Magpies

[macconraoi 0]

I tried your link but can't seem to find anything.

 

You give up tooo easy Here it is

 

http

://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$departme.../all/agdex3496

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Well Done

[Knifebar 0]

 

I have shot a number of Magpies this past few days and despite this there seems to be more and more of

them. There used to be only around 3 or 4 birds but now its like a Hitchcock film. Yesterday I counted in

excess of 15 birds in the tree beside home.

 

Does anyone know why this is happening, I would have thought they would avoid this area once some were

shot.

 

Hopefully someone in the forum will have a answer to this.

 

 

Knifebar

[Tis TM 8]

Hiya - I Had big problems with magpies and carion crow stealing my hens eggs. They actually flew right into the hen house, and were taking them from the nest boxes, to the tune of a dozen a day!!

 

I borrowed a very old larsen, but didn't have a call bird. I moved my hens, and shut up the door to the hen house, so stopping thier free feast. I put the larsen outside the hen house a couple of days later, with a lovely looking nest of egg's in the call bird side..... Result??? .....Two carrion crow the same day!!, One stayed for the call bird and the other that had scraped itself up a bit got dispatched. Over the next month I caught numerous other crow and Magpies. Even had a badger trying to get in the bloomin trap! Glad I didn't have to release one of those snakey critters!!

Ive just bought some magpie decoys off ebay to give them a go.... I'll let you know if they work!

[Tis TM 8]

 

I have shot a number of Magpies this past few days and despite this there seems to be more and more of

them. There used to be only around 3 or 4 birds but now its like a Hitchcock film. Yesterday I counted in

excess of 15 birds in the tree beside home.

 

Does anyone know why this is happening, I would have thought they would avoid this area once some were

shot.

 

Hopefully someone in the forum will have a answer to this.

 

 

Knifebar

 

Magpies are always on the look out for new territory, so when you shoot one couple, another set will move in. Just keep up the trapping and shooting.

[Knifebar 0]

Thanks Tis TM,

 

I am currently making a trap that Big Fish posted here but its going to take a bit of time as its my first attempt, although it's going good so far. These damed birds needs to be dealt with cause the small song birds I have noticed are on the move for breading season. I also watched a magpie hunt a Wag Tail in the hedge this morning but I cound'nt shoot dam bird, it was to close to neighbours house.

 

I am sitting looking out at the field with cattle and there is 5 in it at the moment but I can't shoot them, brother would'nt like it if I shot a cow. LOL.

 

Knifebar

[outshooting 0]

Magpies i feckin hate them & there mate the squirrel, but i am sorry to say that they will just keep coming.

 

Only way is to do what you are doing & good luck

[Knifebar 0]

Thank Outhunting,

 

I am going to keep the campaign going as our other birds need to be nurtured. They are a scurge wrecking other wildlife.

Although their mate THE SQUIRREL (grey) are not not seen much around here, the odd one but dispatched when opportunity arises. I only know one man are here who has got one, sort of privileged he is.

 

Knifebar

[john b 38]

How is you larsen coming on Kb ?

[Knifebar 0]

I have been held up as local building supplies did'nt deliver the timber I needed. I had some old pressure treated laths left over from a job I had done. So I made the frame no problem, I used high adhesive glue and 3" screws to put it together. But I am waiting on 1/4" exterior ply and chicken wire 1" in order to progress. I am ordering the trap springs on e-bay today so they should arrive this week sometime.

 

I have on slight problem, I don't know how to catch a call bird. I am thinking if the weather gets frosty a piece of bait or something when the are hungery and try to get one that way. Any suggestions?

 

 

Knifebar

[john b 38]

I have on slight problem, I don't know how to catch a call bird. I am thinking if the weather gets frosty a piece of bait or something when the are hungery and try to get one that way. Any suggestions?

 

 

Knifebar

 

 

Now funny you should ask that .....

 

http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/index...showtopic=37477

[Knifebar 0]

Thanks John B,

 

I will certainly try this as it seems Magpies have a particular taste for eggs it seems. Although before I trap I will have to lay off the shotgun as I have the living hell scared out of them. Funny thing, I shot a Grey Back Crow and this on its own seems to have scared the Magpies more than anything.

 

Sheep farmer close is very happy as he has lost lambs due to grey backs taking the eyes out of new born's.

 

 

Knifebar

[Lost Generation 93]

Dear Forum,

 

Last year I watched magpies hunt song birds close to my house(rural). I watched them hunt them in packs of

between 4 and 14. Last season lots of evidence of small birds feathers, eggs and the remains of their nests I have found in the fields and close my hose as result of these birds. (Remember I watched Magpies do this).

 

I have started dispatching these birds in order to curb their antics but since I have dispatched two Magpies they have multiplied and they are numerous (excess of 13) around my house. They have become difficult to get near and even have spotted me hiding in undergrowth.

 

Does anyone have any ideas on how to cull these birds in numbers as they are decimating the song bird population around my home and surrounding countryside?

 

Help

 

 

knifebar

 

 

It is now illegal to use alphachloralose on meat to poison magpies and hoodies in the Republic of Ireland. Edited by JohnGalway.

[Knifebar 0]

Dear Forum,

 

Last year I watched magpies hunt song birds close to my house(rural). I watched them hunt them in packs of

between 4 and 14. Last season lots of evidence of small birds feathers, eggs and the remains of their nests I have found in the fields and close my hose as result of these birds. (Remember I watched Magpies do this).

 

I have started dispatching these birds in order to curb their antics but since I have dispatched two Magpies they have multiplied and they are numerous (excess of 13) around my house. They have become difficult to get near and even have spotted me hiding in undergrowth.

 

Does anyone have any ideas on how to cull these birds in numbers as they are decimating the song bird population around my home and surrounding countryside?

 

Help

 

 

knifebar

 

 

It is now illegal to use alphachloralose on meat to poison magpies and hoodies in the Republic of Ireland. Edited by JohnGalway.

 

I know what you mean with alpha but the problem is making sure other birds don't get it. The odd crow would'nt matter but I'ed be afraid of knocking of some other species. Although I will keep this as a last resort, failing the larsen dosent work.

 

Thank you Lost Gneration

 

 

 

 

Knifebar

[Lost Generation 93]

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I know what you mean with alpha but the problem is making sure other birds don't get it. The odd crow wouldn't matter but I'd be afraid of knocking off some other species. Although I will keep this as a last resort, failing the Larsen doesn't work.

 

Thank you Lost Generation

 

 

 

 

Knifebar

 

I understand the problem. The difficulty using poison has always been that it's not very discriminate - those eggs will attract corvids but amight also attract buzzards and you would have to make sure that cats and dogs etc can't get get at them as well, although, with that said, it would take a lot of alpha to do much harm to a dog of any size. Eggs are a more discriminating bait than bread or corn or putting it in a carcase.

Edited January 17, 2008 by Lost Generation

[stubby 175]

Dear Forum,

 

Last year I watched magpies hunt song birds close to my house(rural). I watched them hunt them in packs of

between 4 and 14. Last season lots of evidence of small birds feathers, eggs and the remains of their nests I have found in the fields and close my hose as result of these birds. (Remember I watched Magpies do this).

 

I have started dispatching these birds in order to curb their antics but since I have dispatched two Magpies they have multiplied and they are numerous (excess of 13) around my house. They have become difficult to get near and even have spotted me hiding in undergrowth.

 

Does anyone have any ideas on how to cull these birds in numbers as they are decimating the song bird population around my home and surrounding countryside?

 

Help

 

 

knifebar

 

 

If you really are in Eire then you have legal access to a better remedy than shooting, get hold of some 'Sleepy Crow' (alphachloralose) get a couple of hens eggs, pick a hole in the top of each, pour out some of the white, pour in about 1/3rd of a teaspoon of alpha, stir it in with a stick. Put the eggs where the maggies will find them but non-target animals can't get at them and problem solved.

 

again, this would'ent stop non target species, so it would be more of a problem started, than problem solved