Magpie stae out - good news, bad news or mumbo jumbo?

[Tigertips_31]

I've been sat at the PC next to the window. To my surprise I heard knocking on the window. At first I ignored it, but then when it continued, I turned round only to be eyeball to eyeball with a lone magpie. Scared the living daylights out of me. Should I be worried/

[jno]

no.

[Drusilla]

If you want to avoid bad luck, you are supposed to salute a magpie. One visits my garden and always wipes and bashes his beak on the fence after he has landed. They are very inquisitive and like ravens are supposed to be quite intelligent.

[Piper-AK]

I hate the things. I'm not particularly superstitious about them, it's just that when I lived in Australia ( I was a kid) we were regularly attacked by hordes of them. They used to lay in wait for us to go out playing, and also ambushed us a few times coming out of our local library. I wonder what your Magpie wanted, cheeky little s*d lol?

[crisgal]

they attack my little rabbit when he's having his constitutional, and killed a baby hedgehog in next door's garden! They go for the eyes apparently

[Cetti]

Nothing dramatic about this Tigertips - all the Magpie was doing was seeing its own reflection in the glass and thinking it was a rival. Only yesterday I watched one across the road pecking around windowsills and gutters to get at the insects. Normal bird behaviour, so no need to worry.