Seriously?
Why not Maggie pie?
Wikipedia: References dating back to Old English call the bird a "pie", derived from the Latin pica and cognate to French pie; this term has fallen out of use.[6] The magpie was originally variously maggie pie and mag pie.[7] The term "pica" for the human disorder involving a compulsive desire to eat items that are not food is borrowed from the Latin name of the magpie (Pica pica), for its reputed tendency to feed on miscellaneous things.[8]
Sorry for an old-timers sarcasm.
On Friday, July 26, 2024 at 8:49:50 AM UTC-6 dgulb...@gmail.com wrote:
Surely not, but some are trying. 2 days in a row I happenedto witness a family of 4 making a commotion around mytrellised grape vine. The adults kept darting at the leaves, whilethe youngsters were pecking at the ground. (The default behaviorof the beetles when disturbed is to let go of the leaf and simplydrop to the ground (where my eyes can't find them, but birds surelycould).I see no other explanation besides their eating the beetles. The grapesthemselves are still hard green, and there is no sign of broken clusterson the ground.David Gulbenkian Crown Hill, Jeffco
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