I heard a racket going on and walked out of my front door to investigate, frightening off a magpie which dropped the nestling blackbird it had caught. Blackbirds and sparrows were mobbing it and chased it off.
I was then left with the problem of finding the nest to return the apparently unharmed youngster. It was somewhere in a very dense privet hedge. After teetering around on a stepladder for a while I found a very tatty nest and returned the baby - so hopefully it will be OK. Better off there than on the ground to fall foul of one of the many neighbourhood cats.
I hope the magpie finds another meal - like a young rat or....
Rats have to make a living too lol
Magpies have to make a living too
only doing what comes naturally but more obvious in our gardens where chicks cant hide away.
Yes, true, that's why I gave the thread that title.
It would have been a shame for the magpie to have lost it's meal and then the chick die anyway.
I'm not sure if the mobbing birds made it drop the chick or seeing me lol.
I think magptes are attractive birds, but the noise they make comes from a horror movie, who ever created them had a sense of humour!
Certainly did sue :)
....and those long tails are so expressive
have you ever heard U.S. Magpies? They squeak yet they are the same bird!
I didn't know that
That sense of humour is worldwide then :)
One speaks European and one American LOL
I was going to say you'd think the voices were the wrong way round, but that might get me into trouble.....
hee...hee...naughty girlie!..
;-D