Magpie Prevention
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Norco Maniac
Is back!
Feeding them helps, and they're quite partial to cat food. Used to be a nest around the corner from me, right next to a bus stop mind you. Fecker had a 10 acre bush reserve right across the road to nest in, but noooo.....
this one was ok if we were on a bmx, not too bad on my Norco, but holy hell would break loose if it spotted me when I was riding the crappy trailer bike! Took a full season of offering propitiation in the form of food gifts, but worth it. Bloody hurts when they hit you full in the helmet.
this one was ok if we were on a bmx, not too bad on my Norco, but holy hell would break loose if it spotted me when I was riding the crappy trailer bike! Took a full season of offering propitiation in the form of food gifts, but worth it. Bloody hurts when they hit you full in the helmet.
what about a maggy meat tray attached to your helmet, thus when they swoop, they go oh...tasty morsels.yum, yum....
safreek
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Not me, I don't do goggles
link1896
Mr Greenfield
Plus that dudes young enough to be your son
safreek
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To be honest he wouldn't be much older than my grandson, that really brings a tear to my eye. Where do all the years go
safreek
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Yeah, but what if there is two of the bastardsThe only REAL preventative measure against magpie attacks.
stirk
Burner
Every Magpie I see I whistle as best I can in a Magpie tune what I think is a hello.
I've been swooped once, maybe I was out of tune.
But I ride in the bush 95% of the time and these domesticated Magpies seem to leave the mountain bikers alone and just target roadies, I'm ok with that the state of play
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
One listed here, https://www.magpiealert.com/All-Australia-Magpie-Map.php
I've had one crazy one swoop me on the end of the T-Way and drew blood under my eye. I don't ride without glasses. I've also been bitten underneath the earlobe but a snarky stealthy one.
Mum has about 10 of them hang around here backyard everyday. They sit on the window sill and wait for food which she is trying to hold back on since it will only bring more. One sniff of food and the whole family and cousins turn up.
If they had hands and opposable thumbs, I'd put my money on them to win the next global war or at the very least, an election of a sizable country.
stirk
Burner
As I said above, they like to blood bloody roadies.
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
My earlobe-o-lectomy attempt happened on MTB, unfortunately. Maybe they get pissy navigating trees on their death dives or just get a better strike rate on roadie zones.
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
They don't care about the cat at all either. It will only end badly if he could even be bothered to try.
Mum's says' Hi' Unc.
mark22
Likes Dirt
They know your an easy target..
safreek
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link1896
Mr Greenfield
It's pretty cool sitting under a tree with a magpie warbling away, I've many memories sitting under a willow on the family farm overlooking the Gippsland lakes with a family of maggies singing away. Never a threat any time of the year. We would feed them.
Urban sprawl and abuse would be the cause of their behaviour changes in guessing?. Closer to a school, the worse they seem to be, I'm guessing it's from kids relentless throwing of rocks.
Urban sprawl and abuse would be the cause of their behaviour changes in guessing?. Closer to a school, the worse they seem to be, I'm guessing it's from kids relentless throwing of rocks.
The noise should scare the fuckers off
