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handmade ghost

Black-billed magpie happy-stomping around the grassy verge of the marsh trail this weekend.

Fresh, green scene of a narrow strip of kempt & matted grass surrounded by less tended grass. Tromping merrily from right to left across this path is a gorgeous corvid bird with a glossy black head, black and white body, and long, glossy black tail that swoops up a bit at the end. The bird (a black-billed magpie) has eir left leg planted firmly in the grass while the other is lifted up and forward, talons lifted, as e takes one giant step forward. The early morning sun is bright and warm and shows off both the magpie's glossy orca markings and the splash of vivid, jaylike blue iridescence on eir folded wings.
21 comments
Dan McCullough

@handmade_ghost This would be a fab screensaver. (Do people still use those?)

handmade ghost

@danmccullough I would love a screensaver with this friend just stomping around! Lol. I know my wife has a screensaver on her computer, but other than that I don't usually see them (then again, my own laptop is just a glorified typewriter). 🤔

GoodNewsGreyShoes🔞

@handmade_ghost Oh to be a magpie, happily stomping around the grassy verge of a marsh trail somewhere far away from asphalt on a warm, bright sorting day. 🥹♥️🙏🥰

That's the good stuff, right there. 😎🐦

handmade ghost

@GoodNewsGreyShoes Yes! It was such a happy little moment. 🥹💚

Jan K.

@handmade_ghost I didn't know there are other kinds of magpie over the globe. that's why I always had Elster ("magpie") without any additions to it in my head. Nature Toots never cease to surprise me

handmade ghost

@Nihtgenga I used to think this also! I love finding new surprises. 💚

Deer Witch, Cypress of Baths

@handmade_ghost ghostie you get magpies over there?? :O imma need to make a trip when I find my binos again, I love themmmm

handmade ghost

@moss They pop up around the margins of my town (and sometimes in one of the local parks)! I love them so much. 🖤🤍🖤

Bryan Wright

@handmade_ghost
Yesterday I saw crow imperiously stomping along the side of an interstate onramp, inspecting the cars as they went by.

Crow's inner monologue:

"Okay. Okay. Move along. Mmm-hmm, you'll do. Next. Next...."

handmade ghost

@catselbow Ha! That is peak corvid energy. They should probably all wear those little old-fashioned custodian helmets. 😂

Bryan Wright

@handmade_ghost

If you start a charity that provides little constable helmets to crows, I'll contribute to it.

handmade ghost

@awiltedrose Little known fact: Magpies are really good at Red Light, Green Light.

Grant Canterbury

@handmade_ghost "You must be this tall to attack the city."

handmade ghost

@dendroica lolol *assembles tiny city made of grasses*

Peter Roe 🪶

@handmade_ghost I *really* wish we had magpies where I live.

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