This guy lives in my local park, previously he was walking under a sprinkler.
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Nice way to keep cool - good shot.
Is that an unusual race of magpie to see where you live?
Im in sydney i think i have only seen the ones with the back of the neck white here.
This is the most common type of magpie found here. The black-backed is rarer.
I'm curious to know where "here" is, Wyverntales. I suspect it's in South Australia because the "white-backed" version of the Australian Magpie is common here.
Could be Vic. too.
Des
I am in Peterborough South Australia, though look what I found just the other day looking for food on a patch of grass... He seems to live near the local railway station which is closed. There are some tall pines nearby.
The picture isn't as clear as I hoped it would be... I attempted to downsize the original photo. Still working out things on my camera. Not sure what settings I should use so that the photos are smaller than 500kb. I have a Fuji Finepix S.
Good to see you tracked down a black backed one too.
Cant help you with that camera, but i doubt it will have a setting to make photos under 500KB.
You should take the photo in the biggest size/best quality on your camera, and then resize it in some photo editing software afterwards to get a copy smaller than 500KB. That way you have the best quality image to start with, and the resizing should not degrade the quality too much for posting here.
Your black-backed photo is a .png file type - generally you will be better off saving them as .jpg files.
Here is a 2nd go at my photo resizing for the black backed magpie.
You've got it now!
Yay! :D
This is very interesting and something I never knew . Living here in Perth West. Australia we get the ''white back'' which I have always known as the male and the molty pattern back ones as females. I am going to be looking at each Magpie now with more detail . Thanks for sharing.
Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.