Magpie and Grey Crow Trapping Ireland. 

Way too many magpies and grey crows around, if everyone did their bit. A healthy population is fine but the numbers are crazy at present 👍

@@vk_6915 iv been getting a few with the airgun latley also noticed a lot of jays around this year to

Minktrappingpaddy Alright bud, just getting going now, all good with you?👍

@@vk_6915 Hey all fine here lad. Not doing a whole lot of late. Not on RU-vid much these days. Just happened to have a look yesterday, and spotted your vid. You getting around much with all these restrictions? You bother with the fishin at all?

Minktrappingpaddy I’m obsessed with tench fishing, but I do most mine in Roscommon and Leitrim. So can’t even get out for that. I’m back to work 3 days as week now, so plenty to be messing at on the others.

@@vk_6915 more into the trout and salmon myself. You must have lots of salmon water down your way?

Minktrappingpaddy yeah plenty of trout and salmon waters. I do a bit of sea trout fishing from the beaches now and then though

Greycrow numbers are massive in the west of Ireland. Mags aren’t as bad but still not great as there aren’t many trapping them. I seen a male hen harrier last week very close to me. I do believe that all the work I put in has helped the hen harrier, as their very vulnerable being ground nesting birds. I used to think the fox was the biggest problem in my area. After the human, it’s corvids and mink.

Good stuff, a lot of the time greys will go in to msgs, so you might get lucky 👍 Thanks!

Any chance of more videos like this?

@@cathalhoward6798 it won’t be until the spring when the greys and mags are getting paired up and territorial for nesting. I’m at the mink trapping at the moment. Have a new video up last week. Caught another yesterday but will be putting down a new line next week, so should see a bit of action with the mink.

@@cathalhoward6798 I have another video on Larsen trapping on my channel that you can check out.

Evil devil......

Quavo Huncho that’s bad bud, get one of these traps going! Those greycrows will do the same. They need controlling 👍

What’s Emglish?

@@vk_6915 Typo - Old age thing

😂😂

beaucoup de traduction ; laisse a désirez... ou le traducteur ni connait rien et invente pour complétez.

@@clambroth1923 It's more than old age mate. But nice to see your lobotomy was a complete success.

They’re made by a guy for the NARGC. I’m not sure if you can buy them commercially. They are a good trap, handy to transport too👍

Thanks 👍

If you look just inside each compartment, you’ll see a bar running across the length of the entrance but a little bit inside. The crow/mag when enters the trap will automatically perch on this bar(trigger). The weight of the bird pushed it down, firing the door down as there’s an upright length of bar holding the trap door up. Hope this comes across clear enough.

The bar is set about 6 inches back from the trap door if you look.

@@vk_6915 Thanks for that! I have a round trap but the birds keep coming in and out without activating the gate! Any advice?

@@CDR390 all I can say, is set it as light as you can, hair trigger style. Or else what I have seen with a new trap I had was where the part that holds the door up has a little bit of a burr on it from where it was cut when making it, so it’ll never release the door to shut. I rubbed it with an angle grinder and made it smooth and the door shuts very fast now.

I trap them as the numbers are way too high in the area. They predate on birds eggs and after a couple of springs trapping the difference is amazing. All the land around me sheep farms, if a sheep ends up on their back and can’t get up again(which can be very common) the greycrows and magpies will peck the eyes out of the sheep. There is only one outcome when that happens.

@@vk_6915The creator of heaven and earth commands all creation to BE fruitful and multiply. Who is anyone to take a life of another being!!??. Have mercy and relocate them

@@wezzagustus4868 I understand your thoughts but I won’t relocate them. Our government want us the actively cull them.

@@vk_6915 fuck government! Be governed by consciousnce. Did the creator not command all of creation to BE fruitful and multiply? Who is anyone to take the life of another being? Where is compassion and empathy? Humane catch and release?

@@wezzagustus4868 why do people search and watch videos that their totally against?? It’s a bit stupid. No need to reply 👍

Cheers fella, just tipping away at it in my area, they just keep coming though.

@@vk_6915 keep it up, not enough lads doing it. What part of the country are you?

@@nialllyons94 I’m in the northwest bud. Mink trapping is slow with all the water and the fecking restrictions that were in place

Murder is good work?

@@wezzagustus4868 yes, when you factor in the dozens of songbird/ground nesting bird clutches that will survive now, definitely good work. Conservationists usually fall into 2 groups: killers or huggers. Youre clearly a hugger but unfortunately its the killers that achieve the most

Not sure I understand what you mean bud?

Rats cats gray crows stoats also destroys the small bird population but you decide to kill the smartest bird out their shoot them May be a more human way to call the. How would you like to be trapped in a cage for a couple off days and then get your head chopped off for a couple off penny a bounty you call it

@@vincentscannell4866 the trap is checked twice a day, I trap greycrows and mags in those Larsen traps. They are never more then 12 hrs in them, probably more like 8 hrs. There is only a bounty on mink in Ireland. No one does it for a bounty. For your information, stoats are protected by law. I have no rats around me because I keep the place tidy. Magpies are as bad as greys in their actions even worse on songbirds. Actually a swift blow to the back of the head is enough, no need to be chopping heads off. You are being a bit over the top I think. If everyone done their part we’d have a good balance.

Dont think you know what your talking about Vincent. Magpies are lethal predators to songbird nests in spring/summer. Theyre notoriously hard to shoot in high numbers so the larsen traps allows us to knock the numbers far more effectively, reducing nest predation. Go to any Dublin suburb if you wanto see the impact uncontrolled magpies and greycrows have. Very few songbirds and countless corvids. Coincidance maybe?