Davidf I too get all those.
The meat eaters gather in what I call the front yard, neighbors call it back.
I leave meat on the bone too chicken or small bones cut with a saw.
Back yard fronts main road and is surrounded by bottle bush and other trees parrot family feeds there.
I do not feel guilt.
Some of these birds came back after not being seen for decades to feed on my trees.
Wish the flying rats had not.

Dear Belly,

You win some - lose some. We used to get double barred finches, but they have not been around since we started getting more of the bigger birds.

We have seen sulphur crested and black cockatoos. We have seen nearly 50 species around the house, but most are transient.

My house paddock is 1.5 acres, & heavily planted, so we feed a lot of birds, without effort. Since I decided I was not prepared to use enough poison to beat the fruit fly, the birds have a bonanza.

The lorikeets & the white cockatoos love the apples. They start when they are very small, leaving small cores hanging on the trees. The cockatoos also love the mulberrys, but do knock the trees around.

Just about everything gets into the peaches & apricots, but it is the crows that annoy me. They go for the almost ripe lemons, putting half a dozen holes in each fruit, before deciding it is not to their liking, & moving to the next.

The maggies like the mandarins, but at least they are happy eating them on the ground, after they have knocked one or 2 off the tree. About the only fruit we get is the Brazilian cherry. With the fruit hidden on the trunk of the older branches, deep in the bush, we sometimes find them before the birds.

The blue wrens deserted us after my lady cleared out the asparagus fern they nested in, but are back after we grew some more, & the pee wee, & the willy-wage tail both enjoy fighting the other one in the paddock bashers rear view mirror, but at slightly different times of year.

Right now the silky oaks, [grevillea robusta] & lots of other grevilleas are in rampant flower so lots of various honey eaters, & lorikeets are squabbling around the place.

By leaving some areas of clover & an early spring weed unmown the pigeons are getting a good feed for a while, but the lorikeets do give them a hard time.

About 5% of the trees in the yard are bird plantings of things from the bush, that I have left to grow. If only I could get them to drop their seeds where I wanted trees, the percentage could be a lot higher.

Hasbeen while my fruit fly is not the huge problem yours is I do spray, its my only not organic action.
But the birds own one large plum tree and the other are under screens, given away to village kids and the birds.
Daidf I miss the finches, not here but in a rented home next village I fed them and watched ten turn to 30, neighbor trapped them! two great young girls told me about it on return from north coast fishing, and had set them free by my return.
Bigger birds stop them here but plenty of others pink and Grey Galahs sulper crested black and black with red chest cockatoos visited in session.
PS
A good gardener in my area should help control fruit fly, we are just to chance,slim, of controlling them.

Hasbeen:

...One sad feature of the magpie is how easily they are run-over by cars: Particularly on dusk.
I found that by driving at around 80km per hour gives them nearly 100% chance to clear the road before being hit. But also a short blast of the horn alerts them to the oncoming danger of the vehicle.
Not much chance all will comply to this necessity, but we can all individually play our part in their comfort.
I have also found over time, this is the optimum speed to avoid most collisions with kangaroos. A 400km trip at 80 vs 100 takes a very marginal extra time and is much worth leaving slightly earlier to achieve less slaughter of wild life, not to mention avoiding vehicle damage.

...Below is a great web site on magpies with an extract on their sexual anatomy (or lack of it)!

#Watching the World Wake Up: Magpies Part 1: The Basics#

Extract:

...Male magpies, like most male birds, don’t have penises. Most birds- male and female- have a single anal-genital opening called the cloaca, used for passing waste, ejaculating semen, and laying eggs. Magpies mate by presses cloacas together, which in order to accomplish the male must get his tail under the female’s

Did not know that diver Dan, thanks.
Around here it is ducks that get killed on roads.
Dancing together then diving one on other often in front of cars.
I use horn never got a bird.
But wallaby's and roos in scrub country tend to dash out right in front never nice.
Story in northern river paper this morning.
Keep in touch with my favorite fishing spot,seems a mug deliberately ran over a pair of ducks.
Killing one adult and lots of chicks.
Strange people.