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Swooping magpies
The Canberra Times
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8/3/2023
Swooping magpies are attacking early this year. One victim tells of his pain.
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00:00
(birds chirping)
00:02
Riding past the dam here in Tuggeranon
00:13
and this magpie hit me.
00:15
It's very early for the season.
00:17
He hit me hard, hit me once and got me on the ear,
00:20
drew blood on the ear, you know, where he attacked me.
00:23
It is early for them this season.
00:26
They don't seem to attack until a bit later.
00:30
(birds chirping)
00:32
It's frightening when you get hit.
00:41
It's a shock of getting hit initially.
00:44
If you know they're coming, it's all right,
00:46
but the problem is you never know they're coming.
00:48
They just sort of hit you.
00:49
Some of them hit once and that's it,
00:50
but others just keep coming and coming
00:52
and, you know, for hundreds of meters
00:54
and keep following you.
00:56
It's the adrenaline then once they hit you, for sure.
00:59
Yep.
01:00
(air whooshing)
01:03
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