof ridge tiles onto the windowsill and tap the glass if I am on the computer instead of giving them their breakfast...

Magpie arriving for breakfast...

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