Magpies and Traps

[CUBE 0]

Help…I have been trying to rid my mother’s garden of magpies as they have managed to decimate the entire small bird / songbird population.

 

I have tried various traps (top opening, side opening, top & side) together with a variety of baits (dogfood, catfood, eggs, offal, golf balls, shiny shit etc) as well as a number of call birds….but all the fuckers do is dance around the trap and on top of the trap but NEVER into the trap….that’s a lie, we had one crow in the trap but my old man let it go cause he thought we were just after the magpies – DON’T ASK!!!!

 

Any further tips please???

 

:realmad:

[stubby 175]

whats the area like?, built up housing estate, or house middle of nowhere

tried shooting within your boundaries, although dont think you can use the excuse of them knocking off the small bird population as a reason for culling, it needs to be more public health or livestock being attacked/

[john b 38]

dont think you can use the excuse of them knocking off the small bird population as a reason for culling

 

Oh yes you can

 

Licence to kill or take certain birds to conserve wild birds WML GEN-L08

 

http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/WM...8_tcm6-7672.pdf

[stubby 175]

Oh yes you can

 

Licence to kill or take certain birds to conserve wild birds WML GEN-L08

 

http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/WM...8_tcm6-7672.pdf

 

well john, I stand corrected just re read it, and can see where I had mis-read it

[410phil 4]

try making sure one side of the cage is pushed up against something like a wall or a shed that shoud stop em dancing around it and concentrate more on going in it.

ALL THE BEST Phil

[josh-waddingham 13]

me and my mate made a larson top entry trap last week, put two bantam eggs in, didnt get any reaction for four days i went to check the trap on the thursday and the trap had gone off and one egg gone with a path way to teh incline were a fox has gone into the trap picked an egg up set the trap off teh trap has shut on the fox and the fox has backed out with it being too big , you can see were the fox has made a run for it and flattened all the farmers barely

[JohnGalway 1,043]

Maybe if the trap was raised up a bit and some bait, say catfood, put into the catch compartments it might help. It'd stop them dancing around it anyway but not on top of it.