panoma1 Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 Today at about 3pm, In the ash tree (25/30 ft) at the top of my garden, I counted a congregation of 26 magpies! In my 67 years, I have never seen so many (or anywhere near it!) in one tree at the same time!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 about 5 or so years ago i saw the same....but that number was in a small wood...so it was spread out more...and it was the same time of year...only seen it the once...and the made a lot of noise as well....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 Time to get out that air rifle. Never seen more than 6 in one place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Me matt Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 Time to get out that air rifle. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benthejockey Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 Or a hand grenade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilksy II Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 I think 9 is the most I've seen, but 26!! I'm sure the rhyme doesn't stretch that far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisheruk Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 Need a Larson me thinks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 I shot one Magpie and had s tree full counted more than a dozen all going nuts cawing their heads off, managed to shoot another five before they cottoned on. This year shot one magpie that didn't die straight off and they were coming in from all directions not just magpies but crows and rooks too. Flattened a dozen in ten minutes that day. Never seen as many gather before in my lifetime either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) I have seen a similar thing here in Hull a couple of weeks ago. I counted 22 all in one congregation. Quite a sight but bad news for the local song bird population. Edited January 14, 2017 by aga man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the enigma Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 I've seen similar numbers in one field when spreading slurry from time to time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 Sat on the slurry pit for three hours today and saw one. It dipped into the empty pit where I could not see it and departed without giving my TX200 a chance. Mind I have shot 54 there to date, so they are a bit thin on the ground in that area. Now's the time to hammer them and give all those little song birds a chance of survival come the spring as well as partridge and pheasants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaxiDriver Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 Isn't the collective a 'murder' of magpies ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKPoacher Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 Isn't the collective a 'murder' of magpies ? That's crows. But I think that the collective for magpies is a tiding for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted January 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) That's crows. But I think that the collective for magpies is a tiding for some reason. Gulp, charm, mischief, conventicle, tribe, tittering, flock, tiding, murder and congregation of magpies! Take your choice!......I think you'll find they're all correct? Edited January 14, 2017 by panoma1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted January 14, 2017 Report Share Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) two or three years ago I was going by a small park near to where I live and I had to stop and count the magpies I cannot remember how many there was but it must have been about 25 of them I now a lot of people do not like them but they are very nice looking birds I always think. Edited January 14, 2017 by four-wheel-drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 Isn't the collective a 'murder' of magpies ? That's crows. But I think that the collective for magpies is a tiding for some reason. Tiding, gulp, murder or charm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 (edited) Probably all they are doing is having a bit of a rave to see who gets lucky with who this year? Ravens do it so why not Pies? Charming? Edited January 15, 2017 by old man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKPoacher Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 Gulp, charm, mischief, conventicle, tribe, tittering, flock, tiding, murder and congregation of magpies! Take your choice!......I think you'll find they're all correct? If you get a congregation of a hundred or more magpies I think the correct term is an 'Adge' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted January 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 If you get a congregation of a hundred or more magpies I think the correct term is an 'Adge' I'd have thought "plague" would be more apt Lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yod dropper Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 I saw 30 plus together whilst out running perhaps 5-10 years ago. I love seeing the unusual or unexpected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie&bezza Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 I saw 30 plus together whilst out running perhaps 5-10 years ago. I love seeing the unusual or unexpected. Not an unusual I'd like to see though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynny Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 As a kid me and my mate shot 26 with the air guns in some fir/ pine trees on an old quail farm, all in an hour !!!! They were coming into roost, shot 1 and another landed in the same tree , sometimes on the same branch!!!! We still talk about it today, Happy days with the BSA meteor ( 1988 I was 14 years old) I wish we had mobile phones then to take a pic, I can still see the pile of them know, Flynny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auricula Posted June 3, 2020 Report Share Posted June 3, 2020 On 14/01/2017 at 17:11, panoma1 said: Today at about 3pm, In the ash tree (25/30 ft) at the top of my garden, I counted a congregation of 26 magpies! In my 67 years, I have never seen so many (or anywhere near it!) in one tree at the same time!! On Monday June 1st at 6.45pm I counted 20 magpies sitting on the roof & chimney pot of the house opposite mine in Farnborough . An amazing sight. It was indeed a congregation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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