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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 41
Image Taken on 15 Dec 2021
at 14:26 Image of day on 16 Jan 2022
This Magpie touches down in a flurry of feathers.
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Image Taken on 28 Nov 2024
at 08:54 Image of day on 05 Jan 2025
The Meadow Post is smothered in frost which doesn't seem to bother the Magpie at all
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Image Taken on 18 Feb 2013
at 07:46 Image of day on 24 Mar 2013
A magpie caught at the moment of landing with the wing feathers and tail
catching the flashlight very attractively
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Image Taken on 21 Feb 2022
at 16:19 Image of day on 22 Mar 2022
A Magpie makes the characteristic tail rise to balance after landing.
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Image Taken on 03 Nov 2021
at 15:04 Image of day on 13 Dec 2021
The markings on Magpies are a wonder.
The Black/wide divide on the wings runs diagonally across the feathers,
and the tips of the primaries (the main flight feathers) are tipped with Grey.
And we can't even see the back and tail in this landing.
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Image Taken on 26 Nov 2024
at 13:25 Image of day on 31 Dec 2024
Touchdown!
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Image Taken on 19 Jul 2021
at 06:50 Image of day on 29 Aug 2021
A Magpie makes an early morning landing lit by the sun behind.
We think that the brown feathers are backlit, while the white primaries
are catching the sun directly.
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Image Taken on 14 Jun 2020
at 10:33 Image of day on 20 Jul 2020
We don't remember seeing a Magpie with prey in its claws before, but this
one is streaked with fresh blood from some small bird (prey's claws pointing upwards).
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Image Taken on 17 Mar 2021
at 13:30 Image of day on 12 Apr 2021
Magpies are building several nests around the site
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Image Taken on 31 Mar 2024
at 14:47 Image of day on 26 Apr 2024
A Magpie stops off on the Meadow post with yet another twig.
Read this right then left about half a second apart.
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Image Taken on 07 Jul 2016
at 11:42 Image of day on 26 Aug 2016
A magpie providing a good show of feathers as it lands on the kitchen window perch.
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Image Taken on 07 Oct 2017
at 16:17 Image of day on 13 Nov 2017
The bird on the left is suggestive of a juvenile, but without any real evidence.
The bird on the right is just about to land. We have no idea what followed.
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Image Taken on 08 Apr 2017
at 09:53 Image of day on 24 May 2017
A Magpie landing on the tree-stump provides a detailed view of the
black/grey edges to the flight feathers.
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Image Taken on 22 Dec 2018
at 14:14 Image of day on 28 Jan 2019
A Magpie making a dynamic landing on the tree-stump.
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Image Taken on 20 Apr 2017
at 16:02 Image of day on 19 Jun 2017
Isn't Magpie plumage just wonderful? Primary (flight) feathers outlined
in black and sharp white-black transition lined up diagonally across
sequences of feathers
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Image Taken on 30 May 2022
at 10:30 Image of day on 07 Jul 2022
A couple of Magpie landings.
The bird on the left seems to have some sort of food pellet in the beak.
If one of our neighbours tells us what it is we will insert the info here.
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Image Taken on 16 Jan 2024
at 03:21 Image of day on 06 Feb 2024
This Magpie spends about 7 minutes on and around the Meadow Post.
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Image Taken on 08 Jan 2025
at 15:17 Image of day on 15 Feb 2025
Grab the food even if you have barely landed.
Perhaps the corn always moves in the down draft from the bird's aerobraking
and their mental equipment says 'grab it before it gets away'.
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Image Taken on 22 Apr 2024
at 16:45 Image of day on 16 May 2024
The Magpie nest collecting has quietened down (or maybe they have run out of
old hedge cuttings where there are cameras) but here we see a landing with one
of these awkward and spiky Blackthorn twigs messing up the bird's landing with
all that extra weight at the front.
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Image Taken on 11 Jan 2025
at 13:55 Image of day on 15 Feb 2025
... but landings don't always go as intended.
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