Spring has finally arrived around here, and a recent tweet reminded me of the depths of fear that Spring brought to me as 7-year old me back in Australia: swooping magpies. These native birds, related but quite different to the magpies of North America and Europe, get very aggressive in the Spring, and will attack anyone that walks into their territory, swooping in from behind and attacking your head with their long sharp beak. (They can easily draw blood.) They'll repeat their attacks over and over again until you leave. People try many things to prevent the attacks, like wearing sunglasses backwards or putting fake eyes on the back of your head, but as you can see from the video below they don't really work:
True story: my mum used to make we wear a plastic ice-cream tub on my head as I walked to primary school as a magpie defense. (This was before bike helmets were a thing.) That didn't work either.
That's all from the blog for this week. Have a great weekend, and we'll be back next week.