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Accompanied by the latest episode of Secrets of the London Underground with bits about the Ruislip Engineering Depot and Warren Street station, and some other stuff
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Just saw six magpies down on the lawn. With a little observation, it became clear that four of them were juveniles and two were adults, so probably a family training session. They were all fairly near to each other, but seemed to have divvied it up as one adult to two juveniles.
One of the young ones grabbed a rose from the flowerbed (not sure if it plucked it from the plant) and took it on to the lawn at the edge of the flowerbed where it started pulling it to bits and pecking at the centre as its sibling circled round it trying to get a bit. Then the adult with those two chivvied them both and they all flew off together through the trees along the road. One of the remaining juveniles then found the rose by the flowerbed, picked it up, and went hopping around among the rose bushes with it in its mouth for a bit. Eventually, the remaining adult chivvied it and its sibling until they both flew into a tree by the gate, where the adult followed them a few moments later.
Not sure what the lesson being imparted to the young ones was, but it seemed to be along the lines of "Don't pick the flowers, and don't go hopping around with a rose in your mouth"
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