Charles Morgan
MB Enthusiast
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- Feb 2, 2010
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- Mercedes 250CE W114, Alfa Romeo GT Coupe 3.2 V6
My bird feeder has worked wonders this year in feeding all sorts of birds - the latest being a female Blackcap and a Garden Warbler, and looking out from my bedroom yesterday I saw a pair of Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers do over one of my Lilac trees (the cavity in the base of the tree is now rather worrying, if it falls it will take out the garage).
I live next to a large field which has lots of cover, and I regularly see a splendid dog fox chasing after the ubiquitous rabbits - the more of the latter Charlie catches the merrier. Last week I was looking at it chatting to my brother in law and there was Charlie, but he was being pursued by all the magpies that live around the field, and they were giving him what for. Interesting to watch, but I have become very aware of the sheer number of magpies around - just now I had six (gold on it's way I doubt) on the lawn, a much larger number than last year, and I am worried that the magpies will raid the nests for all the garden birds, as there are just too many of them.
Anybody have non-lethal suggestions for encouraging the Magpies to go elsewhere? I want to displace them and encourage the garden songbirds to prosper (I'm up to 20 species I've seen in the garden or over it - from Wrens at one end to Red Kites at the other).
I live next to a large field which has lots of cover, and I regularly see a splendid dog fox chasing after the ubiquitous rabbits - the more of the latter Charlie catches the merrier. Last week I was looking at it chatting to my brother in law and there was Charlie, but he was being pursued by all the magpies that live around the field, and they were giving him what for. Interesting to watch, but I have become very aware of the sheer number of magpies around - just now I had six (gold on it's way I doubt) on the lawn, a much larger number than last year, and I am worried that the magpies will raid the nests for all the garden birds, as there are just too many of them.
Anybody have non-lethal suggestions for encouraging the Magpies to go elsewhere? I want to displace them and encourage the garden songbirds to prosper (I'm up to 20 species I've seen in the garden or over it - from Wrens at one end to Red Kites at the other).