19th November 2025 - Andy M witnessed a somewhat grizzly event in his garden recently. A Great Tit was perched in a clump of ivy, when it was suddenly attacked by one of the Magpie that regularly hang around the garden. Grabbing it by the nape, the Magpie wrestled the Great Tit to the ground, where it proceeded to kill it and start plucking it. Whilst it is well known that corvids take eggs and young birds, Andy had not witnessed a Magpie taking an apparently healthy adult bird before.
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