I was attacked (no other word for it!) by a Magpie-Lark outside Readings bookshop in Lygon Street, Carlton, about five years ago. It was pretty worked up, having (as I later learned) been fighting its own reflection in a car-door at the kerbside. I literally did not see it coming, and felt a thud against my left temple. The tip of its bill scratched the conjuctiva of my left eye, and, as I mopped the bleeding, I had to be helped to a nearby medical centre. There, I was told that, had the angle of the attack been slightly different, my injury could have been much more serious, something I don’t much care to think about. I still can’t look at the bill of one of those things without inwardly shuddering. I think it was this time of year, so beware the revved-up Magpie-Lark!
Jim Preston.
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