Successfully escaped a swooping magpie while riding. The sound of its angry beak snapping as it missed by mere millimetres 😭

Reckon people in their cars were having a good old chuckle at me pedalling head down, swerving side to side (as if that helps) yelling FARRRRK OFFFFFFF

#Magpie #SwoopingSeason #SwoopSeason #Cycling #Bicycle #Straya

I was sitting at the train station minding my own business when I saw a bird gliding down towards me from a tree on the left. I'm not afraid of birds, and I instinctively knew this one wasn't out for blood.

"Give me food... Or else." 

#Australia #Birds #Magpies #BirdsOfMastodon #SwoopingSeason

Magpie swooping season has been busy. But on this morning’s bike ride the magpies I saw were busy chasing a noisy mynah. Then just when I thought I’d escaped, I was swooped - by a mob of ebullient rainbow lorikeets, high on their supply of bottlebrush nectar.

#birdlife #bikelife #swoopingseason

Magpie swooping season has been busy. But on this morning’s bike ride the magpies I saw were busy chasing a noisy miner. Then just when I thought I’d escaped, I was swooped - by a mob of ebullient rainbow lorikeets, high on their supply of bottlebrush nectar.

#birdlife #bikelife #swoopingseason https://www.magpiealert.com/Swooping-Magpie-Attack-Statistics.php

The magpies have started singing at night, which means they're building their nests...

#Australia #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #RegionalAustralia #birds #magpies #SwoopingSeason #soon

Looks like a particularly aggressive magpie out on the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail near Pattison Street in Moonee Ponds.

See more at this great website: https://www.magpiealert.com/

#Australia #SwoopingSeason #Melbourne #Cycling #MelbourneCycling