[Help] Protecting Garden Birds - Magpies - Advice Please

[WATFORD zero]

Grow lots of mint in your garden. Not only a great herb to serve with lamb but it deters rats as well, they hate the smell..

Not sure if it works with magpies though or any other pie for that matter.


TNBA


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Piglets Lamb Hotpotpie

 

[Coldeanseagull]

An abundance of magpies indicates an abundance of food sources. Nature sorts itself out until humans stick their noses in and f*** up the status quo.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[Petunia]

I have a very personal issue with magpies from when I lived in Canberra as a child and couldn't go in the garden in nesting season without being swooped and had to fend them off with an umbrella when I walked to school. I was told that if I stared them out they would back off but I was never inclined to try it. The magpies here leave us alone but do frighten the cat. I am all in favour of biodiversity but I can't see anything good about them.

I got swooped today by 2 of the buggers and it’s only July. Swooping season is normally the end of August till early October