2012 Magpie Season
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2012 Magpie Season
Postby Alycat » Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:22 am
Think he has moved about 50 metres towards Windsor...
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby TimW » Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:48 am
He is a bastard. got me many times in the past, i will continue to take the detour around the back onto the bridge when next out that way.
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby Alycat » Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:27 am
Didn't ride all last week, bad cold, so thought a nice flat 60k, and I wanted to stop at the Rouse Hill bike shop... and it is only July!TimW wrote:That'll serve you right for straying off the M7 Cycleway Ken
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby SmellyTofu » Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:36 pm
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby TimW » Wed Aug 01, 2012 3:56 pm
Alycat wrote:Didn't ride all last week, bad cold, so thought a nice flat 60k, and I wanted to stop at the Rouse Hill bike shop... and it is only July!TimW wrote:That'll serve you right for straying off the M7 Cycleway Ken
Took a ride out there myself today , and successfully dodged the little bugger!
http://app.strava.com/rides/15808663
great day for it.Tim
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby Alycat » Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:09 pm
Dodged? I am not interested in hearing how you dodged the problem, I want to hear how you have eliminated the problem.TimW wrote:Took a ride out there myself today , and successfully dodged the little bugger!
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby TimW » Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:17 pm
comon mate. on a forum such as this you are supposed to appreciate the birds and the bee's, love nature, be a part of critical mass,hate motorists and ute drivers,and be critical of all in power.Leave the poor misguided and misunderstood Magpie alone lolAlycat wrote:Dodged? I am not interested in hearing how you dodged the problem, I want to hear how you have eliminated the problem.TimW wrote:Took a ride out there myself today , and successfully dodged the little bugger!
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby Alycat » Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:29 pm
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby TimW » Wed Aug 01, 2012 6:01 pm
What "Heaven"?Alycat wrote:I thought long and hard before posting, I mentioned eliminating the "problem" not the magpie For all I know you might have thought about relocating him to a better home
might cya out there tomorrow Ken , Not heaven lol....the M7
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:20 pm
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:11 pm
Naaah, they do what all good parents do, just with more gusto than sometimes necessary.wurtulla wabbit wrote:Magpies=vermin !
My locals all love me and bring their bubs to say G'Day. They eat outta my hands too. Haven't been swooped in a 5km radius of the house in yonks.
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby SmellyTofu » Thu Aug 02, 2012 3:08 am
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby wurtulla wabbit » Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:31 am
One swooped my 9yr old last year, drew blood, need to shoot or poison that bastard of a thing.Mulger bill wrote:Naaah, they do what all good parents do, just with more gusto than sometimes necessary.wurtulla wabbit wrote:Magpies=vermin !
My locals all love me and bring their bubs to say G'Day. They eat outta my hands too. Haven't been swooped in a 5km radius of the house in yonks.
He was riding along a path, not in it's nest and certainly minding his own business.
Really upset and scared him.
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby gorilla monsoon » Thu Aug 02, 2012 12:33 pm
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby RonK » Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:17 pm
Yes, I guess it would be a badge of honor at show'n'tell to remove his eye patch and show the empty socket where his eye used to be.gorilla monsoon wrote:Oh boo-hoo! It's all part of the growing-up process isn't it? A bit of blood here, a scratch and scrape there......your kid hasn't live until he's put a drill through the back of his hand or shot himself in the leg with a nail gun. Magpie strike is nothing except a badge of honour for show and tell at school.
There was a notorious bird in my area that regularly attacked the eyes. Several cyclists received serious eye injuries, a bit more than a little scratch and a bit of blood.
In recent years a young child was killed when he ran onto the road whilst trying to evade a magpie attack, but I guess it must have been his own fault for entering magpie territory.
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby wurtulla wabbit » Thu Aug 02, 2012 2:09 pm
You sir, are a knob ! And if you indeed drilled through the back of your hand and shot yourself with a nail gun, karma seems to be dealing you a fine hand that you obviously deservedgorilla monsoon wrote:Oh boo-hoo! It's all part of the growing-up process isn't it? A bit of blood here, a scratch and scrape there......your kid hasn't live until he's put a drill through the back of his hand or shot himself in the leg with a nail gun. Magpie strike is nothing except a badge of honour for show and tell at school.
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby gorilla monsoon » Thu Aug 02, 2012 3:43 pm
And a knob? I've been called worse and often in languages other than English. I still don't know what that German soldier was saying when he pointed an M-16 at me but I don't think it was pleasant.
Balance nature by buying your kid a pair of safety glasses or sunnies and tell him to harden up.
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby wurtulla wabbit » Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:48 pm
I laughed at him crying but mum wasn't too chuffed at me so I clammed up and laughed on the inside
Ps, what was a kraut doing pointing a cheap American rifle at you ? Don't those buggers use steyr ( think they did when I was a squadie)
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby g-boaf » Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:49 pm
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
Postby westab » Fri Aug 03, 2012 5:20 pm
Good luck with that - hope it works as the one that I see near my work swoops me on the bike but when I walk through the carpark it leaves me alone (I don't feed it). The one at home will also swoop me on my bike but will eat worms out of my hand (even when wearing cycle gear) he just seems to hate the bike.g-boaf wrote:I haven't encountered any yet. I try to feed the local ones around where I ride in the hope that it might make them more friendly towards me.
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Re: 2012 Magpie Season
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