Colonel Bloomer wrote:

big snip

Interesting points and quite feasible. However I don't wear it, in
my
garden the mags live happily side by side with the other birdies and
I
cant recall the last time I saw a bird of prey here, so not that
common I'd guess.

Magpies are corvids (crow family) and are scavengers. At nesting time
their opportunistic instincts take over and they thieve any eggs and
fledgelings they can find. Whether that equates to happy co-existance
is a matter of debate. :-))

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ned