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Magpies and peas

islandanchoressislandanchoress Posts: 238
in Fruit & veg
As I live on an offshore island with no real trees, this is the first year I have seen/heard magpies, I am growing ( or was!) lovely purple podded peas ( blauschokke) with the prettiest flowers but when I went out to pick, they had been stolen. Just the purple ones, not the green. I have improvised protection until I can get netting, but I had no idea magpies would take them. Is this common please?

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Magpies eat all sorts of stuff. They're opportunists. :)
    Other birds do as well - sparrows, pigeons etc 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Our resident magpies pinched all the night lights my husband had put along the garden path to surprise me when I came home on my birthday. It was him who got surprise when he came out to light them only to see that last one been pilfered 🤣
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    @Butterfly66- I wonder if they came out the other end the same way....   :D
    They used to nick tomatoes out the greenhouse here, but I enjoyed watching two juveniles fighting over a piece of moss recently that they must have thought was food. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • islandanchoressislandanchoress Posts: 238
     We have not had them out here in the ocean before. And few other birds and i have six cats..I covered the stand with the only thing I had; a crimson organza curtain. Works well . Next year will get netting 
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