Black and White

In keeping with my year of black and white images I snapped this Magpie on my lawn through a pair of binoculars. Although nominally a pied bird when the sun catches the feathers it glows with iridescent colour.
Magpies get a bad press but are just trying to make a living like the rest of us. I do suspect that it has been eating my tadpoles however as there is currently no sign of them and it has spent a suspicious amount of time by pond.