Now flying

Here's a photo of the baby magpies in their mew. The older bird (long tail) is non-releasable and waiting to go to NC as an educational bird. In the meantime she's being a great role model to show these babies just how to eat all the stuff they'll live on in the wild. Both of the little ones are now flying altho the larger is going farther and higher. They will be released in a couple weeks with the help of Shig Yabu, the gentleman shown in an earlier post who wrote a childrens book about the baby magpie he raised while interred at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during WWII. (See earlier post)