This is the Frenchfister Debating Society.

I'm John Batchel with Jeremy Zackison, New South Wales.

An Easter egg hunt.

Dad arranges an Easter egg hunt.

Chocolate is the reward.

However, Dad has more than he thinks to take into account for the Easter egg hunt

because Dallas's Magpie family wants

to join in. What happened, Jeremy? Well, John, I've gone out there and judicely put all the

Easter eggs out ready for my daughter to do an Easter egg hunt this morning. And the interesting thing

is I always have in the back of my mind, I've got to make sure that I keep an eye on Dallas because sure enough, he always follows me and he always picks up

at least two Easter eggs. And he didn't fail this time. I turned around a couple of times,

and he did have the chocolate Easter eggs in his mouth. He doesn't want to eat them. He just wants

to prove his point that he can, you know, find the eggs just as good as a toddler can as well. So, so that was

pretty normal. But what I did notice was that as I went around putting the Easter eggs out,

the magpies, the main magpie family, came around as well, dutifully in the morning. They landed,

expecting their breakfast as they always do. But the teenage magpie in particular was very, very curious. He noticed that

there were all these shiny little things around the backyard that normally aren't there. So sure enough,

before the main Easter egg hunt, the magpies had a hunt of their own. I could see the little

teenage magpie especially, he would walk up to the Easter eggs, who kind of turn his head sideways

and kind of eye them off quite closely, not knowing what to think. Luckily, he didn't pick them up because

I can imagine a chocolate Easter egg is probably not that good for a Magpie, but sure enough, John,

before my daughter got out there to actually have the main Easter egg hump, I can tell you that

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