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Old 12-06-2012, 05:39 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Magpies digging up plants & nicking tags?

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:08:00 +0100, mogga
wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:34:18 +0100, Adam Funk
wrote:

I recently found that something had been digging around in one of my
vegetable containers; at first I figured it was a cat, but there was
no poo, & three copper plant tags had disappeared. I've seen magpies
around occasionally this year, & someone told me they like to take
shiny things back to their nests.

Comments, suggestions?



They're eating the carrots here


Here, today, two of the b**t**ds attacked and killed two young birds
who were on the bird table when they wanted to take over. I couldn't
get out of the house in time to scare them off. A third youngster got
off onto the ground and (s)he was also attacked and didn't survive
more than a minute or so (fortunately given the lack of an eye and a
leg).

Cheers, Jake
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