Lumpy Magpie

[dontevenuse@thisemail.com]

This year our resident mogs had 1 baby, Then about 2 months later
another appeared. This one has lumps/wart like growths around both
eyes and on the top of the beak. In all other respects it is a happy
mog, and the lumps dont appear to worry it.

Any idea what they may be?


Thanks
Tony

[Robbie]

wrote:
> This year our resident mogs had 1 baby, Then about 2 months later
> another appeared. This one has lumps/wart like growths around both
> eyes and on the top of the beak. In all other respects it is a happy
> mog, and the lumps dont appear to worry it.
>
> Any idea what they may be?
>
>
> Thanks
> Tony

Australian Magpies are apparently susceptible to many and various
parasites. I've lost two visiting mogs to a throat cancer, rendering
them silent and causing them to starve. And another one developed an
infected eye that never healed. If you can catch it, get it to either a
vet or Animal Rescue, as soon as you can. Mostly these things are
curable if treated.
Good Luck
Boris

[dontevenuse@thisemail.com]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:40:53 +1100, LindaB >
wrote:

>I just have to ask where you two are (statewise).
>
>Because I think oyu are both calling magpies "mogs". I just made me a
>little curious - I am Victorian, and don't know that I have heard that
>phrase before????
>
>Or did the first of you use a constrcuted word and the second just
>pick it up????
>
>Curious minds need to know. :)
>
>Linda
In Vic. have always called them mogs. ;-))

[HC]

Like Linda, I've never heard them referred to as 'mogs' either. I
thought mog was a cat....and I chase them from my yard!!

My magpie family had three babies this year, so feeding Mum, Dad and
three babies with chicken mince kept me busy, and poor, for a while.

I call Mum...Maggie, and Dad...Jacko, because a family friend back when
I was a kid (many moons ago) had pet Magpies and one of her's was Jacko.
Her Jacko and the other two (can't remember their names) had their
tongues slit in half so they would talk.....yuck!!! cruel and horrible.

I tell my Jacko he has to 'sing for his supper' and he knows that now,
so I get a lovely song containing his full repertoire while I'm cutting
whatever meat is in the fridge. His repertoire contains budgies, a
galah, barking dogs, kids screaming, kookaburra and what sounds like
people talking and laughing.

They aren't spoiled....not much!!! and I love them dropping in, just
not 10 times a day starting at 4am. LOL

Bronwyn ;-)


wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:40:53 +1100, LindaB >
> wrote:
>
>
>>I just have to ask where you two are (statewise).
>>
>>Because I think oyu are both calling magpies "mogs". I just made me a
>>little curious - I am Victorian, and don't know that I have heard that
>>phrase before????
>>
>>Or did the first of you use a constrcuted word and the second just
>>pick it up????
>>
>>Curious minds need to know. :)
>>
>>Linda
>
> In Vic. have always called them mogs. ;-))

[HC]

Sorry...meant to say I can't help with your problem, have never seen it
at all. It sounds like a mite? could you paint it with Methylated
Spirits on a cotton bud?

Dr Harry would know....give him a call!!

Bronwyn ;-)

wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:40:53 +1100, LindaB >
> wrote:
>
>
>>I just have to ask where you two are (statewise).
>>
>>Because I think oyu are both calling magpies "mogs". I just made me a
>>little curious - I am Victorian, and don't know that I have heard that
>>phrase before????
>>
>>Or did the first of you use a constrcuted word and the second just
>>pick it up????
>>
>>Curious minds need to know. :)
>>
>>Linda
>
> In Vic. have always called them mogs. ;-))

[MG]

> wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:40:53 +1100, LindaB >
> wrote:
>
>>I just have to ask where you two are (statewise).
>>
>>Because I think oyu are both calling magpies "mogs". I just made me a
>>little curious - I am Victorian, and don't know that I have heard that
>>phrase before????
>>
>>Or did the first of you use a constrcuted word and the second just
>>pick it up????
>>
>>Curious minds need to know. :)
>>
>>Linda
> In Vic. have always called them mogs. ;-))

in SA, moggies are sparrows :-)

[Robbie]

I just called them "mogs" because Tony did. I'm on the Central Coast of
NSW and am a New Australian myself, so I'm still trying to learn the
local usage. But you're quite right, most of my friends call their cats
"mog", when they're not calling them something else.

When I first moved up here I found all the neighbors were spreading
food out on the lawns and the baby magpies spent the day just sitting
on the lawns screaming for food. Now I'm the only one on the street
hand-feeding 3 magpies who come to my door yelling for attention 2 or 3
times a day, depending on the weather, and the big flocks with the
babies aren't hanging around anymore. I also have a family of 4
kookaburras, the parents, an adolescent and a hatchling, who take turns
coming in twice a day to take bits of minced beef from my hand. Has
anyone else noticed that when feeding the magpies or kookaburras by
hand, they study your face before accepting food? Fascinating! I tried
to feed a kookaburra with a hat shading my eyes and it refused to eat.

[HC]

G'day Robbie

I've noticed the eye-to-eye contact too and the birds that I feed are
the same....sometimes the newcomers don't even like my sunglasses so I
remove them, once they become more familiar with feeding times, and me,
I suppose, they seem to accept hats/sunnies.

I used to breed ducks (10 diff breeds) and geese and the new hatchlings
were always frightened of hats. Our family white cockatoo was the same,
although eventually he got used to our family members wearing
hats/sunnies11 but he hated visitors wearing hats. Have never been able
to figure it out, but it seems to run across various members of our
feathered families.

HC ;-)


Robbie wrote:

> I just called them "mogs" because Tony did. I'm on the Central Coast of
> NSW and am a New Australian myself, so I'm still trying to learn the
> local usage. But you're quite right, most of my friends call their cats
> "mog", when they're not calling them something else.
>
> When I first moved up here I found all the neighbors were spreading
> food out on the lawns and the baby magpies spent the day just sitting
> on the lawns screaming for food. Now I'm the only one on the street
> hand-feeding 3 magpies who come to my door yelling for attention 2 or 3
> times a day, depending on the weather, and the big flocks with the
> babies aren't hanging around anymore. I also have a family of 4
> kookaburras, the parents, an adolescent and a hatchling, who take turns
> coming in twice a day to take bits of minced beef from my hand. Has
> anyone else noticed that when feeding the magpies or kookaburras by
> hand, they study your face before accepting food? Fascinating! I tried
> to feed a kookaburra with a hat shading my eyes and it refused to eat.
>

[Spiny Norman]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:50:48 +1100, wrote in
aus.gardens:

>This year our resident mogs had 1 baby, Then about 2 months later
>another appeared. This one has lumps/wart like growths around both
>eyes and on the top of the beak. In all other respects it is a happy
>mog, and the lumps dont appear to worry it.
>
>Any idea what they may be?

This sounds awfully like a thing that used to afflict budgies
ocassionally but I think it was dead easy to cure. As I recall it was
something like using ordinary antiseptic on the lumps. I think it is
caused by a mite (long time since I kept budgies)


Regards
Prickles

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[John Savage]

HC > writes:
>I used to breed ducks (10 diff breeds) and geese and the new hatchlings
>were always frightened of hats. Our family white cockatoo was the same,
>although eventually he got used to our family members wearing
>hats/sunnies11 but he hated visitors wearing hats. Have never been able
>to figure it out, but it seems to run across various members of our
>feathered families.

For a couple of seasons a pair of magpies nested in a tall pine tree
near my Mum's house, and she used to feed them. One day she came back
inside quite indignant that one of the magpies had swooped her. Until
then, they never had. She later realised that that had been the first
time she had fed them while she was not wearing her wide straw hat.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

[John Savage]

HC > writes:
>I used to breed ducks (10 diff breeds) and geese and the new hatchlings
>were always frightened of hats. Our family white cockatoo was the same,
>although eventually he got used to our family members wearing
>hats/sunnies11 but he hated visitors wearing hats. Have never been able
>to figure it out, but it seems to run across various members of our
>feathered families.

Years ago, for a couple of seasons a pair of magpies nested in a tall
pine tree near our house, and Mum used to feed them. One day Mum came
into the house quite indignant about one of the magpies swooping her.
Until then, they never had. She later realised that that had been the
first time she had fed them while she was not wearing her wide straw hat.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)