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After some 7 years of visiting 2/3 times a day, rearing yourg ones our
parent magpies have just stopped coming and have not bee seen now for
a week.

In suburbia.

Is the something that "just happens"?

Yeah - different food available and the young ones should be grown a bit by
now so lesser need for free handouts.
If they have gone its not a necessarily bad sign ... they're very good at
living with humans and tend to chase other bird species away. Generally ...
here in Brisbane anyway ... you tend to have magpies, noisy miners and
butcher birds co-habiting, but they'll all gang up on kookas, kingfishers
and other native birds.
The birders around here tend to regard them almost like ferals.
Amanda