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bogarde73
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Am I my magpies' keeper?
Dec 10th, 2015 at 3:13pm
 
A pair of magpies and their chick started hanging round a few weeks ago so I put out a bit for them when I was feeding the dog.
Big mistake.

I've never heard a more whinging, petulant creature than this chick. It's there first thing in the morning, sitting on the TV aerial, waiting for me to feed the dog, and calling non-stop. It does this a few times a day as well.
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Reply #1 - Dec 10th, 2015 at 3:16pm
 
I like magpies I would put up with them

As for Indian Mynah birds I agree with Bob Katter people should be allowed air rifles to shoot them.

The greens will object to air rifles being used they will insist on the usual trapping then gassing them with CO2.
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Reply #2 - Dec 10th, 2015 at 3:19pm
 
I'm still feeding them but how long does a magpie hen feed its chick. The chick is bigger than the hen.
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Reply #3 - Dec 10th, 2015 at 3:20pm
 
bogarde73 wrote on Dec 10th, 2015 at 3:19pm:
I'm still feeding them but how long does a magpie hen feed its chick. The chick is bigger than the hen.


Can it fly?
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Reply #4 - Dec 10th, 2015 at 3:22pm
 
Oh yeah it can fly. It gets there first and squawks till the hen comes down to feed it.
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Reply #5 - Dec 10th, 2015 at 3:24pm
 
bogarde73 wrote on Dec 10th, 2015 at 3:22pm:
Oh yeah it can fly. It gets there first and squawks till the hen comes down to feed it.


It will probably take off soon.
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Reply #6 - Dec 10th, 2015 at 3:24pm
 
Very upper class, it expects to be waited on at table.
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Reply #7 - Dec 10th, 2015 at 4:16pm
 
Join the club sucker!

Each spring I start feeding a pair of Currawongs off our back deck.

After a week or two swooping develops between the Currawongs and the Magpies who now want feed for their young one


Eventially the bloody squarking young magpie also demands his feed as you said.

Anyway I thinks its over for this year!

Apart from the magpies serenading us at the top of their voices at 5:30am outside our bedroom window!

The Mrs:   "Can you turn the radio up I cant hear above those noisy magpies!"
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Reply #8 - Dec 11th, 2015 at 10:36am
 
My poor wife once got her lip torn open by a magpie at Cottlesloe Beach. We were walking along a sidewalk and man in a unit above us was leaning out his window waiting for it to happen knowing about the nest. Rather than warn us he laffed after it happened. Had he been within striking distance I would have punched him in the throat.
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Reply #9 - Dec 23rd, 2015 at 9:42pm
 
I wouldn't encourage feeding magpies and currawongs. The added advantage it gives them, encourages them further and they're already being encouraged just by the habitats we create (grasslands/lawns). They then outcompete the smaller, and more specialised birds, that are already having a hard time. Currawongs, especially, prey on little birds nest.

They're as common as muck, and aggressive jerks Tongue

Providing a water source, up out of reach from cats/dogs can bring a wider variety of birds to your back yard.
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Reply #10 - Dec 23rd, 2015 at 10:16pm
 
 

I don't know much about Magpies, except they have a nice singing voice in the morning's- but it seems that Pelicans will eat almost anything-don't watch if your squeamish.

I watched from between my finger's.
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Reply #11 - Dec 23rd, 2015 at 10:23pm
 
AiA wrote on Dec 11th, 2015 at 10:36am:
My poor wife once got her lip torn open by a magpie at Cottlesloe Beach. We were walking along a sidewalk and man in a unit above us was leaning out his window waiting for it to happen knowing about the nest. Rather than warn us he laffed after it happened. Had he been within striking distance I would have punched him in the throat.

ha ha! So that was you.
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Reply #12 - Dec 23rd, 2015 at 10:29pm
 
bogarde73 wrote on Dec 10th, 2015 at 3:19pm:
I'm still feeding them but how long does a magpie hen feed its chick. The chick is bigger than the hen.


it won't matter how old or big it gets ... I once had a neighbor who fed a pair of magpies at the same time every day for 5 yrs. If she wasn't there for any reason the squawking would go on for ages.
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Reply #13 - Dec 24th, 2015 at 11:48am
 
Magpies have a beautiful song reminiscent of the Australian bush.

When I was living on a property I found a Magpie after a storm.  It honestly sounded like it was saying "helppp".  It was fairly big (but probably quite young) and I picked it up and looked after it. 

I put it on the washing machine and lowered a cage over it and we fed it with a large paddle pop type stick.  After a couple of days I removed the cage permanently and it just sat there.  Unfortunately we had visitors one night and I TOLD them NOT to try to feed it but, alas, our friend's girlfriend did exactly that.  She let go of the feeding stick and the bird swallowed it.  I gently massaged its chest until it regurgitated the stick but the next day the poor thing was dead.

At the time our neighbour told me how Magpies can actually talk and how one used to wake up his grandfather, on their farm, every morning saying something like "Wake up Bill".

I never knew they could talk but I have since found out that this is quite correct.
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Reply #14 - Dec 25th, 2015 at 2:40pm
 
Black Orchid wrote on Dec 24th, 2015 at 11:48am:
Magpies have a beautiful song reminiscent of the Australian bush.

When I was living on a property I found a Magpie after a storm.  It honestly sounded like it was saying "helppp".  It was fairly big (but probably quite young) and I picked it up and looked after it. 

I put it on the washing machine and lowered a cage over it and we fed it with a large paddle pop type stick.  After a couple of days I removed the cage permanently and it just sat there.  Unfortunately we had visitors one night and I TOLD them NOT to try to feed it but, alas, our friend's girlfriend did exactly that.  She let go of the feeding stick and the bird swallowed it.  I gently massaged its chest until it regurgitated the stick but the next day the poor thing was dead.

At the time our neighbour told me how Magpies can actually talk and how one used to wake up his grandfather, on their farm, every morning saying something like "Wake up Bill".

I never knew they could talk but I have since found out that this is quite correct.


Have a look at the thread I started here "believe it or not" about magpie rescue, if you didn't see it already
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