magpie call bird
- Thread starter joe soapy
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- Location
- northumberland
you've had more luck than me 
got a call bird off a neighbour a few weeks ago, set trap out near where there were 11 magpies seen regularly, nothing after 4 days so moved the trap still nothing after another 4 days 
went to move it again and found the call bird with it's head ripped off and nothing in trap , I presume a stoat or something similar had got it so haven't bothered again
got a call bird off a neighbour a few weeks ago, set trap out near where there were 11 magpies seen regularly, nothing after 4 days so moved the trap still nothing after another 4 days went to move it again and found the call bird with it's head ripped off and nothing in trap , I presume a stoat or something similar had got it so haven't bothered againDoing it for the kids
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You still catching?!
Pulled mine in weeks ago. Environmental surveys let both call birds, ironic given the nature of their job
Pulled mine in weeks ago. Environmental surveys let both call birds, ironic given the nature of their job
There are few sights more heartbreaking than watching a skylark driven mad over broken eggs; or more pleasing than seeing a 'hoodie' on the receiving end of a 222-50.
If more farmers took 'corvid control' seriously the countryside would benefit enormously, and wild bird numbers would bounce back dramatically.
If more farmers took 'corvid control' seriously the countryside would benefit enormously, and wild bird numbers would bounce back dramatically.
caught a buzzard last year, nice neighbors called the pigs out
Doing it for the kids
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Need slow cooker for those
- Location
- Portsmouth
We've had a cracking year.
25 magpies and 5 crows.
Plus 3 crows released by some bloody interfering idiot. So they are not going to be easy to catch. Should give the two pairs of lapwings a good chance to raise some offspring this year.
25 magpies and 5 crows.
Plus 3 crows released by some bloody interfering idiot. So they are not going to be easy to catch. Should give the two pairs of lapwings a good chance to raise some offspring this year.
- Location
- fakenham-norfolk
Well done,good effort at least you are making a big step in controlling local predation.
thatlldaespot
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5 maggies and 2 jackdaws this year, my first year's trapping. I got so fed up with distressed swallows shrieking at mocking magpies nest raiding - so glad I finally bought that Larsen. I used a mock magpie to start, plus one side baited with mock nest and the other with some rolled barley. All done now and put away till next March.
mushnt grummmble
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Keep it out,still catching now!!
- Location
- Portsmouth
Yes don't stop just yet. Keep catching them
thatlldaespot
Member
Interesting, maybe I shouldn't have stopped so early, but I hadn't caught anything for a couple of weeks and was told that the Larsen season was late February till beginning of June, so I packed up!
Doing it for the kids
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I have to agree, in these parts all traps are gone now, once eggs are laid they seem to loose interest.
mushnt grummmble
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Look about and put a call bird near a maggy nest
- Location
- Huntingdon
Caught 6 in the last 2 weeks, the key is move the trap every other day, their territories are small at this time of year and have found just moving from one field to the next often yields a catch, 2 days in the same spot and no catch = 2 weeks in the same spot in the winter.
Food is abundant so they don't travel far.
If you catch one, leave it in there for the day, a lot of the time you catch it's mate later that day.
C B
Food is abundant so they don't travel far.
If you catch one, leave it in there for the day, a lot of the time you catch it's mate later that day.
C B
Pieces_of_Eight
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I think the old fashioned timings assume you don't leave any magpies to pair up and nest on your patch.
Newly fledged youngsters are soooo easy to catch
Newly fledged youngsters are soooo easy to catch