Get more food for them because you'll be feeding the babies soon as well!

The guys that we have had hanging around for quite a few years bring the young ones with them to "knock" on the front door when they want a little extra food. They also ****e all over the verandah but that's okay

elmo said..
Friendly Magpies (not the footy jumper type) are the best thing since sliced bread and if you are good to them they'll teach their offspring to like you as well, so when you're out in the garden they'll come up to you for a ferret around.

Always talk and whistle to them and they'll sing back to you

I've read that Magpies have very long memories and can recognize individuals who have wronged them, cyclists are just fair game it seems.

Ive had magpies and crows that Ive fed, very friendly.

some friends of ours had tame magies in a tree, well tame until they had young, then they got attacked.

We had a couple of tame ones, hand reared, which were friendly with the wild ones and never had a problem. Some visitors did but always the same ones. One mate used to visit with his squash racket.

They provide some really spectacular amusement as well . I watched one pulling the other around the lawn by its tail feathers when on its back. Another time two of them were standing beneath a shrub, jumping up to latch on to a low hanging branch with their beaks. Really weird non bird stuff.

They sure are characters. Just don't leave any food around unattended during a BBQ our when eating outside. Once part of the family, they'll happily fly up onto a table and hack away at some expensive prosciutto or hunks of cheese. They love cheese.

You need food sentinels!

japie said..
They provide some really spectacular amusement as well . I watched one pulling the other around the lawn by its tail feathers when on its back.

thanks all.

japie
that's what these ones do too. it's like a wrestling match. they'll suddenly stop wrestling and both lay on their backs with feet in the air for about 10 seconds, then start again

Does anyone know what kind of palm this is? We've got 6 of them this size and they don't grow / drop seeds of any kind. How would they reproduce? Apart from date palms, I've never seen trunks this thick.

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Aha! thanks hotbodmon.

any idea how often it develops seeds? There's been nothing for a couple of years so far

From '79 to '98ish we had an extended tribe of maggies nesting and living in 3 trees surrounding our Wembley Downs home, they used to preen our red cloud kelpie and golden retriever - and use the fur in their nests!
Originally, we fed them cheap mince, but it got a bit pricey after a while, so weaned them onto rolled oats, which they never refused.
It was common to find the maggies - especially the younger ones - following our dogs into the house where they all cornered mum into the kitchen
Dad had a few problems with the maggies joining in with his racing pigeons for the afternoon exercise flight, we would often find a couple of embarrassed magpies in the loft who had got a bit too enthusiastic and followed the pigeons through the trapdoor, any caught got the privilege of a free worming treatment.

Never got swooped, pecked or pooped on by the maggies, but they did beat the dogs to my toast a few times.

Was pretty awesome seeing our kelpie sharing her food bowl with her 6 pups, and a mob of maggies - with no agro from any of them.

I have a community of magpies and 2 butcher birds .. bunch of kangaroos. duck in pond out front ducks . Got munt duck at the moment who returns every years Last years he raised like 5 chicklings. I can call the maggies in now typical food sluts Chuck left overs out they be tapping on your window for more.
Its great to be able to accommodate pets like that as if you go away you don't have to fed them.

You can feed them but take a couple of years before they wont swoop. Me can go out back and whistle and the whole clan comes in for a feed. great biodiversity

That's blackbirds, four n twenty to be precise....not maggies.....shall we start with the nursery rhymes again?

Adriano said..
That's blackbirds, four n twenty to be precise....not maggies.....shall we start with the nursery rhymes again?

Wtf are you banging on about now resentful bastard ? "Blackbirds to be precise " Cuckoo

DARTH said..

Ive had magpies and crows that Ive fed, very friendly.

Me too, Friendly crows and parrots too,\ comes to eat from hand. a bit troublesome as soon as they try to eat everything laying around, so gave up close encounters.

shame the foodsluts cant be toilet trained they **** all over the patio and patio funiture

we're not there yet. i think dad's bringing mum food while warming nest and she's making the squeaks. nothing's hatched yet

just lost the lowest frond on the left, and theirs is next. not sure this is going to end very well

i have a family of 12 that will come down to feed and just play on the south side of my shed, but not the north side. I think it may be a n area out of view from the lookouts. they are great friends with the 28 parrot flock. and the parrots will sit by the magpie nests and keep watch whilst the maggies feed. , when the parts are feeding on the ground the maggies keep watch for the kites, ospreys and eagle in the area. they recognise the smell of coffee and toast. and come to the window at breakfast