No, your eyes are not deceiving you... this really is a picture of a bird with a cigarette in its beak.

But is this cheeky chappy really a Mancunian magpie?

Twitter user ‘Will McStardust’ posted the hilarious picture on the social media site on Wednesday morning, claiming the bird was from Manchester.

More than 2,000 people have retweeted and ‘favourited’ the image, captioned ‘Meanwhile in Manchester’.

User @jaay89 simply posted: “The Internet is a wonderful place.”

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‘Thony Christie’ said: “The magpies in Manchester are getting soft. In my youth, they smoked roll-ups.”

With a nod to the city’s famous Gallagher brothers, Angus Curran said: “Manchester Mapgpies - Mad for it!”

Others quickly changed that to ‘Mag for it’.

Rich Arrowsmith said: “That magpie looks like it’s about to drop the hottest indie album of 2016.”

Will’s Twitter handle was quickly trending in London and Manchester after his post went viral.

He posted: “1000 retweets for a smoking magpie. Fantastic.”