Went out for a ride today. I was attacked by a magpie on the way out and a crow on the way home.

As if the bloody spiders aren't bad enough!

oh god, I have seen it happen to a bike rider over here on the coast.. not nice !

Em x

You'll find that they'll attack over the next 6-9 weeks - breeding season.
Found some info for you. Might pay to read the "Swooping" section at the bottom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Magpie

A colleague (lives in North Richmond and cycles to the station about 5am every morning) has been attacked lately. He sent a mail round this morning with a link to a cycling forum that has a map on it, where you can log the location of attacks - a lot of our colleagues cycle to work.

I can't remember the forum off-hand but you should be able to google for it.

Thanks. The cable ties idea has been suggested to me and I will use it on the Spring Ride.

I think I might swim for a few weeks until they stop doing this. It was really scary.

I have seen plenty of cyclists using the cable ties recently... give it a go?

Em x

Wondered why riders had them in their helmets.

Apparently they only swoop from behind. Someone with nowt better to do did a study once, and found that if he painted eyes on the back of his baseball cap, he didn't get swooped at all.

So you could try putting stickers on the back of your helmet and draw big eyes on them....

Perhaps you blamed the packaging when they bought it? lol!

Em x

http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?ie...,0.023839&z=16

or

http://tinyurl.com/ybhfc8x

www.****offyoustupidbird.org

Any more than an hour and my skin goes all pruney . . . . well done!

My husband is a postie and he is lucky as there are no trees on his round so he does not get attacked but a friend of his does.He can be seen riding his bike and waving his arms around like a mad thing,poor thing!

Dog owners watch out!My black lab cross gets attacked by birds while the other one does not.They must think she is a giant crowSue.

Oi. Watch who you're calling a stupid bird.