I've just repaired the felt on my shed roof as those dam black and white vandals ripped it off. They also occasionally dance on my conservatory. I know it's them as I caught them red handed (or red winged).
Other than hiring a living scarecrow is there anyway to keep them off my property?
>Ideas for scaring magpies?
Tell them about how, once you leave school/ university, you basically have 50+ years of working 9-5 to just about scrape together enough money to pay off a 25-year loan used to buy the home you live in, and the state pension system will be essentially bankrupt by the time you retire, leaving you to try to support yourself through your retirement and the care you need in it before you die?
I mean, I suppose Step 1 would be "learn to communicate with magpies", but still, you get the gist.
And I guess if you're being picky this might not keep them off your shed roof; but at least they'd be less boisterous?
magpies are my fave birds. why would you want to scare them away. i love a good chat with them when out riding, or sat in my garden having a cuppa.
Corvids are very clever. In Sweden they have taught them to pick up cigarette butts.
So perhaps you could put them to good use in your neighbourhood
All the best,
Worzel
The things that see off our magpies are jackdaws, ringneck parakeets and squirrels.
The local pair that come into my garden for the feeders are pretty wary, if they see the slightest movement behind the back windows they’re off, I haven’t had any chance to let them get to know me and feed them when I’m outside.
I can’t for the life of me think why they’re tearing the felt roofing on a shed, they build nests from woven twigs broken from handy trees, the local crows raid my silver birch, it’s entirely possible the pair of maggies that come to my feeders use the same twigs, I haven’t seen them though.
I’d make sure the felt is properly secured then put chicken wire over the top and staple it down to stop it moving, and enjoy the maggies for the really beautiful birds they are.
Have you considered placing a wolf on your shed roof?
House down the road from me has CDs strung up in a line.. is that for magpies? Maybe they have catoptrophobia in case they are vampires 😛
Nice photo🙂