Just witnessed amurder outside my door!

No, it was definitely a magpie

bake it in a pie

Great effort percy..

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If it is indeed murder, there will have been crows involved....

The Rooks will have to legislate against this!

let's hope it was swift

no a black one

Destructive to all our rarer song/garden birds and on a huge population increase in the Uk ,can remember when seeing a magpie was rare but can count them in the dozens now .Crows hate them with a vengence and will kill them ,often get a build up of crow magpie tensions,a few ambush killings followed by  later in the year the crows taking action and driving them out the neighbourhood .
The magpies take the young chicks of other birds as soon as they discover them ,will also take the eggs where the crow likes to view from a vantage point  noting nests and waiting to take them just as they are preparing to leave the nest .Watched last year as a single magpie entered a big conifer in the early hours and took a roosting starling ,it killed it by repeated pecks to the back of the head,the starlings actually put up a bit of a defence and tried to defend their mate .Once it had killed the starling the magpie  mimicked the crows deep "craw craw craw " (very well)and low and behold down came a crow within 30 sec and proceeded to dismember and eat the starling ,some sort of bribe or peace offering maybe .The corvids are a very smart bunch ,reckon due to the Crows nesting so early (so they have a clutch hatching just as others start nesting ) they got hammered by last years late winter and are thinner on the ground this year .The magpies are nearly as bad as cats and should be given no mercy when the opportunity knocks.