Damn Magpies

bobdauilda

Yes its that time of year again where the !!!!in things are nesting in my garden trees again and waking us at 4am with their evil cackling. Can anyone recommend someone with a shotgun or other equally painful way to rid us of these vermin in the Cardiff area? :mad:

Flimber

I'm 150% with you. I absolutely hate the things. I used to sleep within 50yds of a nest and you're right, at around 4am every morning it would sound like people were outside with old-style football rattles. Giant ones. Impossible to sleep through. I still wince when I hear one to this day.

Do a search for "Larsen Traps" online. AFAIK, it's one of the only legal ways of despatching them in your garden. Look up "[size=-1]Lesley Mackiggan" for the other one

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bobdauilda

just found this article that sums it all up too.... http://amischiefofmagpies.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_amischiefofmagpies_archive.html

Red_Elle

I'm amazed at the attitudes of some people. Buy some earplugs !!!!!!. Birds and other wildlife were around before people were. People have built up into the homes of the local wildlife and then they complain about them! :mad:
Don't you think they get p*ssed off with people invading their homes? Have you no respect.

Laughable really :rolleyes:

WelshHybrid

Red_Elle wrote:

I'm amazed at the attitudes of some people. Buy some earplugs !!!!!!. Birds and another wildlife were around before people were. People have built up into the homes of the local wildlife and then they complain about them! :mad:
Don't you think they get p*ssed off with people invading their homes? Have you no respect.

Laughable really :rolleyes:

Totally agree, Elle. We miss hearing birds since we moved from a more rural location to living in a built up area with no trees and no birds - just cats and kids!

mcallister1

WelshHybrid wrote:

Totally agree, Elle. We miss hearing birds since we moved from a more rural location to living in a built up area with no trees and no birds - just cats and kids!

Whilst not wanting to advocate killing magpies, I think the problem with them is that they kill lots of other garden birds and animals. They are a really succesful predator but there isn't anything much preying on them. So many bird lovers make an exception for magpies and hate them too.

jonathonjordan

I have a major problem with pigeons at the moment. i live in an apartment with a very large balcony. All i hear from 6.30am till 4.30am is the male coo-ing to beckon the female. Im sick of trying to get rid of them !!! everyday i am cleaning up to 20 birdpoos off my balcony. Its a nightmare and so unhygenic. ive tried everything from bleach to clean to putting up a net but still they come every day.

bobdauilda

Red_Elle wrote:

I'm amazed at the attitudes of some people. Buy some earplugs !!!!!!. Birds and other wildlife were around before people were. People have built up into the homes of the local wildlife and then they complain about them! :mad:
Don't you think they get p*ssed off with people invading their homes? Have you no respect.

Laughable really :rolleyes:

If you can claim that the magpies cackle is pleasant to listen to then you need to be insitutionalised my friend. The problem is that they destroy all the other birds nests and the songbirds we used to have a few years ago have all !!!!!!ed off. The RSPB claim that this is not so from their farcical research but the anecdotal evidence is still there.
Your talk of building into the homes of local wildlife is laughable, if you go back far enough in time you will find that we have all done that, even London was green fields and meadows once. So should we all just stop living to free the magpies? They are just as much a problem in the city which incidentally is where I live. Where do you draw the line in your argument? Bacteria and viruses were around long before us does that mean we should stop treating infections etc?? :mad:

jancalla

bobdauilda wrote:

Yes its that time of year again where the !!!!in things are nesting in my garden trees again and waking us at 4am with their evil cackling. Can anyone recommend someone with a shotgun or other equally painful way to rid us of these vermin in the Cardiff area? :mad:

I used to live in a mobile home and magpies were the bain of my life because of the noise they'd make on the roof early in the morning.

My neighbour never complained about it and one dy I asked hinm about it and he said that he kept budgies in an avery in his back garden and he thogt that they put the magpier off!!!!

Red_Elle

bobdauilda wrote:

If you can claim that the magpies cackle is pleasant to listen to then you need to be insitutionalised my friend. The problem is that they destroy all the other birds nests and the songbirds we used to have a few years ago have all !!!!!!ed off. The RSPB claim that this is not so from their farcical research but the anecdotal evidence is still there.
Your talk of building into the homes of local wildlife is laughable, if you go back far enough in time you will find that we have all done that, even London was green fields and meadows once. So should we all just stop living to free the magpies? They are just as much a problem in the city which incidentally is where I live. Where do you draw the line in your argument? Bacteria and viruses were around long before us does that mean we should stop treating infections etc?? :mad:

You're very funny
I don't object to people finding magpies or pigeons irritating. In fact I can sympathise. It must be annoying to get woken up, hence the earplug suggestion (and I thought I was being helpful :rolleyes: )
What I do obejct to is infantile comments about shotguns and other equally painful methods. They may be irritating, but that doesn't give you the right to kill them. It may be have been tongue in cheek, but I stand by what I said.
Lots of things annoy me sometimes - dog cr*p from irresponsible owners (shall we kills all the dogs?), people that walk slowly in supermarkets and stop in the middle of aisles (shall we stick a shotgun up their backside to chivvy them along a little)
All I'm saying is chill out. It's a bird !!!!!! - it's not hurting you.
If you're suggesting that having to put up with the noise of magpies is tantatmount to stopping living, you must lead a rather dull life :rotfl:
Infections call kill btw, magpies steal, but AFAIK there hasn't been a recent out break of magpie killers for I don't know how long.

Your friend

elvis_bloggs

bobdauilda wrote:

Can anyone recommend someone with a shotgun or other equally painful way to rid us of these vermin in the Cardiff area? :mad:

Uh oh.!!

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