Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 10:03:41 GMT
I would have to disagree on the Magpies Kathy. This is a species that has seen a huge increase in population (probably 5 fold in urban areas) over the past 50 years due to human throwaway food and waste. They are natural egg stealers and take young and I have witnessed them ravaging nestlings from boxes and repeatedly raiding the nests of Blackbirds, Dunnocks and other open nesters. Their affect on our local songbird population has been devastating.
Where once we had one pair nesting for every square mile, we now have a pair every 100 yards. Perhaps the answer is for the RSPB to have a campaign of nest destroying until the population comes down.
Where once we had one pair nesting for every square mile, we now have a pair every 100 yards. Perhaps the answer is for the RSPB to have a campaign of nest destroying until the population comes down.