there's an amazingly choonfull brid down here in NZ
Grey Warbler. Tiny tiny thing, but so loud. Sings proper little tunes and arpeggios. They are all very different in the notes they choose too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TjGw88r_-g
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Mon 18 Oct 2021, 6:17,
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My sister does this with mandarins off her tree
sticks them in a wire container and it's covered with brids every day
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Mon 18 Oct 2021, 9:31,
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The difference between the NZ magpie and its UK cousin never ceases to amaze me
Mellifluous and beautiful as opposed to a maracas player with smoker's cough.
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Mon 18 Oct 2021, 12:10,
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lovely hey
Strictly speaking it's Australian and an invasive pest species but when you get a few singing outside your window it's hard to complain
UK version sounds like a football rattle
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Mon 18 Oct 2021, 13:31,
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im suprised enough of them survive.to adulthood
in the past two weeks ive had two magpie fledglings in my backyard. they often leave the nest a few weeks before they're ready to fly, with mummy and daddy magpie calling plaintively in the surrounding trees and looking distressed, giving me the evil eye, their baby squawking and flapping ineffectually around my vegie patch, and my dog going nuts. The first one somehow made it onto the road and got hit by a car, the last one is somewhere behind my shed still not flying
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 18 Oct 2021, 13:55,
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