Bloody Magpies

[67hardtop]

So today there's a little bit of commotion out in my back yard. A little more than normal. I put my old bread out for the birds in the mornings. I let snoopy out and wow. Lots of racket. So i go out for a squiz. 2nd mistake. 1st mistake was letting snoopy out to do his business. The maggies are swooping on snoopy. He just managed to dodge them. 3rd mistake was thinking they wont swoop a big fella like me. Yeah right. Seems there's a juvenile maggie in my yard that cant fly properly yet and mummy and daddy are making it known. So im bleeding from a rather large gouge in my head. Went and stemmed the flow, put a hat on, weilding the rake i rescue snoopy. Thats when i noticed the juvenile maggie. So with rake in hand swaying it above my head, swooping maggies, i managed to shoo the bub under a thorny bush i have in the yard so snoopy dosent kill it, coz he will kill it if he sees it. Luckily his vision isn't so good anymore. So ive saved the bub from certain death, im still bleeding a bit, and now im going to be more watchful when snoopy goes out next time. Bloody hurts when those maggies slam into ur head. I seen stars for a moment. BLOODY MAGPIES. Go breed somewhere else [emoji35] [emoji35] [emoji35]

[timax]

Pain aside , thats pretty funny.
So how is the baby now?
Magpies are pretty amazing birds.
They will swoop on one person every day but not another. They know everything about every person /dog , whatever in the area they live. What time they feed the dog , how much food the dog spills out of the bowl , which ones cant see too well etc etc.
They usually don't attack someone who feeds them so it will be interesting to see how this one plays out.

[123rover50]

We have a dozen or so meet here at feeding time and have a bit of territory fighting.
No problem to us. Eat from our hand while sitting on ones knee.[smilebigeye]

[67hardtop]

Just been out back again. Baby looks to have finally managed to actually fly now and seems to be back in its tree. I can see mum n dad and another bird so it must be the family back together. They live in a big tree that is 3 houses away from me. Hopefully its over now...

[timax]

My David Attenborough advice would be to take a bit of your dogs food (not bread) out there and make sure mum and dad see you do it.
Hopefully they will give you the thumbs up and not want to fight you again.

[67hardtop]

Little bugger is still here. Just see him in the top corner of the pic. Seems they had 2 young this year coz i heard the other young one up in the tree squalking at mum n dad too. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181007/76d33b145b2f6f14a6a319eaff20a75b.jpg

[67hardtop]

The magpie chic is no more. It seems that while I was asleep on the couch, during the great race, snoopy did the nature thing and dispatched it. I know coz he brought it inside and put it at my feet to show me. Ewww... Poor little bugger. I wanted to save the little thing but it seems jack russel instinct beat me to it. I cant believe a dog thats almost blind and nearly deaf could still do that.

I spose ill get the negative responses now but it was beyond my control. Im not gonna tie up my ageing dog for any ones or natures protection in His yard!

Cheers Rod [emoji24][emoji24]

[scarry]

On another note,the Kookaburras are back out the front in the hole in the ants nest,about 20ft up in an old ironbark.
We can hear the chicks in the nest calling,when the parents arrive with food.

On Friday i saw one of the adults dive bomb the postie,and nearly knock him off his bike[bigsad]

Not much i can do about it,its just a hazard anyone on a bike has to beware of.

[67hardtop]

Didnt know kookaburras dive bombed

[deano2469]

Mate just feed em, throw a few crusts or a bit of mince out, make sure they all see you and after a few times your probs should be over. I did it now they eat from my hand occasionally.

[Marty90]

If you feed magpies, apparently they won't swoop you. I had a client who loved to feed them but it ****ed off the neighbours because they would swoop them. Went there one morning and found her crying. Someone had dispatched six magpies and left them in her backyard.

[RANDLOVER]

Magpies are clever enough to recognise people, I feed a couple by knocking out the cat's left over mince or spilt crunchies, next to the post box and the magpies flies down to see me and what I've left for them.

Actually pigeons can also recognise people down to facial features, I saw a experiment in England, where a person wearing a blue coat would feed them, and another wearing a red coat would chase them, but when they swapped coats the pigeons knew the difference between the "good" and "bad" person.

[trout1105]

My BIL has been feeding his magpies for years now and in the afternood dozens of them appear from nowhere and NONE of them have ever swooped on anyone.

[67hardtop]

Ive been feeding the birds in my backyard for 5 yrs, including those magpies and several other magpies and this is the first time ive ever been swooped at. It really bloody hurts when they hit u. It happened last Saturday and the side of my head still hurts where it hit me. My skin still has scabs on the wound. A friend said that I should have had stitches in the wound. I still feed the birds in my back yard including the same magpies. They still eat my food and they r still bringing the other young bird with them. I just accept its natural 4 them to protect their young. I would do the same for my children. I spose if I could speak magpie they would have known I was trying to protect their little one but alas snoopy did what came naturally to him and when he finally seen it he killed it.

Cheers Rod

[trout1105]

Ive been feeding the birds in my backyard for 5 yrs, including those magpies and several other magpies and this is the first time ive ever been swooped at. It really bloody hurts when they hit u. It happened last Saturday and the side of my head still hurts where it hit me. My skin still has scabs on the wound. A friend said that I should have had stitches in the wound. I still feed the birds in my back yard including the same magpies. They still eat my food and they r still bringing the other young bird with them. I just accept its natural 4 them to protect their young. I would do the same for my children. I spose if I could speak magpie they would have known I was trying to protect their little one but alas snoopy did what came naturally to him and when he finally seen it he killed it.

Cheers Rod

Snoopy was only doing his job, Looking after you.
He most likely saw the bird nail you and sorted the little bugger out for you.
GO Snoopy[thumbsupbig]

[strangy]

Probably should get the wound checked.
I have a few Magpies come to see me most mornings and evenings at the moment.
2 of the cheeky ones will follow me inside and tap their beak for a treat.
One of them mimic a dog barking, child crying and says hello.
A bit unnerving at first having them run up to me, but I seem to accepted by them and they seem to like my company.
I had one bring me a cricket yesterday!

[67hardtop]

Probably should get the wound checked.
I have a few Magpies come to see me most mornings and evenings at the moment.
2 of the cheeky ones will follow me inside and tap their beak for a treat.
One of them mimic a dog barking, child crying and says hello.
A bit unnerving at first having them run up to me, but I seem to accepted by them and they seem to like my company.
I had one bring me a cricket yesterday!Hope u were hungry...lol. I remember a friend of mine when i was a kid down in Esperance, who had a magpie as a pet. Followed him everywhere like a dog. Could say hello and make noises like cats n dogs sometimes. Was cool as a kid to see that.[emoji12]

Cheers Rod

[timax]

Reminds me of the Lyrebird thats into photography..
Fast forward to 2 min
https://youtu.be/VjE0Kdfos4Y

[Pickles2]

I always have a laugh to myself when I read the "furore" in the press or see on TV where swooping maggies are causing drama, posties refusing to go down streets, etc etc.
Jeez, I can't believe it. When I was going to school in Toowoomba many many years ago, I rode my bike to get there, probably 7 or 8klms, no big deal. However, to get from Drayton where I lived, to Harristown, I had to ride along Anzac Ave, which in those days was a long open stretch, with a large number of gum trees a 100 meters or so away. The maggies would see us from those trees, we could see them coming/swooping at us. We all expected it, in fact we liked it, we used to swing our school bags around our heads, but they still had a go,..most of us wore Akubra style hats, never worried us at all,...all good fun,..it was a daily occurance! I'm sure most of you have been "swooped" at some time or other?
Pickles.

[LRJim]

I always have a laugh to myself when I read the "furore" in the press or see on TV where swooping maggies are causing drama, posties refusing to go down streets, etc etc.
Jeez, I can't believe it. When I was going to school in Toowoomba many many years ago, I rode my bike to get there, probably 7 or 8klms, no big deal. However, to get from Drayton where I lived, to Harristown, I had to ride along Anzac Ave, which in those days was a long open stretch, with a large number of gum trees a 100 meters or so away. The maggies would see us from those trees, we could see them coming/swooping at us. We all expected it, in fact we liked it, we used to swing our school bags around our heads, but they still had a go,..most of us wore Akubra style hats, never worried us at all,...all good fun,..it was a daily occurance! I'm sure most of you have been "swooped" at some time or other?
Pickles.Plenty of times it's hilarious, I have a rooster whos a fighting breed having him attack you is scary, his spurs are about 3 inches long. Back in primary school I remember a Maggie swooped this kid to get some food out of his hand, poor kid ended up with a big hole in the palm of his hand. My wife hand feeds them, now we have a horde of them follow us around the paddocks. They almost land on us but they are still a bit freaked out.