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  brian clegg March 14, 2012 at 3:26pm

  get a big plastic owl and stick it on a fence post next to trees. works a treat but the magpies might get noisy.

   
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  Rose Lennard March 14, 2012 at 3:28pm

  thanks Brian - magpies are noisy anyway, so worth a try!
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  brian clegg March 14, 2012 at 3:30pm

  bird of prey so everything keeps its head down. def works though.
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  Chris Auld March 14, 2012 at 6:26pm

  you could try shooting them with an air rifle.
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  Roy Parker March 14, 2012 at 6:58pm

  careful with the shooting remarks you be in trouble with the anti blood sports
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  David Cox March 14, 2012 at 9:09pm

  Its not a blood sport if your doing it to prevent damage to a crop - its only "sport" when its done for recreation.

  I lost ALL my Broad beans last year to them.... a true pest on a massive scale!

  If shooting them is not your cup of tea, consider those electronic sound devices which keep all birds away by emitting a high freq sound.
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  Rose Lennard March 14, 2012 at 9:25pm

  Having birds in the garden is a great pleasure for me so I don't want to do anything which scares them all off. In which case I guess I either have to put up with damage or go back to netting (since I don't have a gun and I think it might upset the neighbours anyway!). Shame I can't train the cats to be selective - though I think their hunting days are a distant memory now...
   
  David Cox said:

  If shooting them is not your cup of tea, consider those electronic sound devices which keep all birds away by emitting a high freq sound.
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  David Benson March 14, 2012 at 11:03pm

  anti,s are not that bothered about animals just the people that do it but thats another long heated argument and not for this forum
  
  roy parker said:

  careful with the shooting remarks you be in trouble with the anti blood sports
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  David Cox March 15, 2012 at 7:21pm

  A little optimistic (given pidgies are stupid in way that beats describing), but you could try bird feeders in a part of the garden far away from the beans? Or use a motion sensor to triger an electronic repelant... so it only repels when a bird is on the veg patch... the rest of the garden would be fine for them.
  
  Rose Lennard said:

  Having birds in the garden is a great pleasure for me so I don't want to do anything which scares them all off. In which case I guess I either have to put up with damage or go back to netting (since I don't have a gun and I think it might upset the neighbours anyway!). Shame I can't train the cats to be selective - though I think their hunting days are a distant memory now...
   
  David Cox said:

  If shooting them is not your cup of tea, consider those electronic sound devices which keep all birds away by emitting a high freq sound.