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We were in Bristol yesterday and saw more magpies in a few hours
than we see in a week round here.

My wishes for their welfare are not at all kind ...
Jennifer - in Bristol

The neighbours must think I'm mad(der) because whenever I see one in our
garden I'm out of the kitchen clapping my hands to chase it away.

A couple of years back we heard a really distressed sounding bird in the
front garden. It was so loud it had woken us up (about 6am). A pair of
blackbirds were frantically trying to chase a magpie away frm their nest.
Unfortunately by the time I'd got some clothes on the magpie had suceeded.
It was heartbreaking.

I don't mind sparrowhawks, I can cope with the cheek of starlings. But
there's something evil about magpies.

I don't think of them as evil, I think they're beautiful and only doing what
Nature intended. But I don't want to see flocks of them predating on the
small birds. There didn't used to be so many round here, something has
contributed to their success :-(

Sometimes one's principles are sacrificed to pragmatism.

sigh

Mary

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from Sacha contains these words:

We were in Bristol yesterday and saw more magpies in a few hours than we see
in a week round here.

My wishes for their welfare are not at all kind ...
Jennifer - in Bristol


We've got 6 on our lawn most days, they look like parents and fledglings
though the youngsters seem fully grown now and yet haven't gone away.
(We've also got a dove and her family on our satellite dish, 3 inches
from the bedroom window)

janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk