macconraoi 0 Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 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 dragged out the magpie trap on tuesday . baited it every morning arrived home this evening to find 4 magpies inside,no call bird needed,cheap and cheerful trap and it works Quote Link to post
Knifebar 0 Posted January 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 What sort of trap have you got? Knifebar Quote Link to post
Knifebar 0 Posted January 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 This is as far as I have got with the Larsen, I need to wire it up and it will be ready. I shall let you know how I get on. Knifebar Quote Link to post
macconraoi 0 Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 What sort of trap have you got? Knifebar the trap i have is the one in the Link on an earlier post.I made a simple frame from 8mm round bar this included the trapping cone area. I just covered the whole lot in chicken wire. It took about an hour to put together and maybe 5 or 6 euro in total Quote Link to post
Knifebar 0 Posted January 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2008 Hello, Just to let you know I have finished my larsen and here it is!! What do yiz think? Knifebar Quote Link to post
trapper25 0 Posted January 19, 2008 Report Share Posted January 19, 2008 good effort knife bar,looks like you put a lot of work into it,good luck Quote Link to post
Guest little_lloyd Posted January 19, 2008 Report Share Posted January 19, 2008 Great work that Knifebar ,, Now bait the fecker up and get those maggies sorted,, youll be flying once you get that call bird Quote Link to post
Knifebar 0 Posted January 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 Well BAD NEWS:- A f$%&**g cat, dirty vicious spitting throg. Ate every thing and got trapped. Some job trying to get the cat out. Well, if that wasn't bad enough something came and wrecked one of the trap compartments, wire all ripped and a big hole in the bottom. Yiz did'nt tell me the Magpie's were that violent. LOL What could it be that done this?? Knifebar Quote Link to post
macconraoi 0 Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 Well BAD NEWS:- A f$%&**g cat, dirty vicious spitting throg. Ate every thing and got trapped. Some job trying to get the cat out. Well, if that wasn't bad enough something came and wrecked one of the trap compartments, wire all ripped and a big hole in the bottom. Yiz did'nt tell me the Magpie's were that violent. LOL What could it be that done this?? Knifebar Mutant Magpies ? what did you bait it with ? Quote Link to post
Lost Generation 93 Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Well BAD NEWS:- A f$%&**g cat, dirty vicious spitting throg. Ate every thing and got trapped. Some job trying to get the cat out. Well, if that wasn't bad enough something came and wrecked one of the trap compartments, wire all ripped and a big hole in the bottom. Yiz did'nt tell me the Magpie's were that violent. LOL What could it be that done this?? Knifebar Probably a badger, though it might have been two-legged vermin putting a trainer through the wire. Still, if it was brock and it had come along when the cat was in the trap it might well have eaten the moggie and saved you a problem. A final tip, dead cats are generally much easier to take out of traps than live ones and there's no worse predator of game and small birds and mammals than Tiddles! Quote Link to post
Knifebar 0 Posted January 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 I had the trap baited with old lamb bones and scatterings of bread. Mutant Magpies. LOL Don't worry the campaign will continue. Knifebar Quote Link to post
macconraoi 0 Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 I had the trap baited with old lamb bones and scatterings of bread. Mutant Magpies. LOL Don't worry the campaign will continue. Knifebar Had the s%&t ripped out of mine when i sited it 2 fields from the house last year.I found the best place just next to where the dogs are fed and i simply scatter a little Lidl Dog Nuts around the trap and into it .(I am not joking).Foxes and badgers are hungry this weather and have all night to do their worst if its sited too far away.Thats my experience for what its worth Quote Link to post
Knifebar 0 Posted January 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 In all fairness the trap is beside some old scrub and trees and it is quite likely there maybe badgers in there, that is most likely the case it was robbed by badgers. I shall have to fix and locate close my dog. (Pedigree Collie, good guard dog). Cheers Knifebar Quote Link to post
smasher 1,055 Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 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 have a ferret or get a loan of one and stake him out with a collar and apeice of string one magpie will spot him and start his call warnimg of a predator any magpies around will join him.There gaurd will be down as they will be 2 busy mobbing the ferret and you can pick them off quite easily.when you shoot ur first one let ferret have it .This will drive them wild bringing magpies from miles around.Just keep popping them off.I have shot hundreds this way Quote Link to post
smasher 1,055 Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 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 have a ferret or get a loan of one and stake him out with a collar and apeice of string one magpie will spot him and start his call warnimg of a predator any magpies around will join him.There gaurd will be down as they will be 2 busy mobbing the ferret and you can pick them off quite easily.when you shoot ur first one let ferret have it .This will drive them wild bringing magpies from miles around.Just keep popping them off.I have shot hundreds this way Quote Link to post
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