I went into the terminal to pick up my first load this morning and when i pulled onto
the loading rack,i heard a load of clanking from above my head.
When i looked up i saw a pair of magpies building a nest in the pipe bridge,with welding rods
There is a company in the terminal building new loading racks and the magpies are pinching the
welding rods
I couldnt help having a chuckle to myself as i imagined one of them with a welding mask on and
mig.
Andy
Well at least while they're nicking welding rods they're not killing young birds and nicking eggs!
Wanna borrow me gun?
We had a poorly hedgehog in our garden the other day - looks like a fox had got it. As it stumbled round the garden a couple of magpies were trying to peck it to death!
Would love to borrow your gun but would get barred from the terminal.
Problem is the bloody things are gonna crap on everyones heads for the next several weeks,
Andy
You just cannot trust these Newcastle supporters, some nick welding supplies other try to kill small mammals !
quote:
Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
Well at least while they're nicking welding rods they're not killing young birds and nicking eggs!
Wanna borrow me gun?
I've also got a Magpie trap if you want Just put a live Magpie in one end and the others try and rescue it and get stuck in the other end,
then it's easy peasy. You can peck them to death then if you want.
Not so you'd notice but I hate the damn things, they're evil, nasty, heartless noisy bar stewards!
Magpies are horrible bloody things, the rise in their number is thought by many to be the number one cause of the decline in many native english bird
species. Do what you need to.....
righto then
One day a couple of years ago 2 magpie attacked and killed blackbird outside work. A collared dove attacks and drove off the magpies. It still attacks any magpies it sees. I think they're getting a complex about it as they start the alarm calls as soon as the dove appears.
SWMBO looks after injured hedgehogs. She has kept a blind one for some months now.
Magpies pecked both its eyes out after it too was injured.
I keep chickens and noticed a drop in eggs. I saw some maggies flying out of the nest box, they speared the eggs
on their beaks and landed on the lawn to drink the yolk out of them.
Very clever birds......... Or at least........ they were.
They're nothing but a crow with a fancy paint job!
quote:
Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
I've also got a Magpie trap if you want
If you shoot a Magpie and there are others around they are inquisitive and come to see what happened and you get to shoot more of them. I watched a pair of Magpies trying to get to a Collared Dove nest in a conifer and as soon as they were close the Doves just bombed them knocking them out of the tree. Some Corvids are intelligent creatures with problem solving abilities on a par with apes and some use tools, Magpies are able to recognise themselves in a mirror which is a test of intelligence a lot of mammals fail. You can still shoot them though.