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Image Taken on 25 Jun 2022 at 10:22    Image of day on 16 Aug 2022

Patience is NOT a virtue that young Magpies possess. FOOD!!!


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Image Taken on 18 Jun 2015 at 05:28    Image of day on 13 Aug 2015

The juvenile Magpie has not even finished landing and he is demanding food from a parent out of crop to the right.


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Image Taken on 13 Jul 2019 at 18:00    Image of day on 01 Sep 2019

Mum or Dad Magpie seems to be jumping down from the stone as one of their eternally hungry Juveniles demands yet MORE.


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Image Taken on 24 Jun 2019 at 17:24    Image of day on 07 Aug 2019

The whole area is now full of screaming youngsters demanding MORE FOOD, Magpies predictably making the most noise about it.


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Image Taken on 09 Jul 2015 at 07:49    Image of day on 14 Sep 2015

Who would be a Corvid parent?
Your offspring is bigger than you are and are still demanding food.
Sounds like human teenagers?


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Image Taken on 19 Jun 2020 at 07:20    Image of day on 25 Jul 2020

There seems to be an endless supply of hungry young Magpies.


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Image Taken on 11 Jul 2020 at 12:11    Image of day on 21 Aug 2020

FOOD!
What do you mean - you are old enough to feed yourself!


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Image Taken on 22 Jun 2022 at 05:24    Image of day on 06 Aug 2022

Here you can see the Red gape that the adults are keyed to fill with as much food as they can find.


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Image Taken on 21 Jun 2022 at 18:20    Image of day on 06 Aug 2022

Demanding (begging seems to be too weak a description!) juvenile Magpies are to be seen regularly at the hedge bottom.


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Image Taken on 30 Jun 2015 at 17:52    Image of day on 01 Sep 2015

"I said F O O D"
Are 'teenagers' the same regardless of species?


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Image Taken on 10 Jun 2020 at 17:01    Image of day on 14 Jul 2020

"Hey - I want some of that"
The second juvenile magpie flies between parent and his sibling in the hope of grabbing the food for themselves.


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Image Taken on 22 Jun 2022 at 18:08    Image of day on 06 Aug 2022

A juvenile Magpie arrives already demanding food before they have even landed!


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Image Taken on 21 Jul 2021 at 07:27    Image of day on 29 Aug 2021

A young Magpie sits high in this conifer watching the world go by.
This is about 7.30 a.m. - it will soon become unpleasantly hot to sit out in the direct sunlight.


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Image Taken on 14 Jul 2019 at 16:54    Image of day on 01 Sep 2019

"FOOD".
This is on the tree-stump in the daytime 'gloom' inside the woodland.


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Image Taken on 14 Jul 2019 at 16:54    Image of day on 01 Sep 2019

The flash shines down into the young Magpies open beak, and the translucent keratin glows red at the base of the beak.


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Image Taken on 05 Jul 2016 at 05:26    Image of day on 24 Aug 2016

A young Magpie in the clover with the partially developed tail feathers spread out at the rear.


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Image Taken on 09 Jun 2015 at 19:22    Image of day on 13 Aug 2015

A couple of Magpie youngsters making it very clear to the adult on the right that they want - F O O D - N O W
Our first sighting of Magpie youngsters this year is in a frame a few minutes previous


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Image Taken on 11 Jul 2016 at 07:27    Image of day on 26 Aug 2016

Stereophonic Screeching?
We assume that the two begging Magpies are making their 'Feed Me' demand to the poor overworked parent in the middle.


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Image Taken on 24 Jun 2013 at 05:12    Image of day on 06 Aug 2013

A bit of confusion here - The arriving juvenile Magpie doesn't realise that the bird at the feeder is probably it's sibling and they are begging from each other.


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Image Taken on 23 Jun 2019 at 18:26    Image of day on 07 Aug 2019

We have repeatedly seen an adult Magpie with juveniles demanding food from either side. We guess we are seeing Mum and Dad at different time, each looking after 2 of their youngsters.


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