05-01-2015, 11:04 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Curse you T5, I was coming to post that.
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05-01-2015, 11:06 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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I am clearly better at avoiding work than you are.
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05-01-2015, 11:08 AM
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#23
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by Table 5
I am clearly better at avoiding work than you are.
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Oh yeah? Big words during tax season, lets see how you stack up the rest of the year!
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05-01-2015, 11:13 AM
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Magpies and their young chirp incessantly every morning. And if you have a dog, they'll torment it (along with any other birds). They must be driven away.
Man up. Put a hat, gloves, and sunglasses on, and smash the nest to bits. If you want to be a real SOB, wait until eggs are laid, but before they've hatched, and then smash the nest. The magpies will recognize your yard as a Bad Place and not come back.
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05-01-2015, 11:16 AM
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First Line Centre
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Easy solution - rent out the house on AirBnB...
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05-01-2015, 11:21 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Easy solution - rent out the house on AirBnB...
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Your Magpie problem would be solved....although at the expense of many, many other problems.
It might just be easier to burn your house to the ground.
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05-01-2015, 11:25 AM
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary Alberta
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Originally Posted by Locke
Your Magpie problem would be solved....although at the expense of many, many other problems.
It might just be easier to burn your house to the ground.
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Not sure if this is too soon. But the house is like ten houses away from the two houses that burnt down in Erinwoods last week. Maybe they had magpies?
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05-01-2015, 11:55 AM
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I think you should make a giant sling shot, put yourself and family members in it, and then have someone pull it back to shoot you towards the nest. Sometimes spinning will help, or a light sabre, but that is your best bet.
Do it first before those angry birds make one of their own and shoot it at you and your housing structure.
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05-01-2015, 11:58 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Calgary
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Someone under the age of 18, a slingshot, and plausible deniability.
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05-01-2015, 11:59 AM
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Handsome B. Wonderful
Someone under the age of 18, a slingshot, and plausible deniability.
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This.
Try to get them to angle so that the missed shots are damaging your neighbors in any way.
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05-01-2015, 12:15 PM
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My neighbour uses those big rat traps they sell at Canadian tire. Just screw them to a tree and bait with chicken. They cannot resist chicken. If you would prefer to make up with them rather than kill them ,you could offer them breadcrumbs soaked in chicken gravy and vodka. To thank you for the free meal the magpies will offer you a couple hours of pure comedy. 
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05-01-2015, 01:01 PM
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I would have just left them. We got magpies in the area and every once and a while they swing by. When the dog is in the back yard it almost seems like they play (land in different corners of the yard and my dog playfully runs back and forth).
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05-01-2015, 01:02 PM
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You don't get rid of magpies. You enjoy the antics of this incredibly beautiful, mischievous and intelligent bird. A pox on you, sir!
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05-01-2015, 01:24 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary Alberta
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Thanks for all the great ideas. Internet you did not let me down today. I'm hoping to use the AirBnb idea and some how attend the party and collect the insurance for a new house for my mom. Win Win.
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05-01-2015, 01:28 PM
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Just wait it out for this season. Next spring, they'll probably try to build a nest in the same tree again. If you make a lot of noise or squirt them with the garden hose they'll leave off and go build their nest in another tree. Like your neighbour's.
We had this happen a couple of years back. The parents were kind of aggro when the chicks were small, but they eased off by the time the chicks were flying. Papa bird would sit in the tree glaring at us through the window. Like he thought we wanted to eat his precious babies or something. Sometimes if he caught us watching him, he would fake-swoop the window we were watching from.
The next spring, I chased them off during the nest building phase and they haven't been back since.
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05-01-2015, 01:29 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Winebar Kensington
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Originally Posted by peter12
You don't get rid of magpies. You enjoy the antics of this incredibly beautiful, mischievous and intelligent bird. A pox on you, sir!
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You probably like House Sparrows too!
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05-01-2015, 01:32 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I have had great success with a paintball gun. Non-lethal, but they bugger off pretty quickly.
Then all his Magpie buddies will make fun of his pink marking.
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05-01-2015, 01:37 PM
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The paintball gun sounds great. Just replace the raptor below with a magpie:
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05-01-2015, 02:38 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Vernon, BC
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Just chop down the tree! problem solved.
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