there's a bird that lives in my garden. it's about the size of a magpie, is brown, but has a small patch of black and white stripes on it. what is it? googling 'that black white and brown bird' hasn't helped.
Is this it?
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that's the one.
next question. outside of my balcony, there are regularly 50-100 bees swarming round what can only be described as 'a large window pot filled with sand/earth'.
why?