ayjay 476 Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 I've got a new vegetarian neighbour and I don't want dead magpies dropping in to her garden as I try to be a good neighbour. Isn't that tantamount to admitting that killing Magpies is what a "bad" neighbour would do? Link to post Share on other sites
Norm B 128 Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 Isn't that tantamount to admitting that killing Magpies is what a "bad" neighbour would do? What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over. She has no objection to me killing rats in her or my garden but most people see magpies as feathered friends, they don't know they kill other birds and take their eggs and chicks. http://www.seaanglingnews.co.uk Link to post Share on other sites
ayjay 476 Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 I think I'll take dodging the question as being that you didn't want to give the truthful answer. Birds eat other birds, it's a fact of life (and death) in the feathered community. It's a nonsense to just kill any bird that eats other birds. Hawks, Falcons, Harriers, Eagles, Shrikes, Corvids, Gulls, Woodpeckers,(and more) they all do it, and yet their sometimes prey is still here. Reduction in numbers of some of the prey species usually has other reasons than predation by birds. Link to post Share on other sites
Vagabond 1013 Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 What will an English Fox kill and eat that a cat will not? Cats ! RNLI Governor World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 . Certhia's world species - 215 Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501 "Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato ...only things like fresh bait and cold beer... Link to post Share on other sites
Norm B 128 Posted March 16, 2018 Author Share Posted March 16, 2018 I think I'll take dodging the question as being that you didn't want to give the truthful answer. Birds eat other birds, it's a fact of life (and death) in the feathered community. It's a nonsense to just kill any bird that eats other birds. Hawks, Falcons, Harriers, Eagles, Shrikes, Corvids, Gulls, Woodpeckers,(and more) they all do it, and yet their sometimes prey is still here. Reduction in numbers of some of the prey species usually has other reasons than predation by birds. Not dodging anything but as she has bird feeders in her garden I don't want to upset her by dropping magpies in her garden when there are "more discrete" ways of culling them. http://www.seaanglingnews.co.uk Link to post Share on other sites
Norm B 128 Posted March 29, 2018 Author Share Posted March 29, 2018 Not dodging anything but as she has bird feeders in her garden I don't want to upset her by dropping magpies in her garden when there are "more discrete" ways of culling them. Talk about cheeky, a pair of magpies are nest building in a Scottish pine that over hangs my boundary, I've spoken to the tree's owners and they want them gone, so I'll wait until it's built then they're gone as the other magpies will have claimed their territories and will stay clear. http://www.seaanglingnews.co.uk Link to post Share on other sites
ayjay 476 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Talk about cheeky, a pair of magpies are nest building in a Scottish pine You're anthropomorphising, they're not being cheeky, they're just doing what comes naturally, a shame they won't be left to get on with it in the same way that you would expect in similar circumstances. Link to post Share on other sites
chesters1 1549 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 (edited) Everything shot just means an opening for another to take the space ,you will run out of cartridges far quicker than the targets If shooting worked there would be no grey squirrels Edited March 29, 2018 by chesters1 Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle Mathew 4:19 Grangers law : anything i say will turn out the opposite or not happen at all! "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson Link to post Share on other sites
Norm B 128 Posted March 29, 2018 Author Share Posted March 29, 2018 Everything shot just means an opening for another to take the space ,you will run out of cartridges far quicker than the targets If shooting worked there would be no grey squirrels Magpies, like most birds are territorial and once they've claimed "their patch" other magpies keep out and claim their own patch so once they're gone I shouldn't get any more until after the breeding season. The most worrying thing is that from their nest site they can see right into the ivy where the blackbirds nest is. http://www.seaanglingnews.co.uk Link to post Share on other sites
chesters1 1549 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 I counted 20 magpies in one tree a few years ago ,they co-exist very nicely in flocks Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle Mathew 4:19 Grangers law : anything i say will turn out the opposite or not happen at all! "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson Link to post Share on other sites
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