Handbags   (The sad, the bad and the ugly. Non-productive stuff here.)

Magpies are attracted to shiny things, I think jackdaws are too. Last year my wife put an ornament in the bedroom window facing SE. The ornament had crysals embedded in it,so shiny! Three sunny mornings on the run we were woken to the sound of a magpie fluttering at the window trying to get at it. She moved the ornament to a window at the back of the house, facing NE, no more disturbance from magpies!