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Much of the time, there was just one magpie at a time in the pool, as here.
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If I had to spend all my days watching the magpie clan at Big John's Cleaners, I would never get bored. Today, I watched them taking turns bathing. There were 7 birds in the flock, with 1 an apparent sentinel. It stayed high up in a tree off to the east a ways; I conjecture that it was looking for danger--or rival magpie clans. The 6 other birds took turns bathing. See especially the 5 videos, below. Video 1. That was pretty typical. One bird would bathe for ~15 seconds, before either announcing its turn was over or being nudged out by another. Video 2. This magpie completes its turn, hops out of the pool, then seems to say, "Next?" Video 3. A magpie is bathing, then another walks in and the first one moves on. Pretty peaceful, all things considered. (I conjecture that the magpie clans here--there are several--are family groups.) Video 4. Sometimes 2 at a time (but I never saw more than 2) would bathe together. These two are besties, and their names are Snowball and Madonna. Video 5. And then this would happen! Under the shade of Proto's, but just a couple meters away from the pool where they were bathing. Not sure I can interpret this behavior: Is this bird eating snow? Is it snow-bathing? Just goofing around? I'm not sure, but I saw this behavior from all the birds (except for the presumptive sentinel), I believe, at one time or another.
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