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don't get 2 close unless you want to get spit on
Easily bribed wth bananas, Lamas love bananas
don't get 2 close unless you want to get spit on
Wasn't there a pop group called Bananallama?Easily bribed wth bananas, Lamas love bananas
Be more than some. Cats are amongst the biggest wildlife killers in the UK. Poison have their place but other methods should be used first
Wasn't there a pop group called Bananallama?
You will find magpies are the real enemyInterestingly according to the RSPB, cats will only kill/capture the weak birds. They actually have no effect on the healthy bird population. From the RSPB website:
"Despite the large numbers of birds killed by cats in gardens, there is no clear scientific evidence that such mortality is causing bird populations to decline. This may be surprising, but many millions of birds die naturally every year, mainly through starvation, disease or other forms of predation. There is evidence that cats tend to take weak or sickly birds.
We also know that of the millions of baby birds hatched each year, most will die before they reach breeding age. This is also quite natural, and each pair needs only to rear two young that survive to breeding age to replace themselves and maintain the population.
It is likely that most of the birds killed by cats would have died anyway from other causes before the next breeding season, so cats are unlikely to have a major impact on populations. If their predation was additional to these other causes of mortality, this might have a serious impact on bird populations."
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-w...-garden-birds/are-cats-causing-bird-declines/
Peter
Oh yes the magpies can be the problemI believe little the RSPB say.
you can soon sort themYou will find magpies are the real enemy
When we 1st got a Larsen trap we caught 70 magpies with one trap in a summer just around our farm yardyou can soon sort them
Same hereWhen we 1st got a Larsen trap we caught 70 magpies with one trap in a summer just around our farm yard
I got that attached to the call bird I let it go at the end of the season lolSame here
We've had around 200 magpies around here in last 3 years
The difference in song bird numbers is unreal
my bird escaped thought id give it a treat and put a chicken carcase in . opened the cage and it was off like a bullet it used to have fish and chips on a Friday dogmeat on sat and pidgeon when I used to shoot themI got that attached to the call bird I let it go at the end of the season lol