yngwies Cat 7:58 Wed Jun 27
Magpies
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Shit Birds, make a right racket. I hate them.
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Mike Oxsaw
3:14 Sat Jun 30
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Tufty! What are YOU doing here???
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pdbis
1:25 Sat Jun 30
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Blue Peters
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Spandex Sidney
1:16 Sat Jun 30
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I live on the Isle of Wight, only got red squirrels here. Tiny little things, beautiful to see them.
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jack flash
12:30 Sat Jun 30
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I don't mind magpies & they're nowhere near as raucus as jays. As has been said they are incredibly intelligent & easily tamed
While it is true that they are opportunistic & will raid other birds nests (as do many other birds including jays & woodpeckers) they feed mainly on carrion
The damage they cause to other birds nests (& trees for that matter) pales into insignificance compared to the damage caused by grey squirrels
Sadly, grey squirrels seem to be widely accepted by many misguided people in this country who are blissfully unaware of the problems they cause
I live in area where endangered red squirrels are under serious threat because of the diseases that 80% of greys carry (& are immune to but cause a slow & painful death to reds)
One disease is similar to parvo virus in dogs, another is ssimilar to myxomatosis in rabbits. Horrible to seen reds suffing from these diseases
The government should call for an urgent cull on grey squirrels rather than giving wealthy farmers a £50 bounty on badgers
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gph
12:06 Sat Jun 30
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I like magpies.
Especially as they make apparently rational people go into superstition overdrive.
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Cheezey Bell-End
11:53 Sat Jun 30
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Attacking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A7Gw217EJ4
Warbling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZDIyvYqEC8
The warbling of magpies along with the laughing call of a family of kookaburras is the regular wake up call of many people in eastern Australia.
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Ronald_antly
7:55 Sat Jun 30
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The Australian Magpies have a very pleasant warble, and most of the year I enjoy their presence.
However, during the breeding season (August to December) some males turn into right fucking bastards.
Their main targets are cyclists and motorcyle posties. They will either attempt to peck at your ears, sometimes with success as my wife can attest, or they will go for a full contact 'body slam' to the back of your head.
It is surprising they don't injure themselves given the degree of impact that sometimes occurs.
The real psychopaths will go for your eyes.
I used to cycle 28km to work, and that took me through a few different 'hotspots'. It can be VERY unnerving.
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lowermarshhammer
7:55 Thu Jun 28
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Normally you see magpies in ones and twos.
Every once in a while all the local magpies will meet up and have a team meeting. 15 or 20 of them. They will then bugger off and keep themselves to themselves.
Clever as fuck they are. Very adept at not getting splatted by vehicles traveling at speed as they eat carrion.
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Mr Anon
7:00 Thu Jun 28
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You have to say " Aye Aye Captain" to a single Magpie!
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yngwies Cat
6:51 Thu Jun 28
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So seeing one is bad luck. You have to whistle at it and say 'Helo my Magpie, how's the wife and kids. If you see two it's good luck.
If you see a single one, then a bit later another single one does that have a cumalitive effect thus, negating the bad luck?
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Nurse Ratched
5:53 Thu Jun 28
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They're following you, JAC.
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JAC
4:56 Thu Jun 28
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I am a bit paranoid when it come to magpies.
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Mr Anon
4:24 Thu Jun 28
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JAC 10:41 Wed Jun 27
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Wow, you sound like you have a few issues mate
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Swiss.
3:22 Thu Jun 28
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Johnson you are a really boring cunt aren't you?
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yngwies Cat
3:22 Thu Jun 28
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Jenny Hanley she was in a hammer house horror movie back before making the jump to kids TV.
Bit of a sort
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lowermarshhammer
3:18 Thu Jun 28
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Magpies are a beautiful bird, catch them in the right light and see an iridescent plumage that is perhaps second only to the kingfisher's in terms of it's prominence for UK native species.
If "pica pica" came from the tropics people would rave about them as if they were a bird of paradise. Of course they are a corvid and so will happily smash up nests and fledglings but as I have stated before on WHO ornithology threads it is abhorrent to impose human values onto the natural world. Magpies are just doing their shit and should really be left to do it.
By far and away the bigger problem for songbirds is lack of habitat and changes in farming practices and the almost total annihilation of insects at the base of the food chain in the countryside compared to when I was a kid.
But hey if bumping off a few magpies makes you feel better because they eat the fluffy lickle fledglings my thoughts aren't going to change yours.
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Johnson
1:51 Thu Jun 28
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You could but no one would believe you.
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Swiss.
1:45 Thu Jun 28
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I could tell you a few "Blue" Peter stories.
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Claret Badger
12:17 Thu Jun 28
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ENGLISH PARROTS AND PROUD
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