On 25/06/2014 10:09, CT wrote:
David Hill wrote:

Have a look at

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&k...4eckwlgz c_bb

I've also seen CDs strung up, although whether they actually work or
not...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A neighbour who got fed up with magpies pulling the babies out of the
local robins' nests and eating them, took to scaring off the predatory
birds with a .177 airgun.

These birds are not daft and would not hang around if his back door or
window was open. He carved some Balsa wood and glued one of these
inexpensive reflex red dot sights which makes for very accurate shooting.

Firing over their heads is enough for them to go elsewhere permanently.
These birds you mention are classed as *vermin* and can be legally
shot at, to scare them away.