Any way we can stop magpies coming into our garden, we had 5 bluetit fledglings but we are down to two because a Magpie is taking them away? Any tips to save these last two? It's our first family in our bird box.
Chantelle (and whoever else found this forum thread via a search),
we've the same problem! The magpies possibly cleared out the whole nest! Seen them fly off with two while the brave parents tried to stop them! Harrowing to say the least!
Seems there more Corvids around generally in recent years but I suspect they conspicious by comparison with the huge depletion in the population of smaller birds here in the UK.
As no comment here in the last 5 years since the above post I'll continue looking elsewhere to see if there any good advice on how to deal with these tyrants!