Wednesday 23 June 2021

Magpie Stash for England

Could one of the tactics to win the Euro championship be to ensure your opponents contract Covid and have to self-isolate? 

Who is this Hublot chap that keeps coming on whenever there's a substitution? He seems to come on for every substitution in every game, but manages to look totally different each time.

I saw a strange behaviour in some magpies this morning - a behaviour I was unaware of in birds.


I had thrown some stale bread on the garden. A couple of magpies came down and had their fill; however, once they'd satiated their hunger, they began to collect 2 or 3 pieces of bread at a time and then stash it in some of the long grass in our unmown patches.

They kept doing this until it was all gone. Clever little buggers. There have been a lot of studies of Magpies hiding food for later use and they seem to have an accurate, long-term memory for where they left it.


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