17-04-12, 06:27 PM
I was wainting to pull out of a T juction in Dulwich today and I saw a young Jay perched on some railings calling to what I asumed was its mother on the pavement. My view was restricted by the passenger door. When stone me! up flies a Magpie and starts feeding it.I know that other birds are fooled into rearing Cookoos, and that Crows, Rooks, Ravens magpies and Jays as well as others or all part of the same sub order. But a Magpie feeding a Jay! How unusual is this in the bird world?
I though that maybe the Magpie might have lost it's young or something and had taken up foster caring.
I though that maybe the Magpie might have lost it's young or something and had taken up foster caring.
Some say that he eats habanero chilli peppers dipped in oil of capsaicin for extra bite and that his pyjamas are made from Nomex. All we know is, he's called Ad the Bad