magpie/jay

[patdahat 41]

i have just seen a jay in a small wooden area near me, just wondering if anyone has managed to catch a jay with a magpie as a call bird in a larson trap???

Edited May 12, 2009 by patdahat

[zipdog 0]

arnt jays protected now

[patdahat 41]

arnt jays protected now

just want to know if a jay will go into a magpie (call bird) in a larson trap so i wont put it in that area

[J Darcy 5,871]

Jays are not protected.

[John Keswick 119]

Jays are piss easy to catch, they wont go into a larsen trap with maggies in though! Why would they? Cmon use your common sense folks...

[patdahat 41]

Jays are piss easy to catch, they wont go into a larsen trap with maggies in though! Why would they? Cmon use your common sense folks...

 

there are very rare in the area im from and never tried to catch them before so john how do you sugest i trap him

[Holdaway 2]

Pat, try some monkey nuts in the larson, I have had a jay before using them as bait.

 

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[stephen58 1]

Hi Patdahat , you say you "that they are a rare bird in your area " so why do you want to trap it for ??? I like the odd Jay or two around , when they start " cackling up " there is some~thing mooching about , you would be surprised how many times I,ve caught a fox out best regards Steve

[aaronpigeonplucker 32]

they are very common in my area an i have trapped them in a very unusual way. i noticed that i was always finding the eggs in my duck house cracked open and sucked dry. after staying out there i found out that a pair of jays where the thieves so i started closing the door on my duck house each morning. but then i found that the ducks where laying outside because they couldent get in there duck house . so i tied some fising line to the door of my duck house. put an egg inside it. and waited. sure enough the jays landed on top of the house and flew down into it as they where feeding on theegg i jerked on the line closing the door to the duckhouse. the jays were trapped. problem solved.

Edited May 13, 2009 by aaronpigeonplucker

[patdahat 41]

humm these jays are in a forestry so the string on a door could be a problem i have set a few larsons with an artifical nest and some free range eggs has anyone caught them like so????

[Tis TM 8]

humm these jays are in a forestry so the string on a door could be a problem i have set a few larsons with an artifical nest and some free range eggs has anyone caught them like so????

 

I had two empty larsens out, with no callbirds, just baited up.... I caught a pair of Jay's in the first day and that was using big lumps of white bread.... I think the bait needed for catching will depend on what area they are in, eg, got a few houses around feeding garden birds, then nuts and bread would be appealing as they are quite likely getting some already..... If its woodland/farmland, then go for something like the mock nest.

[OldTrapCollector 377]

I have caught plenty of jays in maize baited multi-catch cage traps set for squirrels - maybe there is scope for catching them in a basic funnel ground entry cage baited as above?

 

OTC

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Caught them in funnel wire traps made for catching up pheasants for laying .Always let them go though as they make up for the odd egg eaten by the early warning system they provide .Baited purely with corn .

[patdahat 41]

cheers lads for the info . In some of my larsons with a magpie as a call bird i have caught grey(hooded) crows but never the other way around as i can under stand why, will a jay call bird only catch a jay, has anyone caught a jay with a magpie as a call bird? or will they as a ruel not go near a magpie?