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

[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.

[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.

[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

[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

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.