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

I have not ignored the link.....To Date I have tried, putting chairs ladders over the windows, painting large pitures of cats on the windows, tying asda carrier bags onto every window whcih flutter in the wind to scare them off.

I can NOT put cling film on every window, we have 14 fecking windows in our house, and to be quite honest, theya re damagin our house. That is far more important to me than any fecking birds.

I am an absolute animal lover, i have 2 dogs, 2 horses 4 cows but in my opinion animals are below us in the food chain and if they are damaging others or yourself then something must be done.
I have allowed this to go on now for 4 weeks every day bang bang bang, dd wakes up and its driving me and dp MAD.
So sorry but tough

Magpies eat other baby birds and eggs. They are not nice.

Squirrels eat baby birds but loads of people like to go feed them in the park. Cats eat baby birds but loads of people keep them as pets.

We're all animals & we have no right to kill any other creature just for the sake of it (to stop them messing up windows or crapping on washing FFS). They're only acting on instinct to protect their babies & it'll ease off once the young have fledged.

I can'r believe the amount of people who think this entire planet & all it's wildlife is somehow less important than us & our comfort. It's pathetic.

Cant bring myself to do it!

you need someone with a hawk to scare them

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shoot.

We have sparrows in our roof, newts in the conservatory and crows in the chimney. Every year about this time the house gets covered in house martin nests until Autumn when they fly back to Africa where they came all the way from just to breed at our little house.

It's not just your planet you know!

I need to get the bottle to SHOOT....Cod do you remember the crows last year?

Yes, Cod and her stickers. Stickers!

OK. I think you need to get to the root of the problem Lily.

WHY do they like your house so much? I mean it's scary this isn't it? Once a year you turn into Tippi H. Why? What are they after? What do they want? Have you tried asking them?

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Oh yes. I pop up on ALL bird threads telling them to shoot the buggers.

Though sometimes I get too creeped out and have to leave suddenly. There are some horror stories out there.

Lily has a weird neighbour too don't you? With a science lab or something? I think he's at the bottom of all this.

They will have their revenge lilymolly.

lol
Yes cod it was with the crows!

I have a lovely house, in the country!

No Neighbour is a lovely 81 year old man, who once did wring a birds neck which had the misfortune to attack his window

I may speak to them tonight

please promise me that if we shoot them then nothing bad will happen to us

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