#magpie behaviour

Continued from Blog 254 Magpies grouped in a tree Dear Reader…. ……Looking further across the field I notice a long dead tree with a small flock of Australian Magpies perched along a skeletal branch. A rather picturesque and haunting image. I use the GPS for location confirmation when writing notes and taking photographs Climbing back into my car I scan the GPS for the next intersecting road…

in her black and white uniform.

Who called her?  Nobody knows.  But she knows: she knows exactly when every baby is due and she moves in a day or so before to watch over the mother.

Unlike her human counterpart she has no concern for the mother, she is here to collect the placenta and the membranes.  There’ll be no rotting flesh on our fields to attract predators.  All will be whisked away by the…