Who knows about magpies?
 

One for bird nuts out there. I was looking my garden the other day, counting up "One for a boy, two for a girl" etc as I spotted what looked like quite a few magpies. Does anybody know what 11 magpies is? Apart from vastly too many for one garden, obviously!

Re: Who knows about magpies?
 

Doesn't go up to 11 sorry :p

1 for sorrow
2 for joy
3 for a girl and
4 for a boy
5 for silver
6 for gold
7 is a secret never to be told
8 is a wish and
9 is a kiss
10 is a bird you must not miss

Re: Who knows about magpies?
 

One for sorrow
Two for luck
Three for a wedding
Four for death
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret not to be told
Eight for Heaven
Nine for Hell
And ten for the Devil
Eleven for love
and twelve for a dove

Re: Who knows about magpies?
 

My grandma saluted a lone magpie the other year, tripped over the kerb and broke her arm.

Apparently she now salutes a lone magpie in a rather different manner.

Re: Who knows about magpies?
 

Thirteen for your missus coming home early and catching you looking at porn on the net.

Re: Who knows about magpies?
 

One is too many. They kill almost as many fledgling birds as cats each year.

When a group of them, and their hangers-on (usually crows), start making a racket you can bet some poor scrawny thing that's just been encouraged out of it's nice cosy nest is being murdered. Or a wood pigeon that just happened to be in the wrong place. Hateful things. Thankfully the dog chases them when she spots one in the garden but she's not out there all the time.

Can you tell I don't like them?

Re: Who knows about magpies?
 

The Toon ?

Re: Who knows about magpies?
 

11 magpies??

you've got the Geordie's squatting in your garden

Re: Who knows about magpies?
 

they are difficult to shoot...and they taste nasty..?

anything else you would like to know?

Re: Who knows about magpies?
 

yes I would like to know what drove you to try eating a magpie?