Magpie so proud
Waistcoat ~ loud ~
You stalk your way over the lawn
Fetch the worms
Out
And tip warm eggs
Out
Of nests
You miserable bird
Polly Robinson © 2013
Polly
Writings and Witterings
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14/03/2013 at 19:24
Shameless things, really, what they do to other birds.
14/03/2013 at 19:49
Vermin
14/03/2013 at 19:59
My grandma, who was a most peaceful woman and farmer, hated magpies. She said they took baby chicks as well (or at the very least pecked them to death), plus any shiny things you had lying around. Of course, I had the city-dwellers romantic view and kept syaing: ‘But they are so pretty…’
14/03/2013 at 20:06
I know people who shoot them because they do so much damage ~ I’m not advocating that, but understand how they come to be viewed as pests
14/03/2013 at 20:02
No one likes a bully…
14/03/2013 at 20:06
Good word for them, Carrie
they’re thieves too, by all accounts.
14/03/2013 at 21:05
You should do a book with Birds of Britain – a photo and a poem for each!
14/03/2013 at 21:10
Now there’s a thought
14/03/2013 at 21:56
Great idea Roland! She should, shouldn’t she!
14/03/2013 at 21:06
Great poem – and to the point!!!
14/03/2013 at 21:11
heh-heh ~ a few words work sometimes
14/03/2013 at 21:12
My next book will be Magpie based – dark and a bit Gothic
14/03/2013 at 21:14
How fascinating ~ good luck with it
14/03/2013 at 21:16
I’m hoping if it gets onto any book shelves it will push all the other books off
14/03/2013 at 21:17
hahahahahahahahahahahaha boom boom! Nice one
14/03/2013 at 21:18
14/03/2013 at 21:56
I loved the end line – to be said with such scorn!
14/03/2013 at 21:57
Oh yes, with great emphasis
14/03/2013 at 23:05
We have swarms of them around our way. They’re dicks!
15/03/2013 at 04:29
What is the collective noun, I wonder?
15/03/2013 at 00:43
Miserable is right.
15/03/2013 at 04:29
… and wicked …
15/03/2013 at 06:54
The Midwestern equivalent *also Northeastern* is probably the blue jay. They swoop down and bully other, sweeter birds off the bird feeders. The way this thing is running, there can be nothing good about that feathered FIEND! Thanks, Polly! Amy
http://sharplittlepencil.com/2013/03/13/snow-bizness/
15/03/2013 at 07:07
You’re right Amy. Both blue jays and magpies belong to the family Corvidae. They are beautiful to look at, gorgeous, stunning, but … beneath the exquisite exterior lurks malice … as you say ‘feathered fiends’ ~ such is nature.
15/03/2013 at 20:14
mischievous winged-ones. we have crows of the corvid family, and starlings- cosmopolitan omnivores- wreaking it up.
great read, Polly!
16/03/2013 at 02:31
Good to see you liked ‘Magpie’ Jane
24/03/2013 at 14:28
ha. makes you wonder who messed his life up enough that he must take it out on the rest….why is he miserable….
24/03/2013 at 14:35
Here’s a fascinating article that tells you more about them Brian: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7316384.stm
25/03/2013 at 11:49
But they’re so pretty~
26/03/2013 at 09:27
… and such a wrecker!