It's a happy birds day

[ecar3483]

Take a shelf in the garden, two very, very old bananas and a family of silvereyes and you have the makings of a happy birds day.

[imastawka]

Dad, mum and junior love muesli and walnuts

Then sing your praises 

[the_great_she_elephant]

Be very careful, Stawka. We once  started feeding a couple of magpies and ended up with 14 of the little buggas invading our garden several times a day, demanding loudly what they saw as their rights, tapping with their beaks on the kitchen window if we tried to ignore them, and  even sneaking into our sunroom through the open catflap. 

[imastawka]

It's ok, she ele.  This family are the only ones around and they defend

their territory savagely from interlopers.

If there were more, they would have turned up by now.

[j*oono]

They certainly do that Stawka.  My neighbour that owns the stockfeeds had a sort of pet magpie name, yeh you guessed it, Maggie.

This little bird used to chase people and peck at their shoes when they came into the yard.  I didn't ever see it flying so maybe it couldn't fly.

[bright.ton42]

Goody a bird lovers' thread.  I love them too.

On hot days i leave bowls of water on the nature strip but people remove them. 

Beware the bird haters.  

[j*oono]

I finally got some parrots interested in my bird feeder since I hung it in the olive tree.  Sorry for the really poor photo.  It was on zoom on my phone.

[imastawka]

They say, around nesting time, the only way to stop Magpies

dive-bombing you is to feed them.

It is now nesting time, so we'll see.

They do follow me up to the shops and back - I kinda like it

[imastawka]

Sounds like the thread title, so why not?

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[ecar3483]

Love those photos.

There's two pairs that live around here, one with a baby girl. She's funny. When she's on her own she's a bold and confident young magpie, but when mum or dad turn up she turns on the squeaking "feed me" baby noise, which they ignore, LOL.