Sorry if this title has excited any adverse responses (PTSD, violent tendencies, uncontrolled weeping, etc...) but, in a bit of misleading advertising, I mean actual magpies.

Apart from once-a-week participation in 'DATrippers' for Friday's cryptic crossword purposes, and several fairly focused Whatsapps, Demonland is my only social media / forum participation. So this where I've come to share my experience today of a Spring phenomenon that's sprung up in Autumn: on my daily ride I was swooped by a magpie.

Climate change? Has anyone else experienced this out-of-season nastiness?

9 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Sorry if this title has excited any adverse responses (PTSD, violent tendencies, uncontrolled weeping, etc...) but, in a bit of misleading advertising, I mean actual magpies.

Apart from once-a-week participation in 'DATrippers' for Friday's cryptic crossword purposes, and several fairly focused Whatsapps, Demonland is my only social media / forum participation. So this where I've come to share my experience today of a Spring phenomenon that's sprung up in Autumn: on my daily ride I was swooped by a magpie.

Climate change? Has anyone else experienced this out-of-season nastiness?

Thanks for sharing, Timothy. I’m in the same boat. No socials.

Quite the opposite experience.

I’ve made friends with a magpie who waits for me most days. He sits on my letterbox.

People walk by, he watches them the whole time way and lets them get within a meter of him.

I assume he’s being fed by a neighbor, he’s overly friendly.

Hope he keeps eating grubs I’ve found in my garden.

21 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

Hope he keeps eating grubs I’ve found in my garden.

Aren't they clever how they find stuff in the ground. I've got a family broadly resident on my nature strip doing this, providing passing entertainment.

So I'm fairly 'simpatico' with the breed, which makes the swoopers that much harder to take ('Aren't I a nice guy guys?')

My local park has signs up warning of swooping magpies - I did think this was much earlier in the year than normal. I had to go home and get my slingshot.

24 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Aren't they clever how they find stuff in the ground. I've got a family broadly resident on my nature strip doing this, providing passing entertainment.

So I'm fairly 'simpatico' with the breed, which makes the swoopers that much harder to take ('Aren't I a nice guy guys?')

They sure are, I figure if I’m nice to him.. he won’t swoop me..

I might find myself unstuck one day by this thought process if he betrays me, though.

I’ll let you know if that happens! 😂

14 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

My local park has signs up warning of swooping magpies - I did think this was much earlier in the year than normal. I had to go home and get my slingshot.

That you, Ethan?

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1 minute ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

That you, Ethan?

Not to the face. But I couldn’t find a rock one day so I had to improvise. I took the inside of a pen out so it was just the ballpoint tip and the ink cylinder and loaded that in. That ended up through my finger and got stuck in the bone.