Magpie swooping season

To:	canberrabirds <>
Subject:	Magpie swooping season
From:	Nathanael Coyne <>
Date:	Mon, 3 Oct 2016 07:48:53 +0000

Rangers didn't even get around to putting up the warning signs along a usual swooping cycleway nearby before the young birds fledged and moved on a week ago.

Nathanael Coyne

www.purecaffeine.com

Canberra, Australia
0431 698 580

On 3 October 2016 at 18:02, mariko buszynski <> wrote:

The magpie swooping season is here with a vengeance and I have seen some unusual activity
Old Canberra residents like myself always understood that the swooping season began around early September and finished around mid October. This year I was aggressively swooped by a magpie in late July, the same magpie swooped me on Sunday (2 October). Has global warming disoriented him?

Also, when I was riding my bicycle in Tuggeranong I was attacked by two magpies, they hit my bike helmet in rapid succession like dive bombers attacking Pearl Harbour. I have heard of cooperative breeding but not cooperative attacks like this.

Any thoughts from our magpie specialists?

Les Buszynski

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