| Re: what do magpies like to eat appart from baby birds
I would have thought that if protecting other nesting birds is your motivation for feeding magpies, and if they do predate on other birds' nests, then providing extra food for Magpies seems counter-productive, as this will help secure the livelihoods of the Magpies and encourage further breeding by them, surely? I doubt whether any amount of food you could put out for a scavenger would ever discourage it from taking a free lunch elsewhere.
If you want a healthy population of tits, finches, sparrows & co., then surely, feed them and not the magpies.
Dominic |