Magpie

[lolliepop]

PML and I are taking it in turns to patrol the garden as we have blackbirds, thrushes tits and robin all nesting in our garden and this magpie is trying to get at the nests. I hate those birds before now they have destryed all the young in one of the nests.

[merseycat]

I fully understand your concern Lollie. It happens in our garden as well.

Last year, whilst in the garden, I heard a terrible racket coming from the trees. I looked around just in time to see a magpie flying from a backbirds nest with an egg in its' beak - followed across the rooftops by very angry, screaming parents.

[shemlock]

*Backs up Lolly with patrol duty*
We have had Goldfinches nesting regularly in the same bush for years, but one year, it was ransacked by the Magpies, who had the cheek to eat the babies under my kitchen window.
Not my favourite bird.

[Sharon Sharealike]

We had some nesting nearby the other year but they weren't around so much last year.

It does make for a nervous summer.

x

[Peek]

I'm sure I heard somewhere ( it might have been Bill Oddie's programme) that Magpies only take dead chicks from the nest, not live ones.