Getting out the Winter woolies. It's still quite warm though. Magpies are gathering into Autumn bachelor flocks and larikinizing around the place. Our Spring babies hardly speak to us now. Soon they'll pretend not to know us when they're with their wild friends. We know that two of them are an item - Mrs Peepers and Archie. She is a bossy hen-pecking type and he is aloof with everyone except her. He fell in love with her when they were very small and he was an awkward, shy youngster with no tail. We rather suspect that she had something to do with his tail-less condition but were never actually able to pin anything on her.
Our other Magpies - Godzilla and Flattop were born late in the season and are smaller. We won't know their gender for a while yet but I think they are little girls. Archie may have himself a little harem. Joy