Quote Originally Posted by northstar View Post
Closest I ever came to having anything swooping at my head was when I almost got taken out by a huge goose.
On my training ride at weekends, and any day I get to commute one way or the other to work, I am bait.

We have magpies who swoop and are getting braver and braver (although they always attack from behind. Usually before summer begins there are some who connect with helmets.

So my partner/ sons go and lie in wait with a rifle for me to bike past in the various "magpie zones" in the hope they will see where the birds land. So far we have sorted one!