I cannot have anything green exposed in my garden such as: lettuces, cabbage and winter brassica, spinach etc. So invest in netting (over hoops which keeps the white butterfly at bay,too)
Last spring I mulched an outside container with lovely glittery glass stones. Needless to say they have disappeared from the pot but I keep coming across the odd one when mowing the grass or in borders under the trees. I’d love to see the nest of my magpies!
Magpies and especially fledglings are unnecessarily destructive. Every year they nest in a field across from my house and in June I get inundated with them. Yesterday my 90 year old (dementia suffering) mother watched them rip a baby rabbit to bits on the lawn and I found another at the back of the house with it's stomach spread all over the patio. I have 3 tame robins that I feed but they have gone into hiding and all day long I hear the horrible noise of the magpies chattering excitedly like a football rattle.
I've never killed a bird but it's a good job they are protected and I don't know how to shoot a gun.
I managed to get rid of my Pigeon problem. At first I thought it was cute when one cheekily followed me into the garage to take seed from my hand and when he brought a mate along a few days later I felt like Dr Doolittle. Unfortunately word got around and a week later I had flocks of them stalking me like a Hitchcock film.
I tried spraying them with the garden hose but after a while I'm sure they came along for a free shower as they seemed to spread their wings and weren't the least bit bothered.
I then purchased a Nerf gun with foam bullets that whistle when they are flying through the air. I've never managed to hit a pigeon but have lost plenty of bullets in the gutters.
The pigeons have now totally disappeared and I've learnt a lesson on what kind of friends to make. So I'm now pigeonless and wiser.
I have 3 tame robins that I feed but they have gone into hiding
This is the one thing that I find particularly disappointing. I used to see plenty of song birds in the garden up until a few years ago. I perceive them as the 'garden bully'.
They will eat just about anything, and they obviously eat more than the other garden birds. The only species I see now is the occasional visit of a blackbird and a fleeting visit of a Robin.
A magpie caught a mouse on my patio. I'd rather have the magpies. A local cat owner must have moved away. I haven't seen a cat for a few months so I'm glad they're taking up the slack😊
I managed to get rid of my Pigeon problem. At first I thought it was cute when one cheekily followed me into the garage to take seed from my hand and when he brought a mate along a few days later I felt like Dr Doolittle. Unfortunately word got around and a week later I had flocks of them stalking me like a Hitchcock film.
I tried spraying them with the garden hose but after a while I'm sure they came along for a free shower as they seemed to spread their wings and weren't the least bit bothered.
I then purchased a Nerf gun with foam bullets that whistle when they are flying through the air. I've never managed to hit a pigeon but have lost plenty of bullets in the gutters.
The pigeons have now totally disappeared and I've learnt a lesson on what kind of friends to make. So I'm now pigeonless and wiser.
I always wanted a Nerf gun anyway.
Lol. I wonder if it will work on the crows invading my magpies' territory.
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I've never killed a bird but it's a good job they are protected and I don't know how to shoot a gun.
My thoughts were murderous.
I tried spraying them with the garden hose but after a while I'm sure they came along for a free shower as they seemed to spread their wings and weren't the least bit bothered.
I then purchased a Nerf gun with foam bullets that whistle when they are flying through the air. I've never managed to hit a pigeon but have lost plenty of bullets in the gutters.
The pigeons have now totally disappeared and I've learnt a lesson on what kind of friends to make. So I'm now pigeonless and wiser.
I always wanted a Nerf gun anyway.
They will eat just about anything, and they obviously eat more than the other garden birds. The only species I see now is the occasional visit of a blackbird and a fleeting visit of a Robin.
A local cat owner must have moved away. I haven't seen a cat for a few months so I'm glad they're taking up the slack😊
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...