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Originally Posted by Thistledo  A pair have started building a nest in the tree in my garden, scaring away the little fluffy ones that I love  . No amount of hand clapping etc has diswaded them from their efforts so I managed to get a length of string into the branch from the end of a long pole, when they come I tug on the string they soon got the message that I could reach them. So without any culling\stone throwing etc I have managed to get them to move on.
Please don't tell me I'm bad, they are noisy bullies and I'm glad to be rid of them, they can go do it somewhere else NIMBY.
Bob |
You may have done the wrong thing by sending them off .....
I had magpies nesting in my garden for two years running. Prior to that they were somewhere else but would come in to the garden to feed, and would raid the blackbirds nests. However once they were nesting in the garden I thought my blackbirds would have no chance. The male was in his third year, the female in her second year in the garden, the same pair. The magpies did not raid their nests at all whilst the magpies' young were in their nest. Indeed if a crow came into the garden the magpie seemed to take up a position between the blackbirds nest and the crow and wouldn't let it near, as if it was actually defending the blackbirds nest. However once the magpies had fledged and were no longer tied to the garden the blackbirds' eggs and young were considered fair game by the magpies. I can only assume that the blackbird presence was valued by the magpies during their nesting period as a useful set of vigilant eyes watching out for predators .... cats in particular as there were many of them about, and crows, so that they left them alone.