I need some advice..
A Juvenile magpie found its way into our garden, god only knows how it wasn't spotted by one of our four cats or the neighbours cats. Its fully feathered and hasnt got the yellow 'beak edges' anymore but not quite ready to fly.
The parent bird was attacking the cats all morning so it must have been around then, we spotted it this afternoon.
We've searched for the nest but cant find it at all. Cant leave it around here as it would definately be found by a cat (or chicken for that matter)
I locked all our cats in & tried popping it in a box on top of the shed for a few hours, the parent birds found it but didnt feed it.
Then one of our cats got out and was on the shed roof about to get into the box, the only reason I noticed was that the adult birds were making a massive racket.
So.. what to feed it on? What to do? I've raised young birds before, but never a magpie.. If I could avoid this I would, I really dont want a semi tame magpie hanging around this area, but cant see I've any choice..
I gave it small worms, and a cat food/egg yolk/softened chicken pellet mix this evening. (it was hungry!)
Help