Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

PasturesNew

StevieJ wrote: »

What is your newsletter about?

Well, at the moment it's an amateurish garble of stuff about nothing

It's not for intelligent people. It's not interesting... it's not even clever.

carolt

Too modest, I'm sure. (Not that I know what it is, but based on general past form...)

vivatifosi

Evening all. A question if I may. Has anyone ever experienced strange Magpie behaviour?

At about 5am this morning a small flock of Magpies (or whatever the correct collective noun is) decided to create havoc where I live. After seeing the glint from the vase on my windowsill, they tried to get in through my open bedroom window, then went crazy in the back garden. I was trying to fix some old shiny solar lights so they knocked them all off my garden table before the three of them took on the metal top of my rotary washing line (which was standing up against a fence) and knocked the whole thing over. And the racket! They were behaving like totally thuggish nutters!

I know that they like shiny stuff, but their behaviour was just very odd. Any ideas?

Ellie2758

mmmmmmmmmmmmm shiny, shiny, shiny

is it a full moon?

vivatifosi wrote: »

Evening all. A question if I may. Has anyone ever experienced strange Magpie behaviour?

At about 5am this morning a small flock of Magpies (or whatever the correct collective noun is) decided to create havoc where I live. After seeing the glint from the vase on my windowsill, they tried to get in through my open bedroom window, then went crazy in the back garden. I was trying to fix some old shiny solar lights so they knocked them all off my garden table before the three of them took on the metal top of my rotary washing line (which was standing up against a fence) and knocked the whole thing over. And the racket! They were behaving like totally thuggish nutters!

I know that they like shiny stuff, but their behaviour was just very odd. Any ideas?

vivatifosi

Ellie2758 wrote: »

mmmmmmmmmmmmm shiny, shiny, shiny

is it a full moon?

No idea, but the little bl**ders woke me up and kept me awake with their thuggery. Hoping for a better night sleep tonight.

Malcolm.

Magpie bahaviour.... I notice many people have been stockpiling gold and silver, does that count?

vivatifosi

Malcolm. wrote: »

Magpie bahaviour.... I notice many people have been stockpiling gold and silver, does that count?

Aha! Hadn't thought of that. It was actually llubrevlis, asheron and one of their mates causing havoc. That makes more sense...

Malcolm.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Aha! Hadn't thought of that. It was actually llubrevlis, asheron and one of their mates causing havoc. That makes more sense...

I did wonder what they did when not on here. Hope you get a good nights sleep!

treliac

vivatifosi wrote: »

............. and knocked the whole thing over. And the racket! They were behaving like totally thuggish nutters!

I know that they like shiny stuff, but their behaviour was just very odd. Any ideas?

They can be nasty murdering thugs. I've seen them go for the kill after other birds. They are merciless creatures and may have been finishing off some other poor hapless bird.

John_Pierpoint

I think it is well known that Magpies collect shiny stuff; after all we call someone a "magpie" who hoards a collection of stuff.
So expect "first day of the sales" behaviour.
[I was doing an oil change on the car once and a magpie swooped down to grab the socket (as of socket spanner) I had been using.
Fortunately it was too heavy/slippery and it dropped the socket half way down the garden]

http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/9685/part_2/to-kill-a-magpie.thtml

http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=9141982&sort=postdate