Nasty Magpies! (Lounged: non ED specific)

[dullwitch]

Does anyone have any ideas of deterring Magpies from the garden.

I found 5 dead baby Robins the other day and I'm convinced it was the Magpies.

It's really upset me.:(

[dullwitch]

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[SteveT]

They are a very wary bird and troublesome killers to small birds too.

There is a double cage trap that is available but it is not cheap and I am afraid I have no details of the manufacturer I am sure that a forum computer wizz will find it on the net within minutes of posting this.

[Pongo]

maybe you bored them to death?

[Strawbs]

I absolutely despise magpies. When I was a young nipper we lived in a street (in Australia) that had more magpies than you could count and every spring these little feckers went on the offensive. My mother's solution (and every other mother in the street) rather than having to duck for cover herself by getting to the car to drive us to the bus stop made us hats out of empty ice cream containers with a face drawn on the back and gave us all a big stick that we had to wave above our heads as we walked to the bus stop (a fair distance for a 10 year old) and we did this for about 2 years if you can believe it.. We still sometimes got pecked.. *rolls eyes*

I have such a hatred of them now and I can still hear their devils wings flapping around me ears!!!

Sorry that's not much help so possibly you could use a sling shot?

[Loz]

Me too, Strawbs. September was always dreadful - loads of trees near the local school and I was attacked riding my bike more than once. Crafty little buggers used to fly a big circle 50m away so they could attack the back of your head.

Mind you, I must have learnt something - back in Oz for a holiday a couple of years ago I heard the chilling flap of wings. My girlfriend didn't have a clue what was happening, but I instinctively swung around with a small rucksack, missing the little bugger by a whisker. It was enough to send it packing, but it still followed us from tree to tree for the next 10 mins, waiting for me to take my eyes off it so it could have another go.

Having said that, watching someone else get attacked is rather amusing.

English magpies seem different though - bigger, nastier looking birds, but don't attack humans.

[wee quinnie]

The English (or European, really) magpies ARE different! The Australian magpie is more like the European crow.

Dullwitch - why do you think the dead robins were killed by the magpies?

[dullwitch]

wee quinnie Wrote:

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> The English (or European, really) magpies are

> different! The Australian magpie is more like the

> European crow.

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> Dullwitch - why do you think the dead robins were

> killed by the magpies?

The Magpies have been around the garden so much lately. At first I thought it was the local cat, but, I haven't seen her at all, and I don't think she could have killed so many in such a short time span.

They were all lying around on the decking.

There was one left alive, which I tried to protect, but I think they got that too, in the end.