The Magpie is a dark bird with a white belly. He's a beautiful fellow, and cousin to the crow. I don't know about the rest of the USA, but I've never seen a Magpie where I live, on the East Coast. Maggie, Mag, love a pie bird, I've seen him in England, and compared to the Crow, Maggie is a shy bird. The crows in England, that I saw, strut about. The Magpie hides. This is my experience. Perhaps if I got to know this bird up close there might be another story for me to tell.
The Magpie is known for stealing bright and shiny things. He/she loves to decorate the nest. This I would like to see. Maggie Pie what do you steal? Would you take a coin without swallowing it? Jewelry, yeah, I can see it, tinfoil, wire, why not... but could you steal a coin? That image stuck in my brain. I wonder. Could the bright shiny object, by accident, slide down his/her beak and be ... swallowed! Do Magpies ever fight over shiny things? Birds will try to steal each other's food, I know that, I've seen that, swallows, crows, blue jays, seagulls, if another bird has some food every other bird in the universe will want that food. Is it the same with bright shiny things? I would like to see that ... pirates at dawn dueling with beaks instead of swords for the buried treasure.
The Magpie has been in stories. I know of one an adult fairy tale (no, not "x-rated"!) called "Once..." very very good story, where the Magpie is a sinister presence! I think I remember, someone in the dusty halls of my memory where the old archives are kept in drawers that creak when you open them, watch it with that paper, it is so old it will crumble at the touch - I remember reading about Magpies as "villains" in other stories. However, I think they have been, and can be, comical friends (same goes for crows...)...
There's a commercial out, regarding doors made of glass, and a glass cleaner that is so good that you can't tell the glass is there - and how two magpies, out in the yard, coaxed the human inside to come out - and he runs smack dab into the window/door [get it? So clear, he can't tell it's there.]. The magpies laugh their heads off at their little joke.
The people in the commercial (the narrator) refer to the magpies as crows!!!
HAH! Magpies, my good friend, MAGPIES!!!! They're the crows with the white bellies.... etc.
I wonder if Crows and Blue Jays like shiny things as well. Would be interesting to compare... like to see all their nests!
The Magpie is known for stealing bright and shiny things. He/she loves to decorate the nest. This I would like to see. Maggie Pie what do you steal? Would you take a coin without swallowing it? Jewelry, yeah, I can see it, tinfoil, wire, why not... but could you steal a coin? That image stuck in my brain. I wonder. Could the bright shiny object, by accident, slide down his/her beak and be ... swallowed! Do Magpies ever fight over shiny things? Birds will try to steal each other's food, I know that, I've seen that, swallows, crows, blue jays, seagulls, if another bird has some food every other bird in the universe will want that food. Is it the same with bright shiny things? I would like to see that ... pirates at dawn dueling with beaks instead of swords for the buried treasure.
The Magpie has been in stories. I know of one an adult fairy tale (no, not "x-rated"!) called "Once..." very very good story, where the Magpie is a sinister presence! I think I remember, someone in the dusty halls of my memory where the old archives are kept in drawers that creak when you open them, watch it with that paper, it is so old it will crumble at the touch - I remember reading about Magpies as "villains" in other stories. However, I think they have been, and can be, comical friends (same goes for crows...)...
There's a commercial out, regarding doors made of glass, and a glass cleaner that is so good that you can't tell the glass is there - and how two magpies, out in the yard, coaxed the human inside to come out - and he runs smack dab into the window/door [get it? So clear, he can't tell it's there.]. The magpies laugh their heads off at their little joke.
The people in the commercial (the narrator) refer to the magpies as crows!!!
HAH! Magpies, my good friend, MAGPIES!!!! They're the crows with the white bellies.... etc.
I wonder if Crows and Blue Jays like shiny things as well. Would be interesting to compare... like to see all their nests!
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