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About LinkBacksThat would account for the look of betrayal on your dog's face, glaring out the window.Originally Posted by beanie
That would account for the look of betrayal on your dog's face, glaring out the window.
Nothing will motivate the lazy / apathetic / Americanised / west-British types to embrace their culture and the Irish language.
I'm feeding about 120 goldfinches along with a couple of pairs of blackbirds, starlings, great tits and a couple of robins. Noticed a couple of thrushes here too since the cold snap started. Hadn't had them for quite a while. Always had a handful of goldfinches down through the years. In 2008 I started to put out niger seed and the goldfinch numbers increased dramatically.
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We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner'?
Cool house, I'll give you €2.6m for it.
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Why would some twat rate this thread 1?? Do they not like birds??
If you have an airgun or rifle and see any magpies make sure to kill them. They predate on small birds. I know someone who traps and kill magpies in his neighbourhood. It has led to a bloom in the numbers of small birds around his garden during the summer.
This lad here seems to sell traps for them For Sale: Magpie, Crow, Mink & Fox Traps. - DoneDeal.ie
These dangerous immigrant birds with their ideology of hate must be stopped
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Great Thread MsAnne, consider yourself pos repped.
I feed all year round with peanuts and seeds but at this time of year I augment it with suet, fruit and grated cheese as well as fortifying my usual seed with extra sunflower seed.
My flock at the moment is mainly sparrows, chaffinches, starlings and my resident pair of blackbirds. Every day brings a visit from a pair of collared doves.
During the summer I had lots of greenfinches and blue tits as well as a few great tits and pied wagtails. A siskin visited once but mustn't have liked the fare on offer as it didn't return. For some reason I almost never have robins.
For the past 3 years, wood pigeons have tried unsuccessfully to nest in my garden, losing out once to a cat and twice to the wind. Last year, for the first time I can recall, 2 pairs of blackbirds raised at least 3 chicks. They had a nest at either end of the garden and there were many furious boundary disputes near my bedroom window.
To keep the blackbirds around I put out apples under some shrubs. Pegging them to the ground with a U shaped staple fashioned from a coat hanger, prevents jackdaws and rooks from carrying them off.
Bit of a waste of a good bullet killing a magpie, no?
Yer better off trapping them yes, you can strangle them or whatever then, so im told. cue gasps.
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BirdWatch Ireland: Are Magpies destructive towards small birds?If you have an airgun or rifle and see any magpies make sure to kill them. They predate on small birds. I know someone who traps and kill magpies in his neighbourhood. It has led to a bloom in the numbers of small birds around his garden during the summer.
This lad here seems to sell traps for them For Sale: Magpie, Crow, Mink & Fox Traps. - DoneDeal.ie
These dangerous immigrant birds with their ideology of hate must be stopped
You can do a lot more to help small birds by feeding them now in this cold snap than by shooting magpies.It is true that Magpies will take the eggs and the young of other birds. However this predation is restricted to a relatively short period, and for most of the year they take other foods. A recent survey on urban Magpies showed that eggs and young birds form a small percentage of their diet. It is probably fair to say that Magpies may sometimes be blamed for predation by domestic cats, squirrels or rats, and are often used as scapegoats when the real reason for a local decline in small birds is habitat destruction, the biggest threat of all to our birdlife. Detailed census work has shown no major decline in the populations of small birds that may be attributed to Magpies. A fluctuation in the numbers of small birds is more usually associated with habitat change or severe winters. Normally, predators do not control the numbers of their prey: the predator population cannot increase beyond a level which the prey can support. A partial predator such as the Magpie is unlikely to have any lasting effect on small birds and their hatchlings.
Last edited by MsAnneThrope; 5th January 2010 at 07:16 PM.
We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner'?
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