Birds pecking a hole in my milk delivery

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I get milk delivered. I used to get a 2 litre plastic bottle of milk, but then switched to two 1 litre cartons because I changed the type of milk I get.

Anyway, since Ive been getting the cartons Ive had a few incidents where magpies peck a big hole near the bottom of a carton and all the milk drains out!

How do people protect their milk deliveries from birds pecking them open?
 
My neighbour has a plastic box, and the milkman puts the milk under it. Aren't magpies clever tho? Could you leave them out a bowl ?
 
horusd said:
My neighbour has a plastic box, and the milkman puts the milk under it. Aren't magpies clever tho? Could you leave them out a bowl ?
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Ill look into a plastic box. Do you know where your neighbour got it?

The magpies are seriously smart!! I considered leaving them something more attractive than my milk alright but I dont want to attract more of the cheeky beggars!
 
The neighbour has an old one from Premier dairies. But I think any plastic box from Atlantic or Woodies would do the trick.
 
magpies and crows do it at my mams house in galway - she just uses an upside down plastic crate - fiver from woodies
 
We used to use an old upturned shopping basket.... the kind you get from Tesco
 
Years ago nearly every house had a box, crate or block of wood for the milk. The milkman always knew to cover it.
 
AlbacoreA said:
Years ago nearly every house had a box, crate or block of wood for the milk. The milkman always knew to cover it.
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I know - but that was when it was bottles, I didnt know the magpies had graduated into pecking through cartons!!
 
Just an update on this. I spoke to the milkman and apparently this is a common problem, the dairy provide covers for people this happens to - so this morning I came out to collect the milk and it was under a nice plastic dairy cover.
 
That's brilliant! Not that your milk was getting nicked on you by birds but I'd forgotten just how clever magpies are
 
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