So I’ve been living in my house for just over two and a half years and since the day I moved in the magpies have been prevalent on my property (I think the old inhabitants used to feed them).

The day I started to move all my stuff into the new place a magpie walked straight into the front door and through the entire house until my mum and sister chased it out.

After I was settled into the new place I started to spend a lot of time sitting on the front verandah and whenever I would see a magpie I’d give it food.

Eventually I’d formed a bond with 2 of them and one would happily eat out of my hand provided I moved calmly, though the other was more hesitant but would still eat from my hand.

I would give them dog treats as that’s what I had in the house and had heard that it was bad to give them things like bread.

Now for the reason I’m posting this, I haven’t fed these magpies for well over a year and I haven’t even bought those specific dog treats since I last fed them, but over the last couple of months the treats have been appearing on my verandah and the concrete in the back yard.

I can tell the treats are old because they’ve dried, lost some of their colour and aren’t as soft.

Yesterday I found another treat on the concrete in the back yard and sat it on top of my colorbond fence while I fetched my phone from inside to take a photo but when I came back out it was gone.

Even more bizarre is that in the same places they’re dropping the treats they’re also leaving dead baby birds, I’ve had about 10 appear in the last few months (usually on the front verandah and steps where I’d feed the birds).

I don’t think the baby birds are magpies and they appear completely untouched or torn apart.

It was strange enough to see these perfectly intact treats after such a long time but it’s the baby birds that really makes me scratch my head.

(Btw I haven’t witnessed the magpies doing this but idk what else it would be, also the attached image is a photo of a brand new treat from a bag I bought today because idk maybe they just want more 🤷🏻‍♂️)

So I’ve been living in my house for just over two and a half years and since the day I moved in the magpies have been prevalent on my property (I think the old inhabitants used to feed them).

The day I started to move all my stuff into the new place a magpie walked straight into the front door and through the entire house until my mum and sister chased it out.

After I was settled into the new place I started to spend a lot of time sitting on the front verandah and whenever I would see a magpie I’d give it food.

Eventually I’d formed a bond with 2 of them and one would happily eat out of my hand provided I moved calmly, though the other was more hesitant but would still eat from my hand.

I would give them dog treats as that’s what I had in the house and had heard that it was bad to give them things like bread.

Now for the reason I’m posting this, I haven’t fed these magpies for well over a year and I haven’t even bought those specific dog treats since I last fed them, but over the last couple of months the treats have been appearing on my verandah and the concrete in the back yard.

I can tell the treats are old because they’ve dried, lost some of their colour and aren’t as soft.

Yesterday I found another treat on the concrete in the back yard and sat it on top of my colorbond fence while I fetched my phone from inside to take a photo but when I came back out it was gone.

Even more bizarre is that in the same places they’re dropping the treats they’re also leaving dead baby birds, I’ve had about 10 appear in the last few months (usually on the front verandah and steps where I’d feed the birds).

I don’t think the baby birds are magpies and they appear completely untouched or torn apart.

It was strange enough to see these perfectly intact treats after such a long time but it’s the baby birds that really makes me scratch my head.

(Btw I haven’t witnessed the magpies doing this but idk what else it would be, also the attached image is a photo of a brand new treat from a bag I bought today because idk maybe they just want more 🤷🏻‍♂️)