One for Sorrow...

In the last few days, I kept seeing a magpie in the neighbour's front lawn. when I first came to England, this is the first bird I noticed, as I had never seen one where I come from. I took a fancy in them, in spite of their bad reputation, they just look so nice and elegant. I tried to take a picture, so far I have not been able to. Anyway, thankfully I'm not superstitious, as my wife taught me yesterday that there is a nursery rhyme about magpies which can be quite ominous: "One for sorrow / two for joy / Three for a girl / Four for a boy", etc. I have seldom seen more than one magpie together and as far as I remember never more than two at the same time.