Fill up a spray bottle with water and squirt it at them they hate that, they can be sooooo naughty.
oh! And just remember to wear a hat when it’s breeding season they’ll remember you as the bitch that squirted us with water.🤣🤣
 
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Closing your blinds or curtains helps reduce transparency. Adding awnings or hanging exterior mesh screens can also reduce visibility. Predator decoys, like owl or hawk statues can work if repositioned often to keep birds on edge.
 
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hello Pam,
I have never been attacked by a magpie ...even when I live right near where they nest.
I don't know why but what ever the reason I thank whoever gave it to me.
now MY SUGGESTION IS... GO TO BUNNING AND FIND AN OWL. POSSIBLY CALLED A "BOBBLE \HEAD... ABOUT 30,00 DOLLARS THEN PUT IT OUTSIDE THE DDOR BUT NEAR IT. ... THEY HAVE A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM AND YOU CAN BUY A PIECE OF PIPE AND SO LIQUID NAILS WITH A DISPENSER AND GLUE IT ON TO THR PIPR.
Here is a link to the owls for sale at Bunnings .... I use one to keep the parrots OFF MY TOMATO PLANTS.


Clickon the link
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Rob Plumber will definitely need new door after that unless you just intend waving it at them . LOL I’m curios to why they would be pecking at screen .? We have quite a few where I live but they just fly down for food . Is there some insect delicacy they fancy on the door . Sorry I don’t have any solution .
I don't know but I think they are after food. I left the door open one day and came back to find one in my lounge!
 
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YES.. Dog wire also at Bunnings It is good but magpie have a very distructive beak. but try it ... This is a good suggestion from fishermn.
Dog wire is a scteen door gauge for stopping doggies and it works good. too
Thanks for that - I will have a look
 
Have you tried citronella oil. If you rub the citronella oil over the fly screen the odor from the oil should deter the magpies and anything else that might target your fly screens. The magpies can see their reflection in your window and they trying to get at the bird in your window. Cheers.
 
Buy a roll of silver and iridescent insect and bird deterrent foil ribbon and attach is to your screen. Available at hardware stores. I have it sticky taped to my glass sliding door to deter the tap-tap bird, Pewee or Magpie Lark. Works like a charm.
 
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Before I moved housed we had a family of Magpies. Before the family arrived the female used to pick holes in the Lite and Easy boxes , so whenever I heard it I would go to the door and tell it no (like you do with a dog) After a couple of times it stopped. When the Family came along , the babies started to peck at the boxes and Mother magpie stopped them by pushing them over., and they didn't do it again.. Amazing.
 
Buy a roll of silver and iridescent insect and bird deterrent foil ribbon and attach is to your screen. Available at hardware stores. I have it sticky taped to my glass sliding door to deter the tap-tap bird, Pewee or Magpie Lark. Works like a charm.
Man! those PeeWees just go on and on and on ...so I get a photo of a cat an stick it to the glass for a few months then they give up
 
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