MN Vote : Magpies to shoot or not to shoot ...........that is the question?

[lilymolly]

2 Magpies arrived in garden 3 weeks ago.

EVERY morning at 5am till 7am they attack the windows and patio doors causing loud bangs.
Dogs bark...... dd awake...... lilymolly well and truly pissed off.
Have tried barracading windows, closing curtains, putting up massive picture of cat and yet still the biggers tap tap tap tap and fecking tap!!!!!!
Now last year the same happened with crows and dp shot them and peace was once again at lilymollys house.

BUT everyone tells me that the it is unlucky to kill a magpie, but I am at my wits end.

Please vote
Shoot or not
If not all sensible suggestions will be tried
Thanks x

Shoot them. I found two of them torturing a blackbird that was trying to get into hiding under my car. He died eventually. They are vile creatures.

Ooh,snap girlfrommars!

Y'all know me

OOps
Spent too long looking for the link.

Don't shoot! There must be some other way to deter them.

i quite like them

Shoot the rabbit. That's ok. But somehow it seeems awful to shoot the magpies. Because you can't eat them? Or because of their stunning black-and-white plumage? One or the other.

Shoot them.
Or come round to mine and borrow my Larsen trap, then trap them and wring their necks.
Saves on cartridges

They are pests, they kill other songbird chicks, and there are billions of them around.
We kill masses and don't seem to have suffered any bad luck from it...

Lots of animals kill other animals. I wonder why people hate magpies for doing that?

PPH - isn't your DH physically conjoined to the Larsen? Perhaps I'm thinking of some other trap obsessed DH?

How are quails coming on btw?

Are all the anti-magpie MNers in the south? There seem to be far fewer magpies in the north.

yes he loves it
there is no way he would let it leave the property
I was sort of banking on lilymolly NOT taking up my kind offer lolol

Quails are hatching on monday! Well that is the plan
My chicks are being put outside tomorrow ... they moved from the house to an outbuilding and are now going outside but will still have their electric hen to keep them warm at night
they are so big and feathery considering they are only 3 weeks old
I think the electric hen is so much better for feathering up than an infrared lamp.

I can't believe I have an opinion like that let alone have typed it on mumsnet. My my how things change

arf @ electric hen and opinions of!

Threadworm I am in the north!
and a Sunderland fan so one extra reason to hate magpies (nickname for newcastle)

I put up carrier bags in each window last night hooked into the windows so they flapped around, and they only tapped once this morning and woke dd up at 6am

Well, I love Magpies and am in the South. They are truly magnificent creatures. Don't shoot.

aah yes lilymolly
i remember you and your crows
don't shoot the magpies
too much badluck [shuffles off to look in her crystalball]

We hung cds in the window of our loft cinversion as th ecrows were landing on the ledge and pecking the windows at 5am.

they didn't come back.

Think it was the reflection.

Oh will try the cds this weekend

where the cds inside the house or out?

DING DONG THE MAGPIES GONE!!!!!!!!!

Actually its moved left to my neighbouring farm and tapped on his window all night

Ha ha and he was one of the ones telling me not to shoot, but even he wants them shot now!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad they've gone and left you in peace, lilymolly.

My DCs are Sunderland fans too. I wanted them to be Newcastle fans because I like the monocrome look more than red and white. Plus my love of magpies.

THEY ARE BACK...........

SHOOT HAPPENING ON SATURDAY

LM X

ALL SPECTATORS WELCOME

they're babies, you'll be shooting all the babies

shoot shoot shoot shoot

they are wrecking the windows
Sad I know, but hey life in the country is tough.....

You could try this trap

Why have you ignored this link threadworm put up before?

www.rspb.org.uk/advice/watchingbirds/behaviour/birds_and_windows/attacking.asp

it is the breeding season and all they are doing is defending their young/territory, if you had read the link!

Birds are living creatures and it really fucks me off to read some of you talking about wiping them out as if they are nothing.

Oh and the one with the wild rabbit who in your own words is doing no harm, hope you were joking about killing it? Not that I find it amusing if you are...