Getting rid of Magpies

[slowwww]

Groan, thanks for the earworm Shaun

 

[midlife]

Groan, thanks for the earworm Shaun

I'm humming it now

Shaun

 

[Milkfloat]

Cannot resist


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDNoSi1vbE0

EDIT:
Even better two different sets of graphics

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1pV4urK38Y

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Larsen trap

 

[Davos87]

Paint the feed station in Sunderland colours.

 

[Globalti]

Magpies are intelligent, well-organised birds and intensely territorial. If a magpie moves on or dies, territories will be re-jigged and the neighbours will gather round in what's known as a Parliament to watch the dispute because they want to know how the outcome will affect their own territory.

Not sure how you can put this nugget to good use though.....

 

[Over The Hill]

May work to just put the food under a feeder with a roof. It is a matter of getting the food to the birds you want by making the setting the food is in OK for the birds you want and not OK for the others. So the combo of openness, mesh to size filter, covers etc has to be changed.

Our garden is open to countryside and there are lots of rooks, crows, pigeons, kites and hawks around here. We now don't feed the small birds as we either get other birds taking the food or taking the small birds.
We did have lots more crows a few years ago but seem to have less now the Kites are very well established.

 

[SteveF]

What you need is a bicycle helmet....

Otherwise things will get out of hand!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Some folks would be very upset if you got rid of them

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

On the RAF bases the corvids (magpies, crows, jackdaws etc.) get shot twice a year. Apparently it is pretty bad when they get sucked into the engines.

 

[DRM]

On the RAF bases the corvids (magpies, crows, jackdaws etc.) get shot twice a year. Apparently it is pretty bad when they get sucked into the engines.

The RAF ones are either hard as nails, the RAF are bad shots, or they didn't take the hint the first time they were shot.

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

The RAF ones are either hard as nails, the RAF are bad shots, or they didn't take the hint the first time they were shot.

The RAF troops are bad shots with small arms. Thank God the pilots are better with the armaments from the aircraft.

 

[Over The Hill]

On the RAF bases the corvids (magpies, crows, jackdaws etc.) get shot twice a year. Apparently it is pretty bad when they get sucked into the engines.

Wasn't there some story that Rolls Royce test their engines with some sort of gun that fires a chicken into the jet engine. With one time the apprentice being sent off to the supermarket to get the chickens for the days test and to load up the chicken gun. When fired, instead of the engine just mashing up the chicken and it damaging a couple of blades as expected, the whole engine exploded and completely disintegrated. They then realised they had used a frozen chicken.

 

[gbb]

Sit a stuffed cat on the feeding table, that'll scare the magpies off.......oh, hang on.....

 

[Profpointy]

Sit a stuffed cat on the feeding table, that'll scare the magpies off.......oh, hang on.....

or just get a live cat . We had a particularly timid cat who still considered a whole magpie a tasty snack. I think there were a couple of feathers and one foot left