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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bun" data-source="post: 1203694" data-attributes="member: 51012">Ive seen magpies in larsen traps with dog biscuits for food and rank looking water, looking terrified and sufferering, and personally i dont think they have any effect on songbird population, they have been living along side songbirds long before man decided they were a pest...Speaking to someone the other day who said he doesnt get song thrushes in his garden because of magpies, i pointed out to him the nice big tub of slug pellets he just put down was more harmful then any magpies, so then he started on sparrowhawks instead..And another thing most people who moan about magpies taking songbirds normally own about half a dozen cats...</blockquote>