"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 5/8/06 23:42, in article , "Alan
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 3/8/06 10:58, in article
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"DB01" wrote:


"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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How do you discourage the magpies? We do get a couple trying to enter
the
ivy covered poplar that all the small birds live

They're a pest and a pain, handsome though they are. The old country
people
used to inject an egg with poison and put it into nests the magpies
were
plundering - or shoot them, I'm afraid.
--
Sacha

A much maligned species.

Not when they destroy other small birds.

Alan

Indeed. I've seen them do it and it's not pretty.

It might not be pretty, but predation is just a part of nature.