Larsen

[No1ShottySid 0]

What are your best methods to catch your first call bird, wheather its using a decoy or eggs etc.

[Tis TM 8]

What are your best methods to catch your first call bird, wheather its using a decoy or eggs etc.

 

Haven't had to do it too often because friends have provided the call bird, but when I have, the mock nest has worked every time. Crack open an egg or two, they cant seem to resist it

[patdahat 41]

iv got my first bird with egg,s in a nest and also the front half of a rabbit. happy trapping

[No1ShottySid 0]

Ok i will give the eggs in a nest a try, do you use a decoy or just the nest?

[patdahat 41]

have never used a decoy, bearly cover the egg's with some hay/grass/straw, whatever you make the nest of, as i am led to believe when a bird leave's a nest with egg's it covers them over to keep them warm. it work's fo me anyway :thumbs-up:

[rabid dog 0]

hi guys i have been trying to catch a call bird for 2 weeks now using the fake nest and decoy but have had ny eggs eaten and decoy abused can any body help/ give me magpie or crow im in the mid wales area pm me ill reply

[Guest JohnGalway]

Caught mine by accident. So I can't help with your question, but I'd like to offer a suggestion for when you start catching. I'll start by saying I live in a mild area of the world, though we do get a lot or rain and wind there's not much of the -4 degrees etc. I kept two magpies over the winter. One was out in a Larsen, one was in a large cage in a shed as a back-up. Two sides of my Larsen were closed to the weather with 6mm board, one half of the roof was boarded similarly, this year I'll also add 6mm board to both of the doors - it's a drop in entry Larsen. The Larsen was sited in a sheltered field and I always had the side that faced the prevailing winds covered. He got fed a tin of catfood (Lidl, cheap stuff) and some ewe&lamb ration every other day. Water was naturally fresh each day.

 

Some may critisize me for having the bird out since September through the Winter but I can honestly say I have a healthier, fitter magpie now than then. I caught fifty magpies in that time in two spots not two hundred yards apart.

[Holdaway 2]

Good going JohnGalway, I was going to keep my call bird over the winter too, but as I was away for a few weeks I had to dispatch it before I went (no one to feed it).

 

My larson is also set up in a permanent position and now it's time to bait up I think

 

All the best

 

H