Wing and a prayer...



Ok so I've recently spent a considerable amount of money and a lot more time and hard work in turning my garden from a mounded pile of dirt and weeds into a large green lawn. This went all to plan and due to the change in weather I could enjoy it and have to water it daily now 3 weeks in it looks bloody great. Now the garden is, much to my mothers liking, full of birds and wildlife for which I'm grateful. Now I'm no twitcher but I know my birds and can spot a pair of great tits anywhere. But its spring and. Birds are building nests and that means stealing my woodchippings but now a pair of magpies, and those of you that know the old rhyme 2 means Joy, are pulling chunks of my lawn to bits for the benefit of their nest. Ice googled this problem to see how to stop this and save my previous lawn, but nothing... Well I do now have flapping bags on sticks but this isn't working. I did find a bird scare at 99 quid but by the time it arrives nesting will be over, although I did find an air rifle at 30 and that I'm allowed to shoot them! So any bird lovers with a better idea now is the time to act or have two dead birds on your conscience.