Where Are The Magpies

[1ndex]

I dont like them but wonder where they are

[georgegorman]

There all outside my house acting like idiots,which they are

[georgegorman]

There all outside my house,still acting stupid

[janbee]

They're in my garden and shouting and screaming their heads off. I know some people are nervous when they see only one, but it doesn't bother me. I've never been superstitious.

[Paul21455]

Inundated with the things. Noisy and predatory, I'd prefer to see and hear less of them. We're very near to a large park in a town in Lancashire and I've seen as many as 15 of the things at any one time assembled non the grassy area outside our house. Very apt that one of the collective nouns for magpies is a 'murder'. The noise they make is exactly that and their predatory nature equally fits the title.

[Marbles]

Cull them!. Too many magpies, rooks and crows. They kill the small song birds and their young. Reduce their number and we may hear a morning chorus or two.

[GabriellaG]

I have a tiny garden and there are at least 4 of them terrorising all the other birds in my garden - Somerset.

[Crystal-Girl]

we have an abundance of them in Crystal Palace; they have seen off a lot of the smaller birds and also bomb dives the heron when it occasionally visits our pond. Their constant chatter is an irritating noise but otherwise we are used to seeing them all day.

[woofgang]

there are loads of magpies around here (Hampshire) and also myriad small birds of all kinds, the morning chorus is deafening.

[ladybirder]

1ndex where abouts in the country are you? Because now you come to mention it I haven't seen one round here for may be 10 days - 2 weeks ish, which is unusual. I'm in Brighton SE Sussex.

[pusskin]

Magpies are beautifull and very clever and intelligent!
But wish we didnt have the few that come into our garden.
They have craftily drank out of our pond, and now we wonder where all our tadpoles have gone. Got eaten no doubt by the little rascals.

[brionon]

Marbles-Not Rooks surely-but the Jackdaws where I live are a Plague !

[boosey2]

In my corner of South Essex we have loads of Magpies. I have not noticed any decline.

[billoloco]

They are all in my Garden!!!!!!!!

[MICKNICHO]

There are many around my place and we feed them and they treat us like family

[MICKNICHO]

we have a family of maggies at our place and we treat them well, feed them each day and they are just like pets to us and treat us with the respect we treat them.

[Baron-Villar]

Come to our garden on the Isle of Wight! We have frequent magpie visitors.

[oldblue]

They destroy other birds nests and eat their young.

[tamborine]

Ive seen only one this week on 10m radius of Heathrow

[jeanpaul]

They keep landing in my garden and I have seen them taking young nestlings from their nests and stripping all the feathers from them and then flying away with the nestlings in their beaks to go and feed to their young.
Although they are quite magnificent looking birds, this is nature in the raw.
One nestling was a young blackbird and the male blackbird was in great distress and tried to distract the magpie, but to no avail.

[drdrmrgn]

In my garden!!