This all started around 6 months or so ago, I was looking out my back window at my garden when I spotted a bird nothing unusual about that I get a lot of birds coming into my garden to feed and water, but this bird was different, no on second thoughts this bird was special I had never seen a bird like it before. I didn't get a great look at it as it was gone before I knew it as it flew up into a nearby tree where last year's baby magpie were hanging out, it looked just like one of them, but it's colouring was all off, this new bird was mainly a grey brown colour where the other magpies were black then it was gone.
I had mentioned it to my sister, and she had found a magpie that looked similar to mines, so I was pretty much sure it was a magpie after all. A few months passed, and I had nor seen that bird again. I have this bowl in my garden that I use to feed the birds things like gravy and sauces, bird do not feed from the bowl naturally when they first notice the bowl with food in it, they are scared of it until they realize it is fine then they have no problem feeding from it. Once day I look out and there is that bird again feeding at the bowl and as it was feeding from the bowl means it had to be used to it so it must come in the garden from time to time, Once again I only got a quick look at it as it flew away as soon as I noticed it, but I did get a slightly better look at it and I noticed some other differences first off it has a Mohican stile colouring o it's head where its head is black with a white streak down the back of it not just that its tail feathers are around twice as long as a normal magpie tail, and it is tipped with white feathers where a normal magpies tail feathers just black. It was gone before I knew it.
I only had to wait a couple of weeks before I got my next encounter with it, this time it flew up onto my fence and hung out there for a minute or so giving me the best view of it so far, and it took my breath away. Not only is it a different colour with a longer white-tipped tail and a white stripe on the back of its head, it also has a red beak, red legs and bright red eyes, where as a normal magpie these are all black. This bird is anything but normal.
Four months have passed, and I had not seen it again I was beginning to think it had been killed, that was until Friday there when I could hear some squawking in the garden like a young magpie make when asking to be fed from their parents, so I went to look as it is still pretty early for young to be about it was a nice sunny day and there in my garden sun bathing was my special bird just hanging out like he belonged there I had a tablet nearby, and I used it to get some photos of it, but they were bad grabbed my camera, but the battery was dead, so I failed in getting the picture I wanted so badly, I charged the camera battery and put it next to the window on the chance it would honour me with its presence again. Today I was washing the dishes I had put out some food for the birds and wouldn't you believe it the bird appeared and this time I managed to get some snaps of it.
To be honest, I don't know if I should post this picture as it is not a normal UK bird I have never seen another bird like it here before and if those crazy bird watchers get a look at it, they will be all over me to find out where I stay so they can come and look at it for themselves, but I'm going to post it anyway just don't tell anyone about it.
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