Injured Bird in Garden

I'm surprised the basket worked. I think my cats would just see that as a fun game of stick the paws through the gaps and whack things.

Was your dog on guard all night too?
I vote you raise it to come when summoned.
 
he dont look that ready to fly away yet.
ive never seen a juvenile magpie, im guessing?? kinda cool. Raise him as a pet.
 
Had to put the dog back in the house before bed, but most of the cats round here are domestic so was relatively confident there would be none about late on.

Missus has just text to say theres an adult one squawking and the baby is responding. Just appears it cant fully fly yet, but is flapping.
 
I once had a baby bird in my garden I dont think it knew how to fly, but ended up in an ants nest :eek:

Got the host pipe and blasted it with water to get rid of the ants, it died of shock I saw the poor buggers eyes closing slowly until they closed forever.... :(

I was only a teen at the time and probably wasnt the best choice to save the bird :rolleyes:
 
Mikoyan said:
I once had a baby bird in my garden I dont think it knew how to fly, but ended up in an ants nest :eek:

Got the host pipe and blasted it with water to get rid of the ants, it died of shock I saw the poor buggers eyes closing slowly until they closed forever.... :(

I was only a teen at the time and probably wasnt the best choice to save the bird :rolleyes:
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lol Steven King has got nothing on you :eek:
 
Efour said:
lol Steven King has got nothing on you :eek:
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It's quite a sad story on many levels, I can imagine the feeling must have been quite bad at the time... but I must be a ******* because I just can't help but lol when reading it :o
 
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3 choices.

Hit it with a Shovel dispatchiing it quickly or leave it to get ragged by the local cat or raise it as your own & train it to steal Gold.

I vote Gold robbing obviously. :p
 
If you don't want it to die put it inside. If a cat knows it's there it WILL kill it, and slowly.

Trust me, the cats will get it before it learns to fly again.

EDIT: Magpies are incredibly intelligent. They are very hard to shoot with an air rifle.
 
4T5 said:
3 choices.

Hit it with a Shovel dispatchiing it quickly or leave it to get ragged by the local cat or raise it as your own & train it to steal Gold.

I vote Gold robbing obviously. :p
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You forgot the 4th, BBQ and eat. :p
 
Pretty birds but they have killed loads of baby birds in our garden and around.
We had a blackbirds nest in some bushes just outside our window so we were watching their progress and their feathers were grown and they were about to leave the nest when I walked up the garden one day and two magpies flew out from the blackbirds nest and there were 5 dead babies on the ground.
I believe they do it to make sure their own babies survive and get rid of the competition for food
 
Keep it safe and raise it! It'll probably be able to fly soon anyway if it's a fledgling. Once it gets airborne it'll always remember you and then you have a pet Magpie when it pays a visit. How cool is that!
 
Magpies are classed as vermin. your allowed to humanely take a brick to it's head...

other than that. Leave it to it's fate or I'd be tempted to keep it if you had a cage and see if it recovers ?
 
jamesblade said:
Magpies are classed as vermin. your allowed to humanely take a brick to it's head...

other than that. Leave it to it's fate or I'd be tempted to keep it if you had a cage and see if it recovers ?
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Whoa, we got a badass over here! Can you honestly say that you'd do this to any baby living creature, vermin or not?

It looks too young to fly at the moment. Perhaps it fell out of a nest, hence why it isn't able to move properly? Any nests nearby?
 
CHokKA said:
Whoa, we got a badass over here! Can you honestly say that you'd do this to any baby living creature, vermin or not?

It looks too young to fly at the moment. Perhaps it fell out of a nest, hence why it isn't able to move properly? Any nests nearby?
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I stamped on a baby birds head when walking to work once to kill it.

It had fallen from the nest, was injured so I put it out of its misery, I didn't have time take it back home.

Even though ya know it's the right thing to do, I still said a little sorry to the mother in me head!

I've grown up on a small holding, shooting rabbits when they got mixy and generally seen things being killed rather than suffer. I suppose it differs slightly than growing up in the city!
 
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