Species that have swooped me

[Elizabeth Keen <>]

I've been swooped by the Grey Shrike-thrush that nests annually in our shed, when I was inside the shed having a look at the chicks. The parent came from outside at high speed, unchecked by the weld-mesh window, and straight at my head with loud scolding noises. 

Libby Keen

Harold's Cross

Via Braidwood

On 31 Dec 2014, at 8:44 pm, sandra henderson <> wrote:

yes, I've also been attacked by many of those mentioned (brown goshawk and grey butcherbird stand out for me), and can add white-browed woodswallows - when there were numbers of them nesting at Namadgi VC a couple of years ago they were not happy when anyone approached their nests, and flew very low over my head. And swans - not  "swooped" but definitely aggressive when with young - "charged" is more accurate !

sandra h

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Ace Frawley <m("gmail.com","frawley.matthew");" target="_blank">> wrote:

I was swooped by a Noisy Friarbird today as I paused to watch it feeding its young in the nest.  This is the first time I've been swooped by this species, which got me thinking of all those which have.  I'm sure others will have more, but for me, so far, this is the list of birds that I can remember swooping me:

Australian Magpie

Masked Lapwing

Brown  Goshawk

Pied Currawong

Dusky Woodswallow

Red Wattlebird

Noisy Friarbird

Noisy Miner

I would be interested in hearing what encounters others have had.