Just seen a magpie kill a bird in our garden, how do we deter them?

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Been enjoying seeing all sorts of birds congregate in our garden and the variety has really increased this year. Was hoping for tits and lo and behold one appeared only to be pecked to death and carried off by a magpie. By the time we raced out it was gone. So sad a song thrush had been following me around as I tidied up from gardening. Worried all the other birds will be scared off now. How do we deter magpies.

When you introduce wolves to areas with deer populations you reduce deer collisions with cars even before a single deer encounters a wolf

Because when there are no scents of predators, deer behaviours change, they relocate less, they become less aware, more dopey, and so get hit by cars more

Once they sense that there are predators in their area they spend less time lolling im open spaces, like roads! They move from cover to cover more.

Wolves make roads safer for both deer and drivers by changing deers behaviour back to it's natural cautious predator avoiding patterns, not the dopey sitting duck behaviours they demonstrate when you give them an unnaturally predator free environment.

Team wolf here.

Not only that, but more trees are protected from deer when there are predators, before a single wolf yums even one up!

With no predators the herd doesn't act like a herd, it doesn't keep moving. It over grazes areas, rather than lightly grazing then moving along. The trees grow stronger from the light grazing (a grazed tree grows thicker leaves and defenses) rather than being killed by a herd that doesn't leave a spot until it's stripped bare

Maybe the elks at Yellowstone had just been left TOO LONG without predators, and had lost the natural prey herd behaviours of keeping moving and not acting like sitting ducks? That's isn't a case for removing predators, it's a case for not creating predator free environments in the first place!

So say I have a song bird make a moronically exposed nest in my garden. And I don't leave it to "f*CK around and find out", instead I somehow secure my garden of all predators and guard that nest like a maniac...

What happens next year? The moron bird AND it's moron chicks go and make stupidly exposed nests out in the park... And they all die anyway, multiple nests of chicks! Just not in my eyeline

Leave it alone to loose one generation of chicks? Next year's nest might be a bit more protected 🤷

It's not pretty

But it's not a kindness to interfere byaking my garden a bubble of false security this year

Yes conservationists monitoring LARGE areas can interfere for the greater good

Interfering in my garden is NOT that