Re: [cobirds] Magpies

As common as they and as much as most long-time CO residents shrug off magpies, posts about them never fail to generate the greatest number of genuinely interested replies!

Not much for me to add beyond this observation about us birders and the wonder that magpies seem to inspire in us. Around western Centennial, they seem to start forming roving flocks over the summer. It's neat. Blue Jays seem to do this, too. While I haven't made special note of these in eBird, a few weeks ago, I spotted nearly a dozen magpies on top of a storefront in Streets of Southglenn. A flock of nearly the same number of Blue Jays moved through my yard a few weeks ago. 

- Jared Del Rosso

Centennial, CO

On Thursday, August 15, 2024 at 8:12:02 AM UTC-6 Charlie Chase wrote:

Warm afternoon at the Arsenal.   Had a small group of 8 Magpies feeding on and around the Bison lounging at the Arsenal.  As a bull was rolling the Magpies sitting on him simply adjusted to stay on whatever side was up.  In the larger herd were about 350 starlings also feeding on and around the resting herd.  No birds in the image below-that picture was useless.

Charlie

Denver

On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 5:15 PM 'Hugh Kingery' via Colorado Birds <cob...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

They showed up this morning in big numbers. We counted 36 magpies -- after not seeing any for a while.

Hugh

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