Hannah has sent in this touching effort on the part of the local wildlife to heal the drunken damage to public art.
It’s good to see On The Staircase make it to three!
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Is it safe for me to get back on the bike?
Specifically in the Inner South.

Canberrans are tough enough to shrug off a magpie swooping.
Not so the good folks of Tuncurry.
A 10 year old girl was riding her bike and being swooped by a magpie. A passing good samaritan offered to drive her home, but she refused and he drove off.
By the time the story was reported by the ABC, [...]

For reasons passing understanding a couple of Russian websites are taking an interest in last year’s story on magpies which included an image of cyclists with zip ties on their helmets.
We’re getting quite a bit of inbound traffic right now as Russians come to laugh at Canberrans silly helmets.

I thought this was quite ironic at the Tugg recycling facility this morning.
So you do the right thing, recycle the things you should, and you get attacked by a magpie whilst doing so.
The council responds by putting up a sign saying watch out for the bird, it may swoop you.

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On the bike path parallel to Kurungai Drive, where Spence an Fraser meet.
A cowardly attack from the rear by an overprotective magpie, shocked the living daylights out of me. Got me on the cheek, right next to the ear.
Time for magpie protective measure me thinks.

The neighbourhood magpies have decided they hate me.
As soon as they hear the garage open, they come over to the house.
This is what swoop season looks like from the victims perspective.
They follow me for 2 blocks as I ride away, and eagerly greet me upon my return.
Anything I can do to let [...]

Schadenfreude
scha•den•freu•de [shahd-n-froi-duh]
Noun
Satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune.
Magpies are schadenfreuden sunsubitches!
You can see it in their beady little eyes, and as the weather warms up so too does their appetite for causing fear and panic in the streets.
Having spent most of my life being unfairly targeted by these spring demons of the sky, [...]

Territory And Municipal Services are warning that it’s magpie time again:
With the warmer weather just around the corner Canberrans are urged to be aware that the magpie swooping season has begun.
“Magpies are an important part of the Canberra environment and for most of the year they are good neighbours. During the six week breeding season, [...]

Ok Ok I know magpie swooping has featured on this site before – but my question is “is the swooping season over”?
As one who is petrified of said birds, and lives in an area populated by swoopers, I am keen to get back on my bike but not before I know the swooping season has come [...]

Heyy guys, the name’s Leigh.
I’m 11, yes thats right, but I really need someones help.
The last two days on the way home from school (On my bicycle) I’ve been swooped and pecked at by male magpies. On the first day I was attacked by one but now I’m being attacked by the odd three.  It’s totally [...]

My Daughter catches the bus to and  from school every day and we have a long driveway (200m), and every day she has to walk with a stick held straight above her head so she can get to and from the house.
I have watched this maggie and I don’t know how to stop him from [...]

[photo by owen]
No, this is not a post about Collingwood (although hopefully they will get beaten this weekend!) but the other feathered variety of magpie, currently in battle season.
Now I get the whole “protecting the nest” thing, I really do.  Having been attacked on my bike several times over the past week, I was [...]

Out walking the dogs with the missus and the young fella on his bike the other day when my young fella was swooped by a magpie.
He was about 30 metres in front of us and the magpie wasn’t getting that close so he was unaware but this is in the same area where we get [...]

Small footy clubs have long had a tradition of propping up players’ games fees with part-time work in the local pub or club. So perhaps that’s what’s going on at Garema Place’s Magpies City Club.
Regardless the reason, who ever is back there in the kitchen, it ain’t a cook.
Garlic bread: passable but strangely lacking anything [...]

Allied Forces (ACT Parks people) were today seen mounting a counter attack to rid fair Ainslie of the Magpie menace that has terrorised local residents for the last four weeks. 
“He’s mad!” said one frightened resident, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. 
“The last month has been terrible. I can’t put on me lotto or have a cold one at [...]