An Unrepresentative Pocket Swan

Bad back day three and I managed to migrate from taking a shot out of our front window on day one, to a golden gift bag at the end of my bed on day two and now to a shiny swan brooch pinned to a pocket on my sister's denim jacket at the bottom of our stairs.
I seem to be developing a taste for shiny things since I put my back out - yesterday was gold and today is bejewelled and silver. I was going to say that I was almost beginning to feel magpie like (but not swan like - the analogy being that they paddle madly underneath the water whilst appearing graceful and elegant on the surface, neither of which applies to me in my present state of incapacity) so really I have gone for entirely the wrong image but then you don't often see sparkling representations of magpies.
But hey since I've stared down that (flight) path now I might as well continue. Magpies have a terribly bad rap, associated as they are with all sorts of ill luck, superstitions and omens.
One of the pervading myths that surrounds them is that they have penchant for shiny things and will steal your jewellery (possibly including swan shaped brooches), cutlery and even your money. The notion is so engrained that we even describe people who collect and hoard things, particularly objects and trinkets with little value, as magpies.
Despite widespread belief of this behaviour there is little actual empirical evidence to show that magpies are attracted to shiny objects any more than any other birds.
So there you have it - a blip about a completely different bird to that shown in my image with some added myth busting from somebody with far too much time on their hands!