After I hung out a birdseed feeder, I watched two magpies taking turns to eat the seeds and nuts. They ate about a third of the seed ball in less than an hour.
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Snowbird of Paradise 
They must have been quite hungry
Yes, they haven’t been here so often today but they have come back a few times.
[…] I hung a bird feeder in the tree outside my window, I expected to see magpies because they are the neighbourhood bully-birds, and they did not let me down. After that first day, […]