Sorry - usual mad catch up in progress. Spring is sprung and I don't wonder where the birdies iz - I can see and hear them billing and squawking, loudly when it's a pair of magpies in the trees opposite the tube platform where I got dumped part way home.
Thank you so much for looking and your lovely comments. You're all superstars.
Our Magpies are pied and have a lot more white in them. Beautiful songbirds though. Interesting fact: A Queensland Magpie cannot communicate with a Tasmania Magpie despite them all being one species. They have variations in their languages.