My Larsen Season Started Today

[gnipper 6,531]

Why on earth did ye spare a Jay, Gnips??? Those b*stards are every bit as bad as maggie's, just less conspicuous about it!

 

Not sure mate just did, theres not as many of them anyway so there easy to control with the gun, just squeak them in and pop.

[Major Badger 2]

i wish it was as easy as that i can shoot from the back bedroom window thats where the pic was taken from but they are very clever even if the windows open and i am not there they know somethings up,lately i was watched them hopping all round the larsen tarp even walking up to it and them thinking that they look nice eggs in trap but hey we wont bother with that, thats a trap

 

 

 

I had success with trap-shy magpies by turning the trap on it's side, so they walk in a bit like a "crow" trap. They'll still jump on the perch, as long as it's not too high.

[Guest little_lloyd]

Well its been about two fecking weeks since my larsons has been out and all i have had it a few blackbird ( safely released, with no harm done) Mind you i have not yet seen a magpie by the cage,, but ive had more sucsess placing my traps where ive seen maggys on and evening and normally have them in the moring,, But im going to move the trap tommorow to a fresh site where i seen a pair on magpies sitting in a tree,, Took me a fecking night to catch my first bird this time last year,, fecking things

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

I think the early experience of that early catch has skewed ye vision, Lloyd. I've put traps out for maggie's and even the crafty crow and had the b*stards within hours. Almost as I turned my back. But it's all down to a multitude of variables which would probably take a lifetime of study and record keeping to sort out. Time of year, right down to time of day. Where the birds were when ye set. What they'd been doing, where ye set, before ye set.

 

To put all that another way: Sometimes we just steam on in and get lucky! You got lucky last time.

 

Now, I'm quite sure that, if ye look up my own Thread about all this, from last year, it'll show that I waited a month or more to get my first bird? Then, as I recall, I did something like catch another single and a double and that was that. Simply no more maggie's in this particular area. I'd wiped out 'my' local family.

 

Sadly, my Call Bird fell off his perch before I ever got round to taking him up to Noels place. Pat had a resident pair too. I shot one of those the other day and I too might have got lucky by splitting a bonded pair for this season there? B*stard is, I now have this bonded pair on my own ground! They're the ones I'm after now.

 

But here's how I see it; I'm always happy, this early in the year, to let the corvids pair up and get down to business. Two adults will eat no more now than last month. But, take those two out next month? Well, by then ye've destroyed all that hard work and, with any luck, a freshly laid clutch of eggs! Plus the others in the vicinity will have settled too. That lessens the chance of more moving into the space ye made.

 

See? So just let nature take its course. Presently ye stand to wipe out seven of the things with just two catches

 

I have the corvids counted across my ground now. I'm all but giving them individual names! And I know just where most of them live too. Not bad, as I only turned my attention to them last year. And, quite frankly; I Hate the b*astards! All of them

[Guest little_lloyd]

Ditch,,

 

Last summer,, My mate had asked me to put the larson in his garden to pick up problem magpies,, I set the cage, he took me home and i got home about to go back out,, And he rang me up saying he was at home now and theres two magpies in the cage!!! Took eight of the buggers in two days These where Urban magpies tho. Infact as i sit here now theres two magpies sitting in the ash tree top of the garden and there always seems to be a fair few in my garden,, If my larson was at home im sure i could produce a call bird for my larson pretty damm soon Might have to se if i can tempt one into a cage,, Batied the way we would a larson

 

Aslo i remember the first things i caught in my larson trap in my garden,, The Jay was a first customer,, followed by a horrible carrion crow,, Bloody thing gave me a nasty old peck when i put me hands in to grab the b***%*d Took the Jay the morning after i set the trap and the crow was in the afternoon of that day.

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

Sounds like a plan!! Hope you get the buggers!

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

A mate caught me a caling bird ,so I had a few calls to do thought I would pick him up at the end of the day,drove up to his place at the end of a b*****d of a day ,and the f::::ing bird was laying in the bottom of the cage with his throat ripped out ,what do you think could have got through wire that thin

Ive had my call birds killed by a stoat before. It killed 3 before I actually caught the bugger! That was in a large crow trap(ladder type), with rabbit mesh. A coupple of years later in one of my larsens I had a magpie killed by a weasel during the night, a mark 4 fenn trap in a tunnell (with restricted entry, to avoid cats or dogs etc getting in) set by or in the larsen using the killed call bird (or part of it) as bait should get it sorted. Otherwise move the trap somewhere else. Hope this helps

[20bennett07 0]

You all should try putting a full magpie decoy in it to start with when you are trying for a call bird,ive even done it with bread works great magpies are easy to get BUT the F*CKERS bite from experience,UNTIL a ball pein hammer has a go on it

[Guest little_lloyd]

You all should try putting a full magpie decoy in it to start with when you are trying for a call bird,ive even done it with bread works great magpies are easy to get BUT the F*CKERS bite from experience,UNTIL a ball pein hammer has a go on it

 

 

They wont peck if you deal with them correctly No need for a hammer either lol

[20bennett07 0]

i like my hammer ha its great for dealing with all trapped and snared pests plus the maggie only got me when (due to my trap being too big) i couldnt get a hold of it

[Guest little_lloyd]

i like my hammer ha its great for dealing with all trapped and snared pests plus the maggie only got me when (due to my trap being too big) i couldnt get a hold of it

 

 

I use a thumb stick,, Put the stick through the mesh ( provding its the narrow wire stuff) and use the U to hold your bird,, open the spring doors grab your bird,, and wring its neck,, Or with my chicken mesh larsons i have to use my hands,, just grab him when he;s fluttering about in the corner and so forth. No hammer or any thing silly.

 

But Crows just get me all the time lol