Hey Icey, still fighting the good fight?
Nah, mellowed with age, like a good wine.
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Hey Craze, Diggers supported Sydney? That’s terrible.
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Say what???
Getting the thread back on topic. Listen to the poor little kid, thinking his Daddy is gonna get killed by plovers. 
George, you would be weird too if you were traumatised by birds like I’ve been. 
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I know, can’t blame him really. How have you been, Vincent?
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Good thanks, Craze, been avoiding ferocious birds as well as I can. It’s sort of at the stage where they look at you as you walk past. Soon it will be flap flap flap past our ear holes, or smack on the back of our heads.
Literally just got swooped then (I’m still walking now). No idea what it was as I never saw it coming. Fark you birds
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Oh wow it’s happening!!! 
Find a phone box SMJ.
Thanks for the literal “heads up”. My local magpie used to have a facebook page, stories of teenagers coming home half baked at midnight and getting swooped. He usually gets me once a year then I realise it’s spring(ish). After that I give him the face off where he flies closer but won’t attack until my back is turned. Defending their territory my ■■■■.
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I did a kookaburra rescue today. Not sure what was wrong with the poor guy, he’d just parked himself in the middle of someone’s patio and wouldn’t budge even with their dog sniffing him. Very dazed and lethargic, i could walk right up to him and pick him up in my hands. Maybe a concussion from flying into a window or something, or some prick’s been laying rodent baits and he ate a poisoned mouse? Regardless, most likely it was the result of an (indirect) human attack on a bird…
#teambird
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Happened again on my walk back! Same area! I didn’t see it again but it took a good chunk out of the top of my head this time so that was nice.
Fark you birds. Next time I’m bringing protection.
#teamcricketbat
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I grew up in a two-storey house, with wall to ceiling windows along the front, on both storeys. The house faced south and looked out over the Dandenongs (ie. had a beautiful reflection of hills and open sky on the windows).
Plenty of birds came a cropper on those windows (probably a couple a month) and we’d have to fish them out of the garden. Mainly blackbirds and pigeons. Occasionally a honeyeater.
Sometimes they were only groggy and dazed and would recover. Mainly they didn’t.
It’d scare the crap out of you when it happened…
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Some people just seem to invite attacks. Probably a close correlation with those who can’t open a door without letting the cat in or out. They sense fear.
Maggies in particular can recognise faces, have a long memory, and teach their kids what they learn.
If you live in an area where there’s a few people who have a go at birds, let dogs chase maggies, kids throw stuff at them etc, or even where people cut down a few nesting trees in breeding season, the magpies will remember. And thin a few years, all the local magpies will hate people and divebomb gleefully. It’s the same process just in reverse when you feed a couple of magpies on your deck, within months you’ll have a dozen of them scrounging around, and they’ll teach the chicks about you, and you’ll never have a problem with those magpies again.
Absolutely. Sunnies, cap, hoodie jacket, long stick.
The Maggies at my aunt’s place will land on her shoulder and eat mince from her hand.
Grandma also used to feed mince to the Magpies and Kookaburras at her place in Dromana.
Was quite amusing watching at ~9:00 every morning the Kookies would come down and wait for her, then as soon as they left the family of Maggies would fly in.
And I don’t know how much of this story is true, but apparently at Mt Evelyn footy ground the Kookaburras will let you pet them and are known to swipe food out of peoples hands.
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Never saw it coming because you were on your phone, ya boob.