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Taking crickets now yay
Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
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Go you good thing!
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Magpies are pretty much omnivorous

Every year our resident pair bring off at least one clutch, and feed newly fledged young on bread, meat scraps, and basically whatever they can find in the yard

Favoured food consists of insects obtained by following the ride-on mower; but dried dog pellets are also shoved into the begging youngsters to shut them up
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Glad to hear little Maggie is doing well.
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Deb,

Any update (hopefully positive) on the little fella?

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http://youtu.be/qoaEBb4IN4Q

Is this the young fella, Deb??
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Hey Deb, great work rescuing the magpie. Hope it is continuing to go well. :-)
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That is a fantastic link Arthur. Extraordinary birds alrighty. Amazing to see that degree of inter species play.

I raised a raven in my youth and it built up a similar relationship with our then cat. He also had a thing about shoelaces, that was hilarious to watch. Be keen to hear about the outcome of your maggie too deb. Have heard it can be difficult to keep them when the wild birds are present. The territorial biffs can be brutal.
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