Australian magpie family bath day interrupted by rainbow lorikeets - birds having a blast in water
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2023
- Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen) are territorial songbirds. I finally caught our whole Australian magpie family on film around the birdbath - though Mrs Magpie only showed up later in the afternoon.
Pauly and his son (?) jump in and go to town. They both end up in there at once a couple of times.
The other two juveniles don't jump in.
Two rainbow lorikeets (Trichoglossus moluccanus) show up and push the magpies off the birdbath; they come back again later and do the same thing. I don't think Junior likes them...
I'm so glad I managed to catch this on camera - I hope it puts a smile on your face.
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This video shows just how maggie magpies are. Pauly first takes a drink twice, then a quick face wash,, then in for a bath. Watching this family dynamic plus the rainbow lorikeets who are rather bullish and very vocal. Just superb!
Sometimes he doesn't even drink before he jumps in, but you're quite right about the dynamics. The juvenile girls (if I'm right) are more restrained...
Cheers.
Now that’s a magpie who loves his bath
Yup, do concur that those birds are indeed having a blast!
None of the honeyeater style of flying quick dips, just jump in and go for it!
Come on in the water's fine, I can almost hear Pauly saying to the kids!
That was wonderful. Thanks for sharing.🦜🦜
No worries, thanks for the positive feedback.
@@mybackyard36 I ❤❤ Magpies such characters , I feed them fresh mice and I have bird bath front and back yard 🥰👍
It is lovely to see the birds just living their lives.The big one seems to be hogging the pool,but the other two are very polite and wait their turn.
Well...I think they're young females. And I've never seen Mrs Magpie take a bath. Junior does everything his dad does and the two "polite" birds follow their mum around and learn from her. Since she doesn't bathe, these little ladies don't either.
That's my take on it. Either that or the girls are rolling their eyes at Junior's antics...
@@mybackyard36
The 'girls' rolling their eyes at Pauly's antics😂🇦🇺
😂 what characters…. Obviously you’ve got the best bath in the hood
I'd like to think so. I've got some improvements to the...seating...ah, perching options coming soon too.
Cheers,
Murray.
@@mybackyard36 😂They are certainly getting the VIP (Very important Pies) treatment at your place. What a luxurious life x
I love magpies. I have a couple of magpies that hang around on my deck. They bring there new babies to show me every year. The babies are so funny to watch. I also have lorikeet that come. When the babies are eating the lorikeet come to take it from them. They try to chase them but that don’t work so they get behind them and pull there tails. It’s so funny to watch. The babies sit and have a chit chat to me
The lorikeets deserve it! Noisy little thugs...they regularly bully birds at my birdbath.
9:53 that Rainbow Lorikeet made his ancestors proud, keep up the good work Murray
My local pair of magpies we have around our car parking area at work starting moulting last week as it was around 28°C in adelaide.
Always a good idea to have water around for them when they moilt as they tend to get overheated whilst being in the sun.
Something I noticed with my budgies (I'm in Germany, they're pet budgies) is that the absolutely refuse to take a bath in summer when the weather is very warm. They do feel too hot, but won't bathe to cool off. I figured it must be some instinct that in the wild it would be too dangerous for them, because so far all of my budgies behaved this way. 🤔
@@murphychurch8251 Oh really? So I'm wondering whether Budgerigars ever go into water? I know here in Australia they can be seen alongside waterways drinking but you could be right about some bathing phobia.
Canary's may be the same.
Well as long they have access to water when they need it.
I love watching the birds, having a bath.,🌿🦜🍃🦜🍃🕊
Rainbow lorikeets are little bullies, nobody dares to mess with them, and you right saying they have strong beaks. I have personally experienced that when I saved one which flew in to a glass balcony and fell unconscious in to a swimming pool below. I got it out of the pool and waited until it regain consciousness and to say thank you for my efforts promptly bit me on a finger...very painful.
Magpies are great, thou, we have our own little family of 4, the young once are great source of entertainment, very curious, playing around the garden all day long. You clip is lovely.
I love what sounds like them softly talking to each other! ❤
It's great to hear that!
Someone else said the same thing about a video of them eating under a bale and there were a lot of gentle mumblings - she said it triggered an ASMR for her and I can see that. I told her I'd put together a long video of just magpies mumbling to each other - but that it wouldn't be a priority as I've got a lot on my plate at the moment.
I've started gathering some footage as I edit newer magpie videos but I'm a long way of having it ready. I need more hours in the day...
Cheers,
Murray.
@@mybackyard36we have a family of three crows (yes, I know they are really ravens) that also share our bird baths. I love the way that on a summer’s afternoon, after a good long bathing session, they come and sit near my son, coo & warble gently to each other and grooming one another’s neck feathers. The kookaburras just squat in the water with their eyes closed
@@janmeyer3129 A non-feeding response is soooo satisfying. Mrs M associates me with food but Pauly often just hangs out. It's lovely just hanging out with birds in close proximity. It's a wonderful feeling when they have grown to trust you that much - or trust your offspring! Your boy is a lucky lad.
Love that too
@@NudePostingConspiracyTheories Still working on it! Its on the list.
Ha you need to get them a shell pool! That’s what I did and they love it! I also have toys like those balls with bells in them and I put them on an old blanket near the pool and it is hilarious to watch them.oh to add the actual bird bath I have a solar powered fountain which just floats and it is fantastic to keep the water fresh to drink and they use the pool to bathe and play
So beautiful,I have 11 tame maggies,including 5 new babies.I adore them.❤️❤️Thanks for this beautiful video.
Glad you enjoyed it. Take care.
Very diverting. Meditative, even. It was like a soap opera. Those parrots were mean.
Yes, rainbow lorikeets are thugs. But...while it was probably different individuals, one of the juvenile magpies got revenge a few weeks later:
th-cam.com/video/Vq-KQ-5K6jU/w-d-xo.html
One of my favourite videos...
Cheers.
I think you need a larger bath tub. One the size of a human bath.😅
@@malaconway2645it's better for the birds to have shallow bird baths that are easy to get out of. Birds can drown in big water sources if there is no way to get out. Sprinklers are popular with birds but water restrictions have ruled them out.
Those cantankerous lorries are all about taking their turn, not so much about taking turns 🤔
It’s all good though, plenty of water for all these cuties lol.
Love 13:19 sharing is caring
I can see why lorikeets wouldn't want to bathe with a predator standing right beside them...they're still psycho little thugs though 😀
You know, this is the first time I have seen a video of a male magpie properly bathing. Also at our place we have only ever seen the females and juveniles get into the birdbath no matter how hot it gets. Great footage👍
Thanks. I'm lucky the bath fits two!
And both males IMO - I'm certain the juvenile who has a swim is a boy. I never saw the two juvenile females who are in this video take a dip. I think it varies from bird to bird. Junior saw his dad swimming and jumped in too (this might have been his first ever bath). The girls didn't see their mum swimming so they didn't jump in.
I actually just finished setting up a video of the new male on this territory taking a dip - he does a fair amount of preening work on his flight feathers. Should be up in 15 minutes in case you're interested in another male having a bath 😁
Very enjoyable, thank you. I really enjoyed listening to them talking to each other. Nature is amazing.
No worries, glad you liked it. The sound they make made me think they may be female Rhinoceros beetles. I'll have to see if any males turn up as that might be the only way to get a positive ID - fingers crossed...
Yes they are hilarious! I have always had birdbaths wherever I go simply because it brings God's beautiful birds into my view. Love it, and thank you for filming them. Very enjoyable.
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Ook dat lief met mekaar babbelen😊..en de stoute parkiet die knaagde ad rand vd waterbak😃😍super leuk😘
Ik denk dat je deze video leuk zou vinden:
th-cam.com/video/Vq-KQ-5K6jU/w-d-xo.html
Een fijne dag.
I'm pretty sure near the start the adult is teaching the young one how to bath and clean.
Obviously these are Northern Magpies as they have shorter white or grey colouring on their backs/necks.
Had an interesting interaction with a mother magpie on saturday down along the coast here in SA. I fed her and her family some live crickets late last year. Haven't seen the family since but the Mother appeared out of nowehere. She jumped up on my drivers side mirror and peered into my car looking at me.
I only had a small piece of bread left from lunch.
They go crazy over crickets and grasshoppers.
I agree. The youngster looks like a first-time but he gets the hang of it pretty quickly.
Yes, Black-backed Aussie magpies. But I'd say the don't have shorter white colouring, I'd say the southern variety has longer white colouring.
I've read that they can recognise around 100 human faces. You're obviously one of the ones she likes 😄
I do catch the occasional huge grasshopper and give it to them if they're around. Better in a magpie than in my garden.
Cheers,
Murray.
@@mybackyard36 thats what I meant, the southern maggies have the grey or white backs whereas the northern have the grey or white neck colouring.
Only this morning my Mother maggie at work was pecking away in the soil of the car parking gardens. I like that if you call them they look at you and its like their listening to you.
I have a special liking for not only Magpies but Mudlarks, Willie wagtails, Currawongs, Red & Brush wattlebirds and Masked lapwings.
@@garynewton1263 Sorry - my idea of a joke. Everyone thinks their local variety of magpies are the "normal" ones was where I was headed with that.
We call mudlarks peewees around here - I like them too, and butcher birds a bit more - more of a songbird, plenty of personality. Our magpies chase butcher birds of their patch along with currawongs. In one of my very first birdbath vids there were two sneaky currawongs who snuck into a place they knew they shouldn't be...and I've never seen them again actually. I think their territory is somewhere to the north-west of the back of my place.
We don't get wattlebirds up here so far as I know but our territorial wagtail often follows me around to see if I scare up any grasshoppers etc and he likes to think he owns the birdbath.
Cheers,
Murray.
Your so lucky. I envy you..
It took me ages to realise how cool my back yard is and how lucky I am. That's what made me get a camera and start to share it.
Cheers,
Murray.
Beautiful family 💕
Really lively video i have never seen them bathing specially the whole family, thank you 😊 ❤🙏
No worries, thanks for the feedback and have a good one 😁👍👍
I drove past a unit complex in the early evening after some storm rain and I could see quite a number of magpies around the balcony of one lower unit. A man was just going back inside that unit, and I guessed he might have just finished giving them all a little food to eat. There was quite a number of them eagerly hanging about and it was a lovelly sight to see. Those magpies always brighten your day when you see them. Love this video, makes you smile to see them having some fun and some cool water on the hotter days. Thsnks for your video. I also keep a large bird bath for the birds, but funny thing is, some of the local dogs on their walk take a dip in it too which is good too.
Even though I've got a bird bath which is regularly cleaned and filled up with fresh water, Pauly chooses the dirtier option! You're right about brightening your day - if I haven't seen them for a couple of days I'll make a point of finding Pauly and having a chat.
Have a good one 😀
Thank you. Love ❤️
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This vid fell into my feed curiosity got the better. I found it absolutley facinating to watch thanks for sharing.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for letting me know. Have a good one.
Terrific film
I love magpies too
They are such personalities when you get to know them!
And lol at the baby motorboating and really going for it near the end 😂
Ahh yes I see what you mean Murray.
Yes this video has had a lot of views and also comments.
It's good to see how they get along at the birdbath.
I hope they don't complain about privacy policy issues while taking a bath.
I gather this is where son magpie developes a disliking for the rainbows and latter decided to indulge in a bit of tail feather pulling in retaliation for their bullying.
It's great footage!
Thanks for recommending this video.
Cheers
Their lawyers haven't been in touch so far. The only one still around is Pauly and I don't think he'll bother. I mean, it pays to advertise...
You're right, this is the first time Junior had Lorikeet issues (so far as I'm aware). And a couple of weeks later he came up with a bright idea. After all, they did interrupt his first bath.
The only shame about his revenge is that it was probably on different Lorikeets, but you never know - it might have been the same ones.
Cheers John.
I have a couple of birdbaths and solar water features as the bees love them too.
I gave my friend a floating solar fountain and the little birds like that. He gets more variety of birds as he has a big yard.
I get Magpies too,Doves,Myna birds.
I had a butcher bird stay for a few days. Very rarely a Kookaburra as I'm in a built-up area.
Another channel I watch a lady in Southern California makes heaps of birdbaths from various things. She made a good one with a bucket and lid with a soda bottle and a solar pump. The smaller birds love it, she has humming birds ,and the water feature stays clean longer with the design.
Another good design for small birds is a large pot with no drainage hole with a saucer at the top with a fountain coming through, the little birds like that as they sit and clean on the saucer and it doesn't need topping up for a while.
Did the magpies chase the butcher bird away? Ours won't let Currawongs (or other magpies, of course) on their territory and I saw them hunting a bunch of Peewees that have been coming onto their territory the other day. There are at least 22 Peewees that have started to come around but Pauly and Junior have started hunting them. Great to watch, the two magpies were far superior in the air.
I've got plans for perches at the moment but I hadn't thought of the needs of smaller birds. One viewer suggested a rock for them to stand on which I'm still thinking about but another bird bath might be good in case Pauly and Junior both want to jump in at the same time again.
I never saw the butcher bird being hassled, but in the time it was here, I found 3 dead birds. It's moved on now.
That channel with bird bath ideas and gardening is Robbie and Gary Gardening Easy.
You can get good ideas for the smaller birds if you make more bird baths for finches etc. Also, the bees will love it in summer to grab a drink. The bees love my big pot water feature. Sometimes, there is about 20 bees around the edge. My solar powered 2 tier fountain I put small flat stones around the edge so the bees don't fall in. Before I did that a couple got stuck in the water.
I found cheap or free water features online.
@@aussiegirl654 Wow - that's a lot of dead birds! Thank you for the channel name - I'll check it out.
Beautiful birdbath. With all the perches for them. I hope i can make a few as good as yours
Very cool
Rainbows are the best!! Have real character. Funny how they flock together but are always fighting too. We have many visiting every morning and late afternoon. Sometimes they land on me even if I'm walking in the street. There some I've known for about 8 years now. When we feed them they get the correct food, not seeds and bread etc.
It's not hard to feed birds proper food, if you feed at all. Good on you! And in their favour Rainbows aren't bigots - they fight with EVERYONE!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 When we had avairies we had to separate them from other birds. Didn't matter what size the other birds were the rainbows would bully. Mind you they would also attack any bird or cat that landed on the wire. Great to play with and extremely friendly to people. Love toys or anything that could be a toy.
@@ctempleman1401 I think it'd be handy if they came with a volume control 😁😁😁
And maybe better steering...flat out and full volume all the time!
@@mybackyard36 🤣🤣🤣 They certainly need a volume control especially dawn and dusk if they roost nearby. They loved the palm tree at my old house and were noisier than the black cockatoos.
Went camping with my granddaughter, a Magpie came along and sung a song ,so we rewarded it with some nuts !
Ah - that'll probably make it a lot more likely to sing for the next lot of campers 👍
So Fun, fhanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well done and thank you very much for posting. Very enjoyable. And a BIG thumbs up also.
Thanks Kym. I appreciate the feedback. Have a good one 😀
Brilliant job. Thanks for the vid.❤👍👍
The Nature is fascinating!
Too right!
Wonderful video. My two favorite birds.
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it.
There was a kind of sequel to this a couple of weeks later that you might find amusing, Lorikeets and Magpies again but this time Junior came out...not really on top but he won handily -
th-cam.com/video/Vq-KQ-5K6jU/w-d-xo.html
This is special. Just subscribed. Thanks 4 sharing 🎉
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for subscribing 👍
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(From Google Translate - I hope it did it's job properly.)
Got a family of maggies who fly in every day to eat our cats biscuits,silly buggers try to bathe in the cats water bowl. Fukin hilarious.
Queenslander.
Jeez...a water bowl 🤣🤣🤣
Beautiful
I appreciate the feedback - have a good one!
Thankyou for sharing !
Love it
Great video! I love feeding and watching the birds. Your birds are up so close to the camera it is great. My orange ginger cat is up staring at the TV right now because he loves watching the birds. I just subscribed to your channel because I love Magpies. I love the corvid family of birds in the Raven and the Crow family because they're so smart and cute. I love birds in general so I'll be watching your channel now. It's nice to see the adults with the babies. The lorikeets are beautiful too. You have such great birds down there in Australia. I live in the U.S. in South Carolina now which I only moved down here to south Carolina a year and a half ago. So I'm used to the birds that we had in New York state. We didn't have magpies up there in NY state but we had plenty of crows and Blue Jays, Cardinals all types of sparrows and all kinds of birds at my feeders in the winter in upstate New York. I had 27 different species of birds coming to my sunflower seed and peanut suet feeders I had lots of woodpeckers and suet loving birds . I love watching and feeding the birds since they are such heautiful creatures.
I'm with you on the Corvids! Big fan. Oh - Choughs, not so much.
If you want to try an experiment, try your cat with the Grey fantail - I was worried my cat would attack my computer when I was editing this video:
th-cam.com/video/UIDkbz3bYNU/w-d-xo.html
It was pretty funny. She really wanted that noisy bird.
Glad to have you aboard, have a good one!
I own a B and B in Hillarys, Perth and mag pies were coming to my front door for years until a few months ago the lorekeets started noticing sunflower seeds. Now the magpies dont come anymore bc.the lorekeets are Very agressive to the point of stopping to eat to peck and attack the magpies by pulling their feathers. Their visit was such a Tourist attraction bc. A couple of them would eat from my hand. They love sunflower seeds that i found cheaper at a shop selling by weight. Now only doves and the nasty ( but pretty ) lorekeets come around Several times a day. CARMEN.
Lorikeets are thugs alright. But this might put a smile on your face, all you need to do is get a birdbath the right height and find a really smart and vindictive magpie:
th-cam.com/video/Vq-KQ-5K6jU/w-d-xo.html
Cheers,
Murray.
Rainbow Lorikeets not scared to dish it out.
I live in Dandenong and we have a huge tree nearby where about 30 magpies live. I have seen at least five properties with either drink bowls or baths - I have two baths and one drinks bowl which is for smaller birds. I have eight regular magpie visitors, a raven, black birds and occasional visits from wattlebirds and lorikeets. I have to refill al the baths at least once a day.
You are providing a valuable service. Good on you.
I haven't seen any other baths/bowls around here but that doesn't mean they don't exist out of view. If I have my geography of their territory correct there are only 10 houses within their territory at present. As new houses get built there is a maximum of under 20.
I'm not used to communal magpies at all, it's an alien concept to me given I grew up with territorial pairs and their offspring.
Have a good one Ian.
😄🥰Good day from Lismore, NSW.🌏 We have three Magpies, heaps of Australian minors, and, as two families, Rainbow Lorikeets. All visit daily.
There's some good and some bad there - great for the magpies, most likely two parents and a youngster; great for the Rainbow lorikeets. Bad that the Noisy miners are about - it probably means you have not small birds around at all as the Noisy miners chase them away. Not that you can do anything about it but to enjoy the Noisy miners!
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-16/noisy-miners-are-a-problem-across-australia/101442572
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@@suchdevelopments There are so many birds who'd appreciate the Grevillias if the Noisy miners didn't chase them away. Ah well. I'm just happy they aren't a problem around my place. Yet...
@@mybackyard36We have ten small birds in the morning and evening. The minors do not worry me because of the forest we have created.
You may get smaller birds bathing if you put a stone or brick in the water that is at a tilt so that one part is above water and the other below. The water as it is is too deep for smaller birds. The stone enables them to stand on something above water and gradually go into deeper wated to bath.
Beautiful birdbath. With all the perches. I hope i can make some that good .
Thanks - if you go with a glazed birdbath, the silicone around the rim is a must or birds keep slipping. Which is hilarious but not ideal.
I changed the seating arrangements recently if you're interested - it's working well:
th-cam.com/video/3Djt9kRAMlY/w-d-xo.html
@@mybackyard36Thanks heaps for replying
Nice😊
Subscribed to your channel 👍
Glad to have you aboard.
The younger magpie gets revenge on the lorikeets a couple of weeks later and it's classically funny -
th-cam.com/video/Vq-KQ-5K6jU/w-d-xo.html
There's a re-cap you might want to skip of the original bath day.
Cheers,
Murray.
At the height of summer last year I watched rainbow lorikeets actually queuing up to bathe in water caught in the cup between branches of a Morton Bay Fig tree at the park down the road. One at a time they would jump from the branch into the water, splash around for a while, jump out onto the other branch, have a good shake, then fly back to the end of the line until it was their turn to jump into the water again - and so on, and so on, for at least half an hour
When it's hot and it's all you got - hard to believe they didn't fight over positions in line but they must have a pecking order all of their own. But those angry sods waiting in line? I'd never have thought they'd behave politely in any way.
@@mybackyard36 more like a mob of kids at the local pool queuing for a go from the diving board. Party time!
@@janmeyer3129 Ah, I get that 😁
One of my favorite birdsongs is the warbling of Ozzy magpies.
I think it's the kind of sounds that would make a good recording to play when you're trying having trouble getting to sleep. Pleasant, soothing and relaxing. And you just have to wonder if there's any meaning to it all...
@@mybackyard36 I follow an incredible Ozzy channel called Cutting Edge Engineering and he has a bunch of maggies that come into his workshop to get fed. Its really sweet and shows his hearts in the right place. I love that your guys follow you around, knowing you're going to find grub for them. They're wicked smart little buggers.
@@sama3033 And Pauly knows it's only late afternoons that work. Mrs M is new and hasn't worked that out yet...but she will. Smart as...
So cute. I have a Maggie that visits every morning. I think a girl. She sneaks into my kitchen and pinches left over cat breakfast, while I sit and watch with my coffee
Sounds very cute. I'm not sure what your cat thinks of the arrangement though, mine would be miffed.
You might be interested in this:
www.shop.themagpiewhisperer.com/blogs/articles/recognising-magpie-gender-determining-whether-a-bird-is-male-or-female
@@mybackyard36 yes she is 19 though so fairly nonchalant about birds now. Thanks for the link 🙂
So awesome to watch and listen. Thanks!
Thank you. Love watching the Magpie family & the Lorrikets.
The lorrikets don't like sharing their bath time, even with other lorrikets. The top, bossy ones make the other ones wait in line.
Fantastic video! Congratulations!
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Ratbag is a bit of a troublemaker ( just a mild one 😂)
After the drop of water gets on the lense, it looks like a bird has been blurred out to protect its identity. 😂
Ha! 😆 That or to try and hide the rude bits...
Hello Murray glad to see you and know your name, your vids are magic, I love Maggies🥰💕👌👍👍🦜
They're great birds and I appreciate your feedback. Have a good one.
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G'day Maureen! Glad to have you aboard. 😁
If you check out my channel page I a playlist for all my birdbath videos and another for all my magpie videos (I turn over hay bales to give them insects and have included all the magpie-only birdbath vids as well).
And as the magpies came by yesterday, there will be another magpie video going up in about 3 hours.
Have a good one! 👍😁👍
Oh, and there was a sequel to Magpie Family Bath Day if you haven't found it yet - the first half is a recap but Junior works out how to deal with lorikeets!
th-cam.com/video/Vq-KQ-5K6jU/w-d-xo.html
Oh we have a bag of maggies too/ I will have to get a bigger bath for them and . They knock on the door alot LOL
Good on you. If you're buying a glazed one you'll need to run some silicone around it. Hang on - I've got all my birdbath improvement videos on a separate playlist:
th-cam.com/play/PLNKZUNhNYuHsJf99khuIlGsIjwKMQEgQl.html
Hope this helps. Have a good one.
They are so beautiful! ❤️ I think as they grow you might need extra birdbaths!🥰
I might put up a "Only one bird in the birdbath at a time!" sign instead 😁😁
G'day Murray, I notice they are Northern magpies hence the white/grey only on their neck not down the their backs also.
I think you need two bird baths now.
Seems the older maggies are showing the babies how to bath?
Getting closer to that time of year when they wil start to Moult. They'll definitely need plenty of water between now and april.
Getting lots of enjoyment from this by the way. Nothings as precious as our native wildlife.
Father: look children, do what I do.
Son: okay. Look sisters, do what I do.
Sisters: no, thanks.
Haha.. that was great. Love the magpies having a splash.. loved it. Cheers from sydney Thanks😊
I appreciate the feedback and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Hope you're having a good one!
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Glad you liked it and thanks for the positive feedback - I really appreciate it.
Interesting. I have magpies, rainbows and cockatoos but none use the bird ‘bath’ for washing themselves, only drinking. And the rainbows are the top of the pecking order; they even chase off the cockatoos.
Rainbows are psychos. I've not had one bathe and the cockatoos - we get Sulphur-crested and blacks coming through - don't stop at the birdbath, or haven't so far.
A couple of weeks after this video Junior, the young male, worked out how to beat the Rainbows:
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The first half or so is backstory, feel free to skip ahead. He did well - I think it was original thought because I never saw his father do it 😁😁😁
@@mybackyard36 I should also mention how clever the magpies are in finding food. I’m not sure how they do it, but they often walk around my back yard and they will suddenly dash off about 2-3 metres and pick a grub or insect out of the ground or dash off to a bush and pick off a caterpillar. Incredible eyesight, or can they hear insects or feel them in the ground with their feet?
@@hansignals9593 I think the dashing off is visual. When they're after roaches under bales they use both sight and sound, but more hearing than sight. They get very still, then dig frantically - give it a quick eyeball and then listen again if they didn't find what they first heard.
I've also read that they are listeners in some circumstances. I've seen it a lot while filming and editing bale turnover videos. In that mode they're more hearing-oriented than visual by far.
So I'm going best of both worlds, good eyesight and great hearing.
Great video mate!!
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The honeyeaters use my birdbath everyday non stop. They must love to be clean. They visit all day long and have a least one bath a day. Maggie gets a drink but only has a bath every once in a while.
Same thing at my place, honeyeaters LOVE the water. And only the male magpies have had a bath so far, I'm yet to see a female get right in there.
ha ha. The parrot is not in the least intimidated by the crow twice his size.
Our Grey Butcherbirds are so hard to differentiate, Baby is easy but the two adults look too similar. Mum & Dad have a quick bath but it’s not that hot yet here in the subtropics. Baby is shy and won’t get too close to the humans but the adults are more than happy to take a bug out of your hand. Baby sits out on the window sill at times to see what we’re doing. Baby has also learned to chortle beautifully and today I recorded 35 seconds of Baby not singing but just having a quiet “chat” to itself. Lots of little trills and buzzes. I wonder if it was mimicking the Little Friar birds in the Grevillea robusta.
We rarely get Butcherbirds here. Sometimes the odd one passes through but I think the maggies move them on pretty quickly. They're such good singers!
I'm pretty sure the odd ones I've seen here were Pied butcherbirds.
Two of the juvenile maggies were shy and retiring. One was brash and rough and tumble so I figure there were two girls and a boy ("Junior"). They're impossible to sex visually but I have a theory you can sex them by personality.
Butcherbirds have an impressive vocal range. The young seem to experiment with it.
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Amazing lorikeet bossing an adult magpie, I'm in Boronia Melbourne' east and my megpies display a much tougher behavior against bigger birds such as cockatoo and raven, at one stage a cockatoo was near a magpie the magpie suddenly purched itself on top of the cokatoo and peck it on the back of the head resulting the cokatoo to let out a loud squawk before flying away...
That sounds hilarious. Junior - the young male - worked out how to attack lorikeets a couple of weeks later. There should be a link to that video appearing at the end of the original video.
I've been looking into it lately and Black-backed magpies seem to have a different personality to White-backed. They don't play or goof around - maybe save in the birdbath. Maybe their attitude is different in other areas.
I've been bitten by Junior. I didn't care (didn't hurt and he had to be rescued). I don't want to be bitten by a Rainbow because I think that would HURT!
And when something charges at you, I'd probably get out of the way. Well, I was attacked while swimming in a dam by a pair of angry ducks and I couldn't stop laughing, but assume it's not an angry duck 😀
I bought a children's plastic clamshell to set up as a birdbath, with rocks in it & logs around it, but now I'm not so sure. I have a standard terracotta birdbath with a solar fountain and it has to be emptied, scrubbed clean & refilled every day because the crows keep fouling up the water with food scraps. I'm worried i wouldn't be able to keep a bigger pool clean.
The clam shell would be a sod to empty out every day. And at least with terracotta you don't have to add silicone to give the birds something they can grip with their claws. Have a good one.
I didnt no the Mag pies would be scared of by the parrots. interesting.
I'd much rather be bitten by a magpie (again) than a Lorikeet! I think farmers used to call cockatoos "flying can openers" because of their beak strength. Parrots can be mean...
Most magpies can push most birds around - but NOT Rainbow lorikeets - they bite HARD! Hahahaha.
I've been bitten by a magpie - barely felt it. I never want to get bitten by a lorikeet...
They’re both bullies but the most bully bird I’ve seen was a butcher bird that had finished its bath but hopped back in when a noisy miner arrived and even spread its wings to make sure it took up the entire bath.
Thanks for that - I like a chuckle in the mornings 😁👍
I was surprised that lorikeets muscled iver maggies. I always have seen maggies as tough giys. What do i know? Im pleased though, to learn more. Nice to find you- don’t know why youtube threw this video at ne but i like your channel. Nice to come across Aussies. Im in Melbourne three floors up in a flat. Moving to my first ever house. And my first ever back yard of my own in the Wimmera. Hopefully i will meet some creatures on my journey. Ive stayed overnight at my new home already, and - listened to the birds go nuts every sundown at the creek nearby, and - found froggies on the back veranda, - AND - been attacked by a wild cat that lunged at thigh- height out of a bush in my own back bloody yard. (Idiot bloke down the street made a pet out if a feral). Adventure! At least its adventures . Cheers mate
Rule 1 Have a drink, Rule 2 check the chicks are ok, rule 3 WATERBOMB!!!
Rule 4 - "No, I didn't see the NO BOMB DIVES sign! Really. I left my glasses in the nest!"
This earned like nr: 600 from me :)
Regarding experiences with Maggies apart from feeding my Mother maggie friend down at Goolwa South I've noticed in some other videos Magpies will look into a camera lens and see their image and maybe they understand what it is?
And there's a video of a female maggie who comes into a lady's living room, hops up on the table and pushes the keys on her laptop and looks at the screen to see what she's typed.
They are extremely resourceful and can adapt and learn moreso than most other bird species.
I absolutely agree they're smarter than most birds. I discussed appearing on film with Pauly and he seemed in favour of it if it meant more roaches (which it did). He was smart though - he didn't sign anything. Kept his options open.
Australian magpies are some of our brightest birds. I think all of our smartest are probably in the Corvid family - I'm not going to insult crows, ravens etc - they're all very smart. Currawongs too. I'm doubtful on Choughs though.
@@mybackyard36 ..Yes.............and by the way.......Maggies love Crickets too............🤫
@@jacintaedwards1123 My magpies get roaches under bales of hay that I turn over for them - which is why I said roaches. There are almost no crickets under the bales. They are very keen on grasshoppers and lizards but equally they are not found under bales.
For example:
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It's mainly roaches with the odd Five-clawed worm skink or Whiptail snake. Pauly and I had an understanding. He is sorely missed.
@@mybackyard36 What do you mean sorely missed? What happened?
@@jacintaedwards1123 Ah. Well. Pauly has been the dominant male magpie here for years. He was a good friend of mine. He had a new lady - Mrs Magpie - who arrived in about...August of last year.
They built a nest and had a chick and then, well, she just disappeared. And a new female appeared - the current lady magpie on the place.
And the chick didn't make it and I buried it.
And a few weeks later - two days after Pauly had survived a vicious attack by a large hawk - he was gone and there was a new male with the new female.
The last half of last year was like a soap opera around here. Pauly and Mrs M are gone, I presume dead. I miss then greatly. I'm getting to know the new pair but, you know, the last pair are still in my thoughts.
Pauly was great. Mrs M was so trusting especially given we'd only known each other for 6 months. Presumably Pauly had told her I could be trusted...
Sad but that's mother nature. No need to go through the videos, I think I've caught you up to date. But I think I posted it pretty completely, I get that you must have found the channel recently - no harm, no foul.
Losing two adult magpies and their offspring in a few weeks or a month or so - 2023 was a rough year.
I think you need two bird baths!
Hey - they fitted! 😁😁😁
Brilliant mate I sponsor a group of magpies here in Spencer Gulf
I just had a vision of a bunch of magpies in footy shirts 😁
@@mybackyard36 lol they're a rag tag bunch , half beaked , club footed , noisy , peck at my windows if I'm not quick Enuff to get up to their demands it's a calcium defeincy when their beaks start dropping off and legs buckle isn't it , poor bastards
Who knew a tyrant could be so pretty!
Or were so vulnerable to attack from below! (You might want to start about half way through, the first half is a recap of the bath day):
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I thought this was hilarious, especially when Junior comes running back so eagerly for seconds.
You may need to explain the term "ratbag" for our international friends! :)
Rainbow Lorikeets are bullies. I have a feeder & bath arrangement & it doesn't matter the size of the bird, if they want in everyone else is out. I've seen them get rid of Cockatoos, Corellas, King Parrots, you name it! However, like everything beautiful in this world, much is forgiven them 😁
I agree, but I'm glad they sleep a long way from here. The big gum trees they roost in in town - it's LOUD there from late afternoon until they leave the next morning!
Lori: You pies got the water all dirty ... UGH
Mag: RACIST!
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Screw those lorikeets. The magpies should have smashed me. :D
Junior gets his revenge in a later video...smart little guy, I miss him.
Towards the end of the video, the last juvenile in the water seemed to stay a bit too long and it's feathers got too wet; and it sounded as though it had a bit of trouble taking off. What do you think?
This often happens. I've seen Pauly leaving the birdbath struggling to gain height. He'll usually preen, sometimes in the Mountain soursop tree nearby, until he's a bit drier but sometimes he leaves from the birdbath and struggles.
So I agree with you entirely 👍 Have a good one.
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I'm Curious how often do they bath like this? Great footage.
Eeew - this drink tastes like magpie!
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As babies, magpies can be distinguished by sex because the females are lighter and the males darker, even before they have adult plumage.
That's good to know, thanks. I'll keep an eye out for that when fledglings start coming around this season. What with the largest and...most robust/outgoing one hanging out with his dad and two smaller shy ones hanging out with mum last season, the gender divide was pretty pronounced. I never looked at colouration.
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