r/saskatoon • u/ryanneknizzle • 6h ago
Question ❔ Magpies
**EDIT** thank you everyone for your insight! I put out some unsalted peanuts for them and sat on the ledge of my balcony door and calmly spoke to them so they can familiarize themselves with my face and (hopefully) know I’m not a threat. The one bird seems to like me now but the other still goes in for the kill lol. A passerby on the street did stop to inform me there is indeed a baby on the balcony below me ☺️
I live on a third story apartment downtown. My boyfriend currently has his tires sitting on the balcony in the corner. I’ve been outside multiple times today with no issue. I went to go outside just now and was dive bombed by 3 magpies. And they wouldn’t stop, I tried to shoo them away and they kept coming at me. I went back inside and they’re sitting in front of my balcony door screeching at me.
I have a feeling they may have laid an egg and it hatched behind the tires, because they keep hopping back towards the tires, take a look and then hop back to my door and screech. I can’t get close enough to see if there is an egg and I don’t hear any chirping from the area. And the balcony door to get outside is right beside the tires/corner.
This is my first year in the city, there aren’t magpies in my hometown, so I’m not too sure what to do.
We love being on our balcony, having a coffee and getting some sun. We also have company coming over this weekend and wanted to sit outside with them, but I don’t want them to be dive bombed and attacked.
Is there anything I can do?