Around 8:30 am this morning 2 July I was surprised to see one of our resident magpies flying up to last year’s nest situated fairly low over a public path and then settle down and size it for at least a couple of minutes while one of its
mates looked on from the nearby wires.
About 10 minutes later It then approached the nest again this time with one bird only a couple of metres away in the tree and a third (a threesome has stayed together all of the non-breeding season after raising 1 young which was then unfortunately
run over) on the wires.
A pretty early record – last year I first noticed them building on 22 July, but one that just sneaks on to the 2015-2016 GBS chart!
Jack Holland
