Iain Smith08-2011 magpie hose
from Iain Smith on 28 Aug 2011

So the story goes, I was watering our front yard because we’d just put down some top dressing and seed to try to encourage new grass to grow when a magpie landed not to far from me. At first I thought it might be spring and I was too close to a nest, but no, so then I thought he might be after my seed but magpies don’t eat seed. Either way he was close enough to spray so I gave him a gentle hit with the hose, then the strangest thing happened…