Nuisance magpie in garden

Fishman · 3 Jun 2012 at 12:34

We have the same problem of a magpie terrorising one of our cats. It keeps just far enough away from Jaffa to stop him catching it and makes the really annoying noises !

We think Jaffa started it last year by bringing one of its babies home for us.

Flubble · 3 Jun 2012 at 12:35

throw an onion at it... it worked for me when i had an annoying magpie in the garden making it sound like ww3 is happening out there at silly o clock in the morning, never heard it again.

godinman · 3 Jun 2012 at 12:35

Go and chase it away, repeat until it ****s off for good.

mp3duck · 3 Jun 2012 at 12:36

Fishman said:
We have the same problem of a magpie terrorising one of our cats. It keeps just far enough away from Jaffa to stop him catching it and makes the really annoying noises !

We think Jaffa started it last year by bringing one of its babies home for us.

Yeah, I think this is what Pickles did!

Flare · 3 Jun 2012 at 12:38

4T5 said:
Send your cat to Ninja school.

That is ****ing brilliant.

ElliorR · 3 Jun 2012 at 12:53

Are you sure it's a magpie and not a queen wasp? Apparently you have to be an expert to recognise them.

Edrof · 3 Jun 2012 at 13:01

Flubble said:
throw an onion at it... it worked for me when i had an annoying magpie in the garden making it sound like ww3 is happening out there at silly o clock in the morning, never heard it again.

Don't you need a license for that kind of thing? Darn, UK onion laws are so confusing.

HAz · 3 Jun 2012 at 13:03

mp3duck said:
Yeah, I think this is what Pickles did!

lol pickles

Hastarius · 3 Jun 2012 at 13:04

Chrome coated landmine. Leave it in the middle of the garden and you won't have any more problems with that Magpie

JBuk · 3 Jun 2012 at 13:27

Build a time machine, go back in time and captue a pterodactyl, train it to hunt magpies, leave it in the garden over night , easy!

only problem I see is that it may not be legal

ElliorR · 3 Jun 2012 at 13:35

JBuk said:
Build a time machine, go back in time and captue a pterodactyl, train it to hunt magpies, leave it in the garden over night , easy!

only problem I see is that it may not be legal

Well there is a massive flaw in your plan which you seem to have overlooked thus rendering your plan useless.

The atmosphere the pterodactyl lived in would not be the same as today and may not survive.

Please think things through before coming up with hair brained plans.

Russinating · 3 Jun 2012 at 13:38

They're legal to shoot. Get on it.

Jay794 · 3 Jun 2012 at 13:39

I'm surprised you even had to post this up, don't you know anyone who owns a gun?

The Funktopus · 3 Jun 2012 at 13:42

That should do it.

andicole0 · 3 Jun 2012 at 15:26

L0rdMike said:
A Magpie is a crow?

Hence they don't get on

Andi.

Belly · 3 Jun 2012 at 18:02

Depending on the size of your garden you could always consider threading fine fishing line across your plot at irregular intervals.

That should stop them dive bombing your cat.

I know it was suggested years ago as a method of keeping birds off fine seed beds.

As children we used to catch birds (and let them go) by using a garden sieve propped up with a stick to which we'd tie a piece of fine string. We'd place bread under the sieve. When the birds were feeding we'd pull the sting thereby causing the sieve to fall to the ground. Sometimes we'd catch them sometimes not.

One child in the village would catch them and feed them to his cat, his grandfather used to fire his shotgun from his living room widow at starlings in his garden. He then used to make starling pie and eat them. Uck!