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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Poor fella got swooped by a bird and I to
have stitchesches.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I know what what because of the bird?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, well that's a little I'm not sure. I think
he might have run into something.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Oh yes, okay, but I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Just giving sympathy because I'm his mother and I don't care.
And it sounds so much better to say that you've
been taken out by and.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
There is terror about getting attacked from above like you do.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
It does make people crumble in a way that you know.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Other animal attacks are different because you don't know where
they're coming from.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
They come out of nowhere. I saw an American.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Person who's just moved to Australia putting up a TikTok
video just going.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Y'all, y'all, they have birds that swoop because they call
it swooping. There's actually season, there's a season.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
There's actually a website called Magpie alert dot com was
just full of updates and streets all around Australia. But
like you can specify and there's and they'll show Yeah,
there's like like a yellow magpie and that's like one
that swoops and a red one means it's swooped and
you've had to go to hospital.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
You've been injured.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yea.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Two stitches on his head.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
So where was that?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Well, it was in Blimba. Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I just texted him and said, where was it? Billiana
Street Street?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, Toby used to live on that street. Really, yes,
just down the road.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I don't know if I should out the specific house
because clearly this magpie is living there.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Because he gave me the number. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Wow, So what was he doing there?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
So his mother? No, No, he works.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
He one of his jobs is he reads gas meters
and he was showing someone how to do it and
the bird came down and actually that's what I think happened.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
He might have smacked his head into them, but it
doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You shove me a picture of his bleeding scalp, and
as his mother, I just went, poor love.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I does it they?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I mean, I just yeah, every season it's the same thing.
Do you do the bike ties on the top of
your helmet for raffie?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I've never done it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yes, I actually I got sweet by a bird riding up.
Where was I was the logo wrote like mant gravat. Incidentally,
I went for a ride and I hadn't hadn't figured
in that there was a word mountain in the suburbs.
It was just like, I just I'm going up a hill,
got up a hill. I'm going so slow, and this
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magpie started bang whacking the top of my helmet and
I was going and I had nothing left in the
tank and I was just peddling so slowly came I'm
just like, I'm screaming out. I'm going as fast as
I can.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Was a magpie.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Because you hear that, don't They They go close always,
they just scare.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
There's a park in two I can't remember the name
of it, and it's got this weely thing and it's
just notorious and it picks on the little kids. So
this is terrible. But as my kids grew older, I
just thought, I'll take the dog.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Then it swoops the dog.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Is that what it does?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
But my dogs don't care. It doesn't bother them.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And now if I go out into a place that
I know that there's any sweeping birds there will go
Marley and Molly.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, well you get scared of him. Cry you're worried
about the Makepip.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
You're taller than the rest of us.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You first, I don't think I've been to deal with
the magpie for years. I don't know if that's because
Marlon if I always find them in the backyard sleeping.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I don't have the dog.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He's just good at catching them.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I don't know how. Oh, your dog catches them.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I don't know how, because you've seen him.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
He's a big boy.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, he just like tricks them.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
They swoop.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
They say, to be nice to them. If you feed
a magpie, you might make them friendly.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
They hang around and know the hell out.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
But I love Maggie's. Maggie's the sweeties. Unless they're going
to hurt you, then I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Thirty one O six fives their number, if you've got one,
I mean Bill Yanner Street.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Obviously that's one option we can go.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But we should send you out, Corey to to investigate.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Let's see if a magpie attacks the Bronco.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yes, I have, We've got a lot on today. Send
Cory because and you're much braver than I am. Yeah,
so we send you out. Yeah, big break, big big
footage like you are.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
You go ahead, there see what happens.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
So thirteen six five.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
If you have a known swooping bird street or place
or part, yes, where we can send our resident Bronco.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Take a bat. No, no, protected species, don't gare them.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I just what No, No, you can't do no.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Do you know like little kids can develop their phobia
of birds based on this season. I know a couple
of kids who have this absolute terror because they were
swooped as like two year olds, barely remember the incident,
but like have psychological scars forever some.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Birds, yeah, to their face.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And then now you're afraid of pigeons and other harmless birds.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, like the beautiful pelican looks like it's going to
take you out like a great wife.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yes, you're right though, because so Monty, she's actually scared
of birds.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
She has Hucks and Jason was she swooped.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah yeah, but yeah, so she's honestly really scared of birds.
But Huck's honestly helmet on. He is just like I'll
save you.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
There's an actual website, magpie alert dot com where you
can check out all the sweeps. It gives you the
dates and even the severity of the sweeps where the
people were injured. Those ones shot up red.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So my son Lou got sweeped at bill Jana Street
in Berlimba and ended up with two stitches on his head.
So we want to find out if there are other
bad sweating streets. Jacob Petree Kolanga.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Where So down.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
There on Marsden Road near Goshawk drives until best to drive.
My kids got religiously swooped pretty much. Hear them as
they're coming home from school. You near the screens coming
up to greeting. You know they're coming home. So we
sell them, well, how about you take another route and
you go around that side on the backside of the street.
They went around the backside and started getting swooped by
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plubs taken.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Where is it.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
That there's a notorious one at Melbourne Park and they
are horrendous down there kids?
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Do you think kids are having fun? But they're like
just root them the law, pat them on the bikes
and everything there notorious.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
So you're just on your phone, go go. There's squeals
of joye Jackie, where is this?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Where is this magpie.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
In my back paddock?
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Wow?
Speaker 7 (07:20):
My poor husband just said last night I can't do
anything outside I'm so depressed it's doing my head in.
We can't sit on the verandah. My son was swooped
underneath the carport getting in the cargoing to school this morning.
But on the upside, they're not swooped to me. They're
only going to the boys, so I'm not entirely upset
about that.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Interesting.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Did you pay them?
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Like?
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Not pay them? Not said them? I don't know. Maybe
I smiled nicely, but they're leaving me alone.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I've heard they have facial recognition, like they can from years.
They will remember your face and for whatever reason, you've
got a good face, Jackie.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Oh no, maybe it's just a teacher face. I give them.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Even the magpies are scared.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We've got a lot of people are suggesting places around
Blimber as well, Cambridge Street and Blimber and Blimber Street
in Blimber for Cory to check out. You know what
Blimber actually means. I think it's the land of the
Magpie lark.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah yeah, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
That's why there's little magpies on Oxford Street, like little
characters duios or whatever. So that's where we need to
send you, Corey to test.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
So why would they build houses around there? Then it
was known for a long long time you're going to
get swooped forever.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, you live there.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The first health house was built as a shelter from
the magpies, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Guessing no one is putting that in their real estate perspectives.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
That's right, by the way.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
You're going to get swooped every day.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Are you willing to go because you're tall?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, I'm not willing, but I don't have a choice,
So that is correct.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Yeah, excellent.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
They do put up signs now around Brisbane if there's
been a swooping in the area, a magi swooping. Yeah,
there'll be a sign on a pole someone going, magpies
swooping in this area.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
People have been attacked.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
You look at signs. I do look at signs, yes, yeah.
And there's also there's Magpie Alert. There's a website to
try and help people out because there are a few
there's a few hot spots.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You're an attack.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You've got that tax face. Well, apparently that they do
have facial recognition magpies.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, because they're very very intelligent birds and if you
mean to them, yeah, they remember and they come after you,
and of course it is swooping season. My son got
done and ended up with two stitches in his head.
He ended up in hospital.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Fella in Blimber in the the I think it's the
Aboriginal word for the land of the magpie lark.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
So there are magpies in the area because.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
There's lots of little bird motifs in Blimber down Oxford Street.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I know at Hawthorne Park, you know, neighboring there's there's
a bunch of miners there.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yeah, and they go right over your head and they
snapped their beaks. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And you can be walking along feeling feeling good. You know,
you're in your active wear or whatever else you're feeling fit, and.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Then all of a sudden, active shorts and T shirt
from me whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So yesterday you guys went out to the locate where
your son was here to try and see if you
could find the same magpies.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, but there were Bronco flags everywhere, so no magpie
was going to take out coreotes there. So we went
to Belimba Park and we actually found this beautiful big
gum tree and right up the top was a huge
magpie nest and two magpipes. Perfect and yet when you know,
we couldn't get their attention.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
So I don't know, did you read something if you're fast?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
So I was walking, I was walking up and down.
There's this thing staring at me, and I'm like, he's
not coming near me. So I looked up what what
do they think the reasons are? And it was something
they were fast traveling in groups. The magpie was feeling threatened.
So I thought I'd get the speed back Bally theyesn't
like speed.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I'll show you speed, Okay, come on, then, I'm pretty fast.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
It's not even looking at you.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That was speed.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
He turned around like, look these idiots. He's laughing at us.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
No, he turned his butt rely.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I literally turned around, I mean whatever it was, whatever
it was, and just went, oh, you think that's fast?
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Mate?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
And I love that you managed to take this all
as a compliment.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Corey.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I'm surprised. I really thought I would have got swooped.
There's a perfect place to get swooped in a park,
open area, high trees, there's magpies, there's a nest, there's
two magpies as a mom and a dad, and nothing.
Actually he's actually looking at me, like, look at that.
I think I'm just they're just like he's too nice,
that guy, what he's was fast and everything?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Does that make your son an a hole? If it's
it's not your fault. We're not victim blaming people.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Someone didn't get swooped though on the day someone got swooped.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, you may have not been by magpie.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah it might have been by me.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
If you flap your hat in the right way, right
behind someone's head, why.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Didn't I see that?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Will listen, so Robin's walking, you think in the days over,
no one's been swooped.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I have legitimate bird fears.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
They do a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Monty, You'll do it. Legitimate bird fear.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
She's got a.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
No bird fear, No bird fear him. He protects Monty.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Hear all the stories of why you've got a bird fear,
because it will come from some childhood thing where your
mum has tried to feed a pelican and it took
your hand.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yes, I remember, because I remember doing radio in mandra
In down south of Perth, and there was a pelican
there that took a chihuahua.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
In its mouth.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It flew away with a person's chihuahua. There was a
big no, don't know. Oh, that was a bad feel,
like and I a drop. Now there's someone who's got
a bird feed you. After that, Wow, that's a true story.