Dive Bombing Birds

Car and a bird! I know which one I'd put my money on, LOL! We have birds like that, and the little 'willie wagtails' are real torments when it comes to cats, but it's quite funny to watch. The magpies are the birds that will attack most here, including their own reflection. I hate it in the mating season when they start slamming into my bedroom window. They make a hell of a racket, especially if you're trying to sleep in. They don't shy from side mrrors on cars either, or us if were just walking down the street!

Whoa, that is one bold bird! I knew that mother birds will protect their nests against anyone or anything that comes too close, but I never thought that one would dive-bomb a car!!! How big was this bird? She must have eaten her Wheaties that morning for sure!!! I know that birds will protect their nests at any cost first hand. When I was younger, there was a city park I always used to play in called Burnet Woods. I and a couple of other kids were playing on the jungle gym, which was a normal spot for me. This time however was different. A mother robin had picked one of the wooden poles there to build her nest in there since the last time I had been there, but it was hidden so nobody really knew it was there, until I climbed to that side. All of a sudden the mother robin swooped out of the trees and dive-bombed my head!!! Scared me so bad because I never saw her coming. I quickly got down out of the jungle gym and ran. A couple of my friends saw me running and asked me what was wrong. I told them and, them being boys, had to go and investigate what was going on. They climbed up to the part where the nest was, and sure enough, got dive-bombed as well. The funny thing was, an older kid was there playing with us, and he wanted to see if he would get dive-bombed too. He climbed up, and the robin flew close to his head, but never pecked him. We yelled for him to take off his hat, in case the robin saw this and thought pecking him pointless. He did, but the robin still didn't peck him. Maybe it was because he was bigger than the rest of us, but the robin never did bother him.

I have never had that happen to me but I have heard stories of where birds do this as your discussion has stated. I wonder sometimes what is in the birds mind. I do know that birds will protect their nests and their young. But what was the car doing for the bird to dive bomb it. It is perplexing why a bird would dive bomb a car of all things.

WOW - that's one brave bird :-). When I was a kid we had a huge open piece of land right up the road from our house. We all used to ride our bicyles there as it had great ramps and bumps! My little jack russel was part of the gang and always joined us - we had dive bombing birds as well. They never dive bombed us - only my jack russel and they were almost as big as him!