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    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.

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    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.

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    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.
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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by 67hardtop View Post
    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
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    Bloody Magpies

    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!

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    Quote Originally Posted by strangy View Post
    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.Bloody Magpies

    Cheers Rod

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    Reminds me of the Lyrebird thats into photography..
    Fast forward to 2 min

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pickles2 View Post
    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.

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