What is the answer? Let’s ask the RSPB
I received this from a reader today
I am totally dismayed and horrifield by what has happened and continues to happen in my surrounding area.
5 years ago I used to sit in my sunlounge watching and listening to the beautiful small birds in my garden and round about. Unfortunately a pair of Magpies moved into a large tree a couple of doors away.
To begin with the other birds outnumbered them and managed although attacked to raise some youngsters.
The situation today is unbearable and I feel so helpless, we are inundated with Magpies and they have just about distroyed the small bird population.






on July 13th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Hello, thanks for getting in touch. Do the magpies fly into the hedge? I suppose they do. I know they can cause a lot of carnage in a hedge as they fly along and visit all the nests taking / destroying the eggs, and therefore destroying the next generation of songbirds
Please visit the Songbird Survival Website. they are trying to save songbirds with science and are doing so much to help our garden birds. Just type in songbird survival