Naomi Watts reveals the horrifying moment her magpie co-star pooped in her MOUTH on the very first day of filming on new movie Penguin Bloom By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 14:29 GMT, 16 January 2021 | Updated: 14:29 GMT, 16 January 2021 Naomi Watts has revealed an amusing mishap she suffered on … Read more
My father used to ‘play the stock market’. He folded the profits from his small business in the 1970s into company shares, some of which came as recommendations from his stockbroker, over the bakelite telephone with a twisted brown cord. He added to this substantially with the big privatisations of the 1980s, and left a … Read more
Incredible moment friendly MAGPIE visits man fixing neighbours fence and stays perched on his shoulder for the next three hours Riordan Hanan was fixing his neighbour’s fence when a magpie approached him Magpie had been nursed back to health after breaking its wing as a fledgling It spent three hours with Mr Hanan as he … Read more
This year has been a strange one for the world of books. Covid meant that bookshops were closed for much of the time, which meant that readers were denied the joy of browsing, and the affiliated pleasure of judging books by their covers. In turn, we authors were denied most of the usual ego-boosts normally … Read more
The wrong kind of birdie! Cheeky magpie keeps knocking golfer’s ball off the tee as he tries to take his shot Charlie Smith, 30, is trying to line up his drive at Bromley Golf Centre in Kent The mischievous bird defiantly pecks at the ball and continually knocks it over Video has went viral on social … Read more
Get off my land! Plucky magpie tries to chase away bearded vulture but the massive bird just ignores it The bizarre encounter was recorded by an onlooker in Thorney, Cambridgeshire The two-year-old female vulture, called Vigo, was spotted feasting on a rabbit It was unfazed by the continued nuisance caused by its smaller feathered foe … Read more
Terrified boy screams in panic as a VERY aggressive magpie repeatedly swoops at him while he rides a scooter on a footpath – leaving his dad in stitches Young boy has been filmed screaming in terror as he gets swooped by a magpie The boy was riding a scooter in Wollongong, south of Sydney, with … Read more
Featherhood Charlie Gilmour W&N £16.99 Rating: Like many children, Charlie Gilmour never had much success with goldfish and hamsters and mice. ‘No matter what you do, it seems like they always end up in the same place: a shoebox at the bottom of a shallow grave.’ Charlie with his pet magpie, Benzene. Benzene’s bad habits were … Read more
A bird-loving woman has struck up a remarkable friendship with dozens of magpies, including one who sits on her shoulder waiting for a kiss. Danielle, 39, greets the birds as they arrive in her Geelong garden each morning and says they all have their own personalities. The wildlife carer has created a social media community … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK Fatherhood by Charlie Gilmour (Weidenfeld £15.99, 288 pp) Featherhood, it would be tempting to say, is where Helen Macdonald’s H Is For Hawk meets Gerald Durrell’s My Family And Other Animals. But Charlie Gilmour’s memoir is so original and ingeniously wrought, it stands on its own as a book to which … Read more