From my office window I get either gulls or starlings; yesterday a very characterful magpie put in appearance & did some highly entertaining gymnastics on next door's guttering, before flying onto the roof of our WC annexe and looking right in my window to see what I was up to. Hello, hello, hello, quoth I, a single magpie being a creature of ill-omen but quite frankly a happier bird I have not seen. One for sorrow? I was smiling for the rest of the day!