Reply With QuoteI had one sat on the workshop roof yesterday, it seemed pretty carefree when I popped my head out of the skylite about 15 feet away from it.....
Now its seriously carefree.
Wax em all, evil bleeders.
Whist - it's the new rock'n'roll, innit?
RochdaleLad,Originally posted by RochdaleLad
Kind of proves the point really...
D.
My comment was posted 'tongue in cheek' - Im not quite that daft !
I had one sat on the workshop roof yesterday, it seemed pretty carefree when I popped my head out of the skylite about 15 feet away from it.....
Now its seriously carefree.
Wax em all, evil bleeders.
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shoot it,then if you have enough spare time start to do taxidermy ive just started it and maggies are alot easier to start with cos their tougher skinned.of course you could always take the dog for a walk and chuck them in the hedge.
Oh, alright. I didn't see any smileysOriginally posted by steven
RochdaleLad,
My comment was posted 'tongue in cheek' - Im not quite that daft !
Although my comment sorta proves how daft _I_ am, doesn't it?
Whist - it's the new rock'n'roll, innit?
Well, a dig in respect of the missing apostrophe; I'm sorry !Originally posted by RochdaleLad
Although my comment sorta proves how daft _I_ am, doesn't it?
I will try to remember BBS etiquette next time and use a smiley
sorry to jack the thread but was recently readin a book on birds and noticed a bird called an azure winged magpie, they looked like regular maggies but were bigger and had jay type wings. I have never seen one so i wondered what country they are from or if they are now extinct as the book was fairly old. R there any in nz?
Congrats on the baba by the way.
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No we used to have lots of them in the old days, but after they started to upset humans and songbirds alike, their generation ended up in the bin.Originally posted by TX Sniper
sorry to jack the thread but was recently readin a book on birds and noticed a bird called an azure winged magpie, they looked like regular maggies but were bigger and had jay type wings. I have never seen one so i wondered what country they are from or if they are now extinct as the book was fairly old. R there any in nz?
You see, in them days, inspite of them being bigger, they was only have as crafty as the ordinary species we have pestering us today.
Len
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could not say what type they are but they are an aussie import. about the size of a crow. noisy little buggers to.
si
A quick Google found this: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionar...inged%20magpie.
Jonathan
Hi,Originally posted by machasm
Wait till you get your gun out. It's a different story then.
They definately know the diffference between an un-armed man and an armed one!
Mac.
I agree, machasm.
They are clever like the crow is. Any sign of danger - then off they go.
Rgds,
Thunderbolt A-10
cheers for the info guys, settled my curiosity
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I hate Magpies but recently heard it is bad luck to kill one. So in case it is I dont even aim at them now. Apart from this I am not suspicious.
Lurchermiss
Captain Mainwaring
That'll explain why I never win the lottery then. Why I don't drive a Lambo, and why I don't have a couple of 20 year old nympho's following me everywhere looking for attention. [Who am I kidding, I couldn't cope with one...]Originally posted by peter pounds
I hate Magpies but recently heard it is bad luck to kill one.
Are you thinking of the old rhyme that goes "one for sorrow, two for joy"? I've found if you kill one, it's pal is not far behind (if it can see the first). If you're REALLY lucky, all of its 'gang' might even turn up..... I don't normally drive on those days!
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To be good, one must do good.
Whist - it's the new rock'n'roll, innit?
Update on my Guest....
Spent a little time observing the situation yesterday evening.
it appears there are two of them, and its not just my garden that has taken their fancy. Its an area of about six gardens. The roof mounted TV arials seem to be used as look-out posts, from which they fly one to the other, seemingly to protect their territory.
Notably; no other birds around really, apart from the odd sparrow
which pops down, and then bu99ers off pretty sharpishly.
Nine o'clock, and it must have been bed-e-bise time for the magpies. Obviously needed an early night because they were back out on patrol by the time I surfaced at 5.50am
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