I hate magpies!!!!!

[Don Kershane]

I've never had a problem with maggies, but minor birds are a shocker. They attack in pairs. Last year I had one swoop down to almost pavement level then come straight up at my eyes, while its partner swooped down at me from the side.
Glasses broken, head cut open, cheek and nose lacerated.
I hate minor birds

Noisy miners (grey ones) are a pain. Their numbers have exploded due to people planting showy grevilleas which provide a year round found source. Aggressive buggers which drive out and kill other birds .They may be native but their numbers are artificially high. Plants with smaller flowers are better to plant to discourage them. Don't pick one up as they have a nasty hook on their feet.

 

[fibrodreaming]

I live on a rural residential block @tigerbenji and have Magpies here ever day and never have a problem with them.

That's interesting. A few years ago a magpie family nested in a large gum tree in our front garden.

The male terrorised everybody up and down our street in spring. But he never bothered any members of my family. It seemed like he knew we belonged there and so he left us alone (thankfully).

 

[jadtiger]

Cockatoos are a very vindictive bird.The bloke next to me used to feed the rotten things and when he moved out they went on a rampage with all of his neighbours properties doing a lot of damage.Absolute pests

I love Cockatoos, destructive little buggers but hilarious at the same time. Used to have families of them come and visit and show off. One of the funniest birds on the planet.

Rats with wings

Nah, that title belongs to pigeons

Rats chew
The bastard cocky’s have chewed my handrails , fence , Foxtel dish and antenna
If I had no neighbours I’d shoot them !

Thats similar to what happened here plus they devastated a womans beautiful garden on more than one occasion.They look nice but are the opposite

 

[mike]

Cockatoos are a very vindictive bird.The bloke next to me used to feed the rotten things and when he moved out they went on a rampage with all of his neighbours properties doing a lot of damage.Absolute pests

I love Cockatoos, destructive little buggers but hilarious at the same time. Used to have families of them come and visit and show off. One of the funniest birds on the planet.

Rats with wings

Nah, that title belongs to pigeons

Rats chew
The bastard cocky’s have chewed my handrails , fence , Foxtel dish and antenna
If I had no neighbours I’d shoot them !

Thats similar to what happened here plus they devastated a womans beautiful garden on more than one occasion.They look nice but are the opposite

Magpies, Kookaburras, Rainbow Lorikeets and Cockatoos are my favourite birds.

https://youtu.be/WEFdjqt9nOA

 

[Goldust]

Wedge tailed eagles are pretty cool
I remember first time driving in the outback,seeing one on road and being blown away by how massive it was.
But Kookaburras are the best.if I started a sporting team it would be The Kookaburras.

 

[Geo]


 

[mike]

@cochise Welcome home


 

[cochise]

@cochise Welcome home


That is just plain wrong

 

[Red88_Tiger]

@cochise Welcome home


You’ve got more than 30. You will have to cull hard before the season starts.
Which one is the goal kicker

 

[Snake]

Never up set a Sulphur crested cocky if you do they will be back with the colony to destroy you they never forget ! Just have got an 8 week one going through the motions of hand raising already smart as .

 

[happy_tiger]

Have two come to my place every day for meat, they are fantastic, they come to the door or in the Garage

& wonder around. Just fantastic birds.

I live on a rural residential block @tigerbenji and have Magpies here ever day and never have a problem with them.
But when the Maggie's are close to the house the Willy Wagtails give 'them' a hard time by jumping around on on them to try to scare them away....it's fascinating to watch.
In fact nature as a whole is fascinating.

I can understand the fear Magpies instill in people when they swoop I have had many altercations with them on the golf course,having said that,where I live in the Southern Highlands of NSW we have a creek run past our property and we have a large array of wildlife around us..the wild ducks come onto our yard with the babies,sometimes up to 8/10 young ones,we feed them chick starter crumble and bread,they are thriving..the Magpies come as well and we feed them scraps plus bread etc,they follow me around like chooks and I have never had any trouble from them,,,we have a possum that comes around at night and eats some cat food with the cat..unbelievable to watch...
the funniest thing I saw was the possum walked up behind the cat and sniffed him,the cat jumped about 3 feet in the air,looked at the possum and kept eating

Possums are pains in the ass .....they'd party hard in our roofs and on our roofs ..like listening to a bowling ball being thrown from one end of the roof to the other

My best mates Dad was Chief Ranger at BFP and we'd get traps and catch them ...reckon we easily got 2 dozen over the years

 

[happy_tiger]

@cochise Welcome home


That is just plain wrong

I reckon Cochise is looking at that fold up chair wondering how many he could take out lol

 

[mike]

https://youtu.be/KqSbDcks_uA

 

[mike]


 

[Guest]

https://youtu.be/KqSbDcks_uA

Magpies around here are all friendly because the humans around here are kind to them.
Magpies remember faces for 7 years. I have a local Magpie who eats out of my hand. He brings his wife and his youngster over as well.
Magpies are good people. Treat 'em well and they'll treat you well.

 

[cochise]

https://youtu.be/KqSbDcks_uA

Magpies around here are all friendly because the humans around here are kind to them.
Magpies remember faces for 7 years. I have a local Magpie who eats out of my hand. He brings his wife and his youngster over as well.
Magpies are good people. Treat 'em well and they'll treat you well.

Magpies attack my unprovoked every spring lol. Maybe @MAGPIES1963 has had a word to them.

 

[dazza65]

What’s a group of magpies called?

Too bad we’re not crows.... a murder of magpies sounds ominous....

 

[cochise]

What’s a group of magpies called?

Too bad we’re not crows.... a murder of magpies sounds ominous....

Parliament or Tiding

 

[mikey]

What’s a group of magpies called?

Too bad we’re not crows.... a murder of magpies sounds ominous....

Parliament or Tiding

English has to be the weirdest language for describing groups of animals. There are so many words, for example:
apes – shrewdness

badgers – cete

bats – colony

bears – sloth (or sleuth)

bees – bike; drift; hive; swarm

birds – colony (roosting in large numbers); dissimulation (small birds); drift (in flight); flight (in flight); flock; parcel; rush (migrating)

boars – singular

bottle-nosed whales – grind

buffalo – gang; herd

butterflies – flight; wing

cats – clowder

cattle – drift; drove (when being driven); herd; mob

chicks – cletch; clutch; brood; peep

choughs – clattering

colts – rag; rake

coots – covert

crows – murder

cubs – litter

curs – cowardness

deer – brace (two); leash (three)

dogs – brace (two); leash (three); pack

dolphins – herd; pod; school

donkeys – herd; pace

doves – dole (or dule)

ducks – paddling (on water); raft (on water)

dunlins – fling (in flight)

elephants – herd

elk – gang

falcons – cast (a pair released after game)

ferrets – business

finches – charm; chirm

fish – run (moving upstream for spawning); school; shoal

foxes – earth; leash (three); skulk

fowl – plump; skein (in flight); trip

frogs – knot

fur seals – harem (belonging to one male)

geese – gaggle; skein (in flight); wedge (in V formation in flight)

giraffes – herd

gnats – cloud

goats – flock; trip

goldfinches – charm

gorillas – band

grouse – brace (two); covey; pack

hares – down; huske; leash (three)

hawks – cast (a pair released after game); kettle (riding a thermal); leash (three)

herons – siege (or sedge, or sege)

horses - harras; span (a team of two); string

hounds – brace (two); cry; kennel; leash (three); mute; sute

insects (flying) – cloud; swarm

jellyfish – smack

kangaroos – flock; mob; troop

kittens – kindle

lapwings – desert

larks – bevy; exaltation; exalting

leopards – leap

lions – pride

magpies – tidings

mallards – sord; sute

martens – richesse

moles – labour

monkeys – troop

mules – barren; span (a team of two); string

nightingales – watch

owls – parliament

oxen – yoke (two yoked together)

partridges – covey

peacocks – muster; ostentation

pheasants – bevy; bouquet (when flushed); nye

pigeons – kit

plovers – congregations; wing

ponies – string

porpoises – herd; pod; school

pups – litter

quails – bevy

rabbits – berry

racehorses – string

ravens – unkindness

rhinoceroses – crash

roes – bevy

rooks – building; parliament

ruffs – hill

seals – plump; spring

sheep – flock; fold; mob; wing

sheldrake – dropping

snipe – walk; wisp

sparrows – host

squirrels – dray (a nest)

starlings – murmuration

swans – wedge (in V formation in flight)

swine – drift; sounder (wild); trip (tame)

teal – spring; string

toads – knot

trout – hover

turkeys – rafter

vipers – nest

waterfowl – bunch; knob (less than 30); raft (on water)

whales – gam; herd; plump; pod

wolves – pack; rout

woodcocks – fall

woodpeckers – descension
Source: Macquari Dictionary https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/view/resource/4/#:~:text=magpies%20%E2%80%93%20tidings,monkeys%20%E2%80%93%20troop

 

[dazza65]

What’s a group of magpies called?

Too bad we’re not crows.... a murder of magpies sounds ominous....

Parliament or Tiding

Yeah a parliament of magpies not as intimidating eh.