A video of a terrified child being continuously swooped by a protective magpie is proof Australia’s magpie season is one of the scariest times of year. The video has since been shared on local meme accounts and has racked up tens of thousands of views. See another run-in Sherwood had with a magpie below for context:Why do magpies swoop? Strategies To Avoid The Swoop Cross the road or avoid known swooping trees for the first few weeks of spring. Not even when she was on a rope dangling a few metres from a magpie nest.

Source: Huffington Post September 29, 2020 01:30 UTC