For years I’ve tried to get a good magpie photo, but those magpies are smart and can spot a camera from 300 metres. But I met a kind magpie on Saturday. Here […]
Thank You, Magpie!
A Lesson in Humility from Magpie
One of the greatest things about the world is that when you watch it … …it watches back. You really have to love that in a planet.
The Spirit of Birds and Trees
Watching the magpies watch me today, in their way of leapfrogging from tree to tree to fencepost to shrub to shrub to post up the slope, always 70 metres apart, always keeping […]
Magpie’s Amazing Disappearing Trick
We all know when we’re being watched. We look up and catch the gaze of the watcher. Magpies like to control that kind of thing. Here’s a magpie being visible. And here […]
I Am Never Alone
The ravens make a point of flying overhead and saying “Kalook!”, the flickers make a point of keeping me in sight, as they flit from tree to tree up the slope and […]
Taking Back the Earth
The air is colder than the earth. The sun burns right through it, yet does not touch its cold. But that sun is caught by the earth, and all my beautiful […]
Speaking the Language of the Birds
Raven and the moon … An Old Story The reason that people could once read the language of the birds to tell the future is that if you are a place you […]
Who’s the Best Mouser of Them All (in the fog)?
Is it the coyote? Or is it the magpies? You gotta admit. They have a lot of eyes and beaks to devote to the task. But maybe it’s the great […]
Seeing in the Dark with Magpies
Sacred trees are everywhere at this time of year! Here’s another one: Magpie Nest in a Choke Cherry Tree This one you can get inside for a view up into the sky […]
Magpie, My Brother!
Dogs are man’s best friend. So it is said. It’s true, too. Humans and dogs evolved together. You could say, people became human by interacting with dogs, and dogs became dogs by […]
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