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gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 12 4:50 pm Post subject: Larsen Traps.
We are having a real problem with rooks going into the hen house,through the pop hole, and stealing eggs.Lots of eggs. Someone mentioned using a Larsen Trap to catch the b*****s. Are these legal? Any other ideas to solve the problem?(Apart from shooting them).

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46207
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 12 4:53 pm Post subject:
try a mirror

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 12 5:07 pm Post subject: Re: Larsen Traps.

gardening-girl wrote:

Are these legal?

https://www.basc.org.uk/en/codes-of-practice/trapping-pest-birds.cfm

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 12 5:07 pm Post subject:
I have left Ma a message.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46207
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 12 5:23 pm Post subject:
corvids are clever ,i like em but mirror the proper distress cry on a gizmo gun

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 12 5:31 pm Post subject:
Are you sure they are rooks? It's not their usual diet.

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 12 6:00 pm Post subject:
Yes Catherine,Barrie saw one coming out. They are also taking duck eggs from another chap on the plot.We are finding egg shells all over the track.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46207
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 12 6:05 pm Post subject:
umm they will teach the children where dinner can be found non lethal war is a polite start

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 12 6:07 pm Post subject:
They are taking eggs from me, too. And last year I lost quite a lot of youngsters to them before I worked out what was going on.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46207
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 12 7:13 pm Post subject:
mirror means more to a raider than a local graannie was clever before she was ruthless

perlogalism

Joined: 27 Nov 2009
Posts: 440
Location: Near Welshpool

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 12 9:09 pm Post subject:
We had major problems with Magpies last year. Have invested in a Larsen trap a couple of months ago and not had one attack since! They know you know

Colin & Jan

Joined: 03 Mar 2006
Posts: 203
Location: Dover, Kent

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 12 7:07 am Post subject:

I'm up to 12 magpies and 4 carrion crows to date. 6 of the magpies and 3 of the crows have gone to other people for their traps.

Make sure the call bird in the trap is well fed and watered so that it feels well and subsequently calls loudly. They can become a real Judas if well looked after.

All of the corvid species will take eggs and chicks although I would rate the rook at the bottom of the 'pecking order'. Once they find a nest or source they will not stop until that source has gone.

In my opinion, control at this time a year is a must for wildlife management. My father who generally doesn't give much for this type of thing was incandescent with rage last year when the magpies systematically picked off the young blue tits a they were hatching from one of his boxes. We now have a larsen trap in his garden each spring.

SteveP

Joined: 23 Jan 2008
Posts: 155
Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 12 8:14 am Post subject:
My way to keep jackdaws and rooks away is to shoot one and hang it off the ground by one wing. After the initial racket from the over-flying birds they wont land near it. It is surprising how long it works (months) if the fox doesn't take the carcass. Doesn't seem to work for magpies though.

woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 12 8:25 am Post subject:

SteveP wrote:

My way to keep jackdaws and rooks away is to shoot one and hang it off the ground by one wing. After the initial racket from the over-flying birds they wont land near it. It is surprising how long it works (months) if the fox doesn't take the carcass.

Doesn't seem to work for magpies though.

That's the country way. My gran did it, my dad did it and I did it. I've never had a problem.

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 12 8:28 am Post subject:
Larsen trap now sourced,B is sitting silently ready to have a pop.

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