I freely admit I am new to this whole gardening-and-bird-watching malarkey but I might be getting a feel or understanding of what happens and when. I stress
might .

Last year we had two magpies in the garden, from April onwards, who disappeared around November. Earlier this week two returned but whether they are the same two I don't know: neither do I know if they are a pair. They are haunting the garden and have now discovered the drive, hanging around all the feeders and one just had a fierce squabble with a wood pigeon.
I know I can google magpies and discover what-is-what-and-why but (call me old-fashioned because I am) I wondered if any of you have noticed the same? Currently we have blue tits, long-tailed tits, blackbirds, collared doves, robins, sparrows, fat wood pigeons and wrens plus two magpies hanging around, but no crows (yet). DD
Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
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The magpies are by far the noisiest, the robins very bold, and the blue-tits & goldfinches the most entertaining, as they dart about like quicksilver. We have a running battle every year to try and discourage the wood pigeons from building a nest on the strut between the Sky satellite dish & the wall - if we lose we have no TV picture! Hubby gets quite excited when the sparrows come, as they are falling in numbers.
It was bird central this morning around the star magnolia - five blue tits flitting in and out of it, a couple of blackbirds and robins underneath it, one fat woodpigeon staggering around and a sparrow or two. Then in flew the magpies and the rest vanished.
This afternoon, just after my massage had finished a movement outside the window caught my eye: we have a suet ball feeder suspended from a sturdy rose close to a wall opposite the window and there was a magpie, hanging on for all he was worth, pecking away: you could barely see the feeder he was so large. DD
Barbara
Whenever I think of Magpies I remember Daisycat, (when a kitten), catching one and bringing it live into my lounge!!
It was HUGE!!!!!!!!
Luckily a friend was near enough by to help safely free him
Toni xxx
When we moved here, Frog, we had very little bird life due to the previous owner having a cat called (of all things) Mouse. I am so happy to see our feathered population increasing, especially the blue tits (they are gorgeous!) DD
Barbara
I won't be treating them to anything else, my neighbours have chickens and the risk of encouraging rats is too high. I have plenty of various feeders around the garden perimeters but 've noted that all the birds are now busy on the lawn and the plants so when the feeders run out I won't be replenishing them, Mother Nature can take over feeding duties during the summer! DD
Blimey! That was very bright indeed. Was he / she using a hover mower? Do they mow lawns too?
(Sorry. Couldn't resist. I know you'll forgive me
Mind you the crows just lift it off its stand and let it fall to the ground.
Its a hard life but etc etc....