Quote Originally Posted by Gary C View Post
He's fine Ray. Your argument is incorrect, by the same token you could be enticing the pigeons if you have corn fields.

He is feeding the song birds, which are scarce and therefore is within his rights to do so. Because he has created an envirnonmentally friendly garden he has songbirds nesting (some I believe quite rare and threatened) which are being predated on my the magpies.
For this reason he is (with regret) shooting the magpies to protect these songbirds.
That, my friend, is a watertight defense, as long as he kills them clean and no pellet leaves his boundary
I only wish I could have said that as succinctly
Thank you Mr C.
Still the fact remains that in a suburban garden Mrs shockedandappalled may still report you to the authorities - and that even with a water tight defence would be a right pain in the proverbial.