Sound up!! 🔊

I observed this gorgeous #magpie and its mate for a couple of minutes last night. I named him ‘Mitch’. I’m guessing he was the male.

Was around sunset and he allowed me to get quite close.

Mitch appeared trusting, perhaps realising I was no threat. I saw these two earlier as I meandered along the street, taking pictures of the sunset and a few lovely flowers in their neighbourhood. They may have vetted me already and gave the ‘thumbs up!’ 👍

So this is the last 30 seconds of the recording.

#Altext:

It shows Mitch the Magpie leaping up, with a quick flap of wings, onto a public water outlet cover.

Anyways, he’s using the top of the cover to scrape away excess food and gunk, I guess, from his beak as some birds do.

Then after a car passes (he watches it, then appears to look back at me as I rise from my knee filming… he ruffles his feathers and decides to fly off leaving us with a wonderful audio of his flapping wings.

Just as he heads off, another buddy of his decides to voice the magpie’s characteristic cheery song from the powerlines, before taking flight and flying away too!

#narrm #melbourne #victoria #Australia #makesmehappy #magpie #birdsofmastodon #birdsOfOz