I saw the neatest/strangest thing today. It was a magpie either pestering, hunting, driving off, or playing with a squirrel. Hunting was actually my first thought, and I've never seen a magpie hunt before, I've always thought they were scavengers, but if it was hunting, it was doing a pretty poor job. It was jumping on the squirrel, more or less.
So did the magpie have a nest nearby and did it think the squirrel was a threat? Possibly. I can't read human minds, let alone birds or small mammals. It was fun to watch though because neither of them got lost, and when the squirrel got away the magpie looked a little perplexed. I almost wanted to point at the tree and say, "He went up there!"
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by Tabby at 6/07/2004 07:52:00 p.m.