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Katarina wrote:
"Just a few comments on the European Magpie feeding
habits. The gentleman
feeding the bird must have put out something more than
just birdseed.
Magpies must be VERY desperate to eat seeds(sunflower, hemp,
oats, barley
and wheat), in fact I don´t think I have ever seen that happen.
Occationaly
they discover the odd peanut that is blended into our commercial
birdseed
mixtures and show some interest. Usually they go for insects, food
scraps,
dog food or anything that is edible(including road killed magpies!).
Don´t
think the poor bird starved to death."
Perhaps it was feeding on insects hanging around
the feeder?
I wasn't there and can only speculate.
Alan
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