Posted by: @killer

No wunder the rain deer call in around Xmas time , lol  

When I got home my wife was feeding the magpies.

This bloke is very bold. 

He is asking me, "got any bickies?"

That's not a zoom lens. He was about a metre away from me.  

@murray the magpies out there have got a lot of white/Pied in them. Ours over here are much plainer. They are terrible though at taking young birds out of the nest of smaller birds. 

Yep, they are opportunists. 

If it is edible they will eat it.

This was a nest of blackbirds we had in our garden last year. 

2 days later the nest was empty. One dead youngster on the floor and the others gone. Think it must have been a magpie as the nest it’s self hadn’t been touch which I think it would have been if it had been a cat.