Australian Magpies nesting
Australian Magpie
While working in the garden pruning the fruit trees this morning, I noticed that our resident Australian Magpies are getting ready to breed. They are currently refurbishing the nest used last year. Fortunately we don’t have to worry about them swooping us because “our” magpies are a docile mob - unlike some magpies in other parts of the country.
Several previous articles on this topic may be of interest to new readers.
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July 24th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
There are plenty of maggies and plovers on campus, which means that we have to warn the overseas students of the havoc that’s about to be unleashed. I ended up giving one of them a lift to the station once because the plovers had traumatised him! (And visitors think it’s just the spiders and snakes that cause the problems …)
On a slightly different note, today I saw a magpie-lark harrassing a pelican in flight. I hope the magpie-lark kept at the tail end because the pelican was mightly upset.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
That reminds me of an incident we experienced several years ago. We were on a caravan holiday at Nelson (far SW Victoria) and befriended a Swedish cyclist on his way from Perth to Melbourne.
He admitted he had studiously prepared for the dangers of our snakes, sharks and spiders but no-one had warned him about our maggies. Showed us the dent in his helmet. He thought he was being attacked by an eagle.