Is it safe for me to get back on the bike?
Specifically in the Inner South.

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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This is a photo of a noisy friarbird which has swooped me and other walkers along the bike path in Latham, so those who travel that path beware.
And, magpies move over!
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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, [...]

So having not been swooped by a single magpie this season so far (even the one vicious near the Woden underpass seems to have retired), I’m surprised at how aggressive the Mynas have been instead.
Walking around the ANU where there is an abundance of Mynas I was being swooped left right and center.
I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]