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What do 12 magpies stand for?

November 26th, 2006

Our garden gets a funny mix of birds.  Being close to the coast, seagulls are fairly frequent visitors.  The area also has quite a lot of mature trees, so we hear wood pigeons too.  Probably the most noticeable are the magpies, which strut up and down the garden regularly.

You may have come across the nursery rhyme about counting blackbirds in a tree.  The rhyme only goes up to 7, but we’ve regularly seen more than this in one tree.  Our top number was 12…Let us know if you can think up a category for that.

The gardens around here have intersecting fences and walls, which makes it perfect for cats, squirrels and other wildlife with enough balance to move from garden to garden.

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