We used to have magpies regularly in our garden, but they don't tend to let anything else in.
This naughty magpie brought two babies in our garden recently and he was so vicious to our regular kookaburras and currawongs that I had to chase him off with the sprinkler on the hose pipe. He also attacked the lorikeets too and usually the lorikeets can fight back but this naughty boy got hold of one lorikeet by the neck and really attacked it.
This chap did come back a few times after I hosed him, but he has got the message now.
I won't stand for bad behaviour with the birds who visit.
hahaha love that you give them what for Babs - it's the noisy minors who seem to be the most territorial in our yard - they always harass the kookas and a comoront that has started visiting but leave alone the lorikeets who share the bottle brush and flowering gum.
Naughty boy. He does look waiting for someone to start a quarrel. I would have done the same as you. However you got a superb capture of him stand proud..
Great shot Babs, but I have no love to wards our British Magpie in spite for their striking black and white plumage. Being a Corvidae, is intelligent, scavengers, predators, raiding nests of garden birds, and known to kill small birds, etc.
Oops after all that , Alexa informs me that our Magpie is not related to the Australian Magpie Amazing as they look so alike ! Ooh well, keep smiling !!
Oops after all that , Alexa informs me that our Magpie is not related to the Australian Magpie Amazing as they look so alike ! Ooh well, keep smiling !!
Ian
Handsome fellow!