Minty
the youngest
chased by everyone
squawking for some food

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hand feeding a magpie mealy grubs with chop sticks 😊 🥢🪱

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Peace is maintained through equal food allocation between North and South magpie clan. The house is the DMZ.

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Morning Minty

Minty (3 stripes on right wing) is the youngest in the clan and has learned to feed while everyone else is distracted. Magpies are positive and negative re-enforcement learners.

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Morning Minty

Minty, 3 wing stripes is the youngest in the clan and has learned to feed when everyone else is distracted. Magpies are positive and negative re-enforcement learners. If it works once I’ll try again. If not, I’ll try something different.

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♬ ♬ ♬
has food?
now I have,
I eat in ☮️ away from you

New batch of Insectivore mix delivered. I add this supplement to reduce calcium deficiencies. Pushy rocked up with a limp last year. It could have been an injury, more likely the 8 offspring have resulted in calcium leaching weakening her bones.

Magpies are insectivores and absorb insect calcium via shell casings for strong bones.

#Pushy / #BirdsOfOz / #FloreatPica / #fortification <https://abc.net.au/news/2018-10-18/these-foods-could-be-hurting-your-backyard-magpies/10365712>

♬ ♬ ♬
has food?
now I have,
I eat in ☮️ away from you

New batch of Insectivore mix delivered. I add this supplement to reduce calcium deficiencies. Pushy rocked up with s limp last year. It could have been an injury, more likely the 8 offspring have resulted in calcium leaching weakening her bones.

Magpies are insectivores and absorb insect calcium via shell casings for strong bones.

#Pushy / #BirdsOfOz / #FloreatPica / #fortification <https://abc.net.au/news/2018-10-18/these-foods-could-be-hurting-your-backyard-magpies/10365712>

♬ ♬ ♬
has food?
now I have,
I eat in ☮️ away from you

New batch of Insectivore mix delivered. I add this supplement to reduce calcium deficiencies. Pushy rocked up with s limp last year. It could have been an injury, more likely the 8 offspring have resulted in calcium leaching weakening her bones.

Magpies are insectivores and absorb those insects calcium for strong bones.

#Pushy / #BirdsOfOz / #FloreatPica / #fortification <https://abc.net.au/news/2018-10-18/these-foods-could-be-hurting-your-backyard-magpies/10365712>

@Myphatself My local birds are my #BirdNet. Nothing happens in my area without the birds knowing.

They tell me, if I listen what’s happening around the property. An ancestral magpie my Great Grandfather took a photo of a hundred years ago.

#BirdsOfAus / #FloreatPica #magpies <https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/6713547405/in/album-72157628909196471/>

Minty

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Pushy

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♬ ♬ ♬

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Pushy

Feeding high energy live food can be problematic. Leave a bowl out and the pecking order means the youngest or most needy (Squeak, Minty) miss out to Pushy or Mouse. Spot ignores live food 🤣

So metering out food or demand feeds by single birds can help.

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Pushy

Feeding live food can be problematic. Eat too many 🐛s and the birds fatten up. Most are too shy to do this via sticks, so they miss out.

If I leave a bowl unattended, pecking order comes into play and the most needy miss out.

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Pushy being patient with me 🐛🥢

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Pushy #BirdsOfAus / #FloreatPica #magpies

Minty #BirdsOfAus / #FloreatPica #magpies

Food

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So which of my birds caught the rodent today? 🐁

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