Maggies !

[Guest Webby]

Well i started shooting over a year ago and had not managed to ever shoot a magpie till this morning !!!

 

 

Could hear one out the back in the big oak tree, upstairs i went got the 95k spotted it and bang, fell clean outta the tree. Just as i put the gun down to send dog to retrieve it i heard another. Spotted that too and flattened that.

 

Then there was another going mad, think it was the mother of the other 2 i'd just put to sleep, that too fell stone cold to the ground .

 

After not been able to shoot one in over a year i get 3 in less than 2 minutes lol.

 

Took a couple of pics.

Theres only 2 in the picture cos i couldnt find the other, it had fallen in som big brambles.

 

Managed to get it later on wi the help of the dog

 

 

 

Good hunting all :friends:

[Stabs 3]

Nice one Webby. The less noisy b*****ds about the better.

[Guest Webby]

i,ve never shot 1 yet either. even if u gentle open door an inch or 2 the c**ts are gone :realmad:  :realmad:

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i always had same problem paddy

 

But this time it was outta the bathroom window its only a small top opener so no noise

[maty j 6]

i found the same, there verry wary but once youve nailed one dont move because the others generaly come and see whats happened. and they go mental. i saw a few this morning but as soon as i raised my rifle there off.

[pegandgun 52]

They look like two adults to me.Well done!!!

[Guest Webby]

Well two of em were smaller than the other thats why i thought maybe the young out with mother ???

 

Any way the songbirds have been singing like never before out the back now

[SINDASOX 256]

Been watching a few of the springwatch programmes with Bill Oddie + Kate Humble the last few week's.

 

On one of the programme's he was on about people phoning in who had problems with magpies, rats, rabbits etc, etc, and Bill's advice was to leave them alone and let them get on with it, next thing you see is the camera's on a badger sett and also camera's on the barn owls, when the one camera is on the badger sett kate say's oh i think theres a mouse, bill says oh it might be a squirell, it eventually comes into full view and it's a feckin rat, the first thing bill say's is oh lets get back to the barn owls nobody want's to see a rat. I enjoy the wildlife programmes, but Bill Oddie can be a bit of a dick on times.

 

SINDASOX :realmad: :realmad:

[Guest what a flight]

Bill oddies a soft twat who knows f**k all about birds/wildlife,

on the last series,while panning footage of the peregrines nesting on the quarry,he started saying how they where still stolen from the wild by dishonest falconers who then sold them on to rich arabs for thousands of pounds ,{even though they can be legally bought for under a grand}the bbc where hit with hundreds of complaints and soft arse oddie had to apologise live on air the next day or have his arse kicked in court by the hawk board and the british falconers club...

If he was that clued up on birds,he would of known that without captive breeding and re-introductions by falconers,he would be seeing far less pere's and goshawks in the wild today

 

W A F.......

[J Darcy 5,871]

great ;posts guys....re maggies...they are present in a higher thasn "natural" population due to the fact that they are scavenging our waste....i watched 10 long tail tits nest this spring and 8 were taken by maggies (or crows)....now, that isnt nature....

[novice 25]

Your right JD, its not natural. Human activities can create conditions that are more favourable for certain species to the detriment of others. It is our responsibility to try and correct this balance. People like Odie don't seem to be able to grasp this fact a lot of the time. I reckon you would be hard pressed to find any 'pristine wilderness' in the UK that hasn't been shaped by humans. Sometimes its as if they think that after the ice age receeded the hedgerows and coverts were already in place!!!!!!! :11:

[lucky 578]

a mate of mine who keeps singing birds phoned me at the weekend to borrow my air rifle after magpies attacked his birds which he keeps in individual mule cages, they killed a goldfinch cock, a canary cock, broke the legs on two mules and stripped the flight feathers off the wing on another mule :realmad:

he was out while all this happened but it was recorded by his cctv cameras,the magpies were clung to the cages with one leg while trying to drag the birds out of the cage with the other.

[J Darcy 5,871]

funny you should say tyhat Lucky..i once had a grrat cock brambling and onemorning i hung him outin a singer , just for a change of scenery for him....ten minutes later theres a maggie clung to the top of the cage.....needless to say....that maggie is no more!!!