Magpies eating slugclear?!

Dear fellow gardeners,

The battle against the slugs and snails has begin again. I cleared the last of bushes away which was a damp shelter for them and put all I found in a bucket and killed them. I put slugclear granules around the most affected veggies but a few days ago I saw that magpies are picking up the white granules and eat them? Am I missing something here? Anyone else had this issue?

They got into my greenhouse in late winter and ripped open and devoured a bag of bird seed lol, they are smart and I would assume they wont eat anything that harms them, unlike me lol

Maybe eating it for the grit content, birds need grit to grind their food.

All birds need grit "to grind" their food??

I think you’re right. The pellets they picked were white and now I used blue ones which are left alone. But I wonder why they don’t get sick from slug killer?

I think you will find many birds don't need grit.

"ALL seed eating birds consume grit in one form or another regardless of whether they hull their seeds or not"

" pigeons and doves ingest seeds whole and seem to do fine without grit."

I think I will throw in parrots who hull the seeds themselves and owls!!