Philip - The relevant sentence in your
booklet is: "Nest building commences and peaks in July and is
finished by October". The graph in the COG atlas suggests a slightly
later conclusion, and is as follows:
Bob’s mot – and you do sometimes need
to be on your toes for these - related to the photograph (see below) which
showed the magpie holding some whisker-like twigs, so as to suggest, perhaps, a
cat, but making me think, for some reason, of the Martians in early Buck Roger
comics.
Alastair - I doubt that your bird is a Pectoral Sandpiper,
if that’s what you’re thinking, but I’m not the expert.
g
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Subject: magpie nesting
Hi All,
I point out once again, that my 21 Year GBS Report
contains full descriptions of the timing of breeding from the GBS and the
second and third edition includes the graphs of these, so the Magpie is
certainly included. This will give an indication as to how ordinary or not it
is to have nest building now (I think after the peak but I do not have the book
with me now as I am in a hotel lobby.) The data were collected and analysed and
published for a reason (this reason). So questions about the timing of the phases
of nesting are easily answered there.
Sorry Bob though I am lost about the comment about
"photo of the Magpie imitating a Cat-Bird."
Philip
>
> Margaret, while the vocal imitations by some birds
of other birds are =
> well documented, but I must congratulate you on your
photo of the Magpie =
> imitating a Cat-Bird. Well done, this is a
really rare occurrence.
>
> Cheers=20
> Bob Rusk
