[fudgeybabe]

I too have had a magpie on a bird feeder. This was two weeks ago when I saw a magpie swooping low under the eaves of the bungalow. When I looked through the glass door I saw him sitting on top of the feeder. Mine is the squirrel proof type which has been filled with nuts for the tits over the past 8 years. The first year I moved in I struggled with keeping the nuts for the tits as squirrels dismantled all the wire ones I bought. This one has been ideal as it is now situated attached to the brickwork of the bungalow just under the large porch and I have watched my family of tits enjoying the nuts over the past seven years.
Lately I have not seen them and the nuts are not going down. I fear that the magpies have killed off (or frightened off) my regular family of tits who always inhabited the bird box.
Is there anything I can do to (sorry folks) get rid of the magpies from my garden? I must add that we have a large garden whose perimeter is surrounded in very old tall trees which we are not allowed to prune because of a preservation order.
Sorry folks but I miss my family of tits, indeed all the little birds, who used to live in my garden, seem to have been missing this year and I miss all of them.
Incidentally, talking of cats - a neighbour had her cat attacked by two magpies and the cat had to undergo a great deal of surgery as a result.