On Black Mountain this morning seven magpies were mobbing (but not
swooping) an echidna. A Pied Currawong and four Crimson Rosellas were
attracted to the noise. Having found the echidna and apparently having
decided it posed an existential threat to Magpiedom, the maggies
thereafter did not seem quite to know what to do with it. The magpie
pictured was the one which got closest to the echnidna. They kept up
their calling for a while, appeared to realize that the echidna was
ignoring them completely, and then flew off in ones and twos.
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