1 for sorrow,
2 for joy,
3 for a girl,
and 4 for a boy,
5 for silver,
6 for gold ... (7 for a secret never to be told, Maaaaa-agpie),
I asked Harvs what he thought the correct term might be for a gang of magpies. He suggested crater. When I asked why, he said it just sounded good to him: a crater of magpies.
I wondered about chevron but he thought that was too obvious.
Anyway,today, blog-browsing, I came across this on Tumbled Words blog. It lists birds and the proper names for a group of them.
It's a tidings of magpies. And a siege of bitterns and a kettle of nighthawks. Fascinating. Now before a convocation of eagles arrives and carries me off ...
