You can lure them in with eggs or dog food before you catch your first bird

Works best with a call bird though

Posted By: Old Git on June 23rd 2008 at 15:48:17

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I foresee only bad things for Blackbird Junior in my back garden (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 14:59:00
- I have dismembered great tit waiting for my attention as we speak (n/m) (General Chat) - dear prudence, Jun 23, 15:20:11
  - Great tits (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 23, 15:37:31
- we've had a bit of a decimation of local bird population (General Chat) - camcan, Jun 23, 15:04:00
  - I can see to the cats with my nerf supersquirty water pistol (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 15:09:33
    - Fuckern Magpies.... (General Chat) - snowman, Jun 23, 15:13:52
    - Nature for a cat as well alas (General Chat) - camcan, Jun 23, 15:11:57
      - Nope (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 15:14:48
    - We have a pair (at least) of magempies. It's a wonder we get any other birds at all. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 23, 15:10:42
      - They are the legions of Satan (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 15:12:40
        
        Nope, that'd be mosquitos (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jun 23, 15:30:06
        
        Huh? (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 23, 15:36:20
        
        Hmmm, suppose there *must* be something that preys on mozzies (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jun 23, 15:45:28
        
        Lots of things eat them........... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 23, 15:46:38
        
        And then you eat the owl. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 23, 15:42:31
        
        Very good point. I bow to thee. (n/m) (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 15:32:22
        
        Get the gamekeeper to catch them in a Larsen trap (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 23, 15:21:39
        
        (Gittie: woss a Larsen trap?) (Can't GIYLF, busy doing lead calcs.) (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 15:33:11
        
        Humane cage trap thing which crucially already has a live magpie in it as bait. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 23, 15:39:49
        
        You can lure them in with eggs or dog food before you catch your first bird (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 23, 15:48:17
        
        Brilliant way of catching corvids (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 23, 15:37:06
  - I saw a goldfinch for the first time in donkeys on Saturday. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 23, 15:06:07
    - saw a lot of those last week (General Chat) - camcan, Jun 23, 15:07:02
      - Donkeys? (n/m) (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Jun 23, 15:07:45
        
        I did see two donkeys as well (General Chat) - camcan, Jun 23, 15:08:18
        
        Were they lost then? (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 23, 15:08:47
        
        no they live on the alpaca farm (General Chat) - camcan, Jun 23, 15:10:23
        
        Good. I was worried for said donkeys. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 23, 15:11:31
        
        They seemed quite content (General Chat) - camcan, Jun 23, 15:13:43
        
        indeedy. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 23, 15:14:08

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