Got swooped by a magpie cycling home today, guess I'll be changing my route for a while. Grateful for mandatory bike helmets atm.

Reminds me of a time when I was about 15, absolutely galloping across a paddock to escape a very determined magpie - afterwards my felt riding helmet had rips scored in from its beak.

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"Turns out two native Australian birds of prey, the brown falcon and the black kite, are closet pyromaniacs, and deliberately starting bushfires even though there is a complete fire ban over summer."

So this is a thing, wow

I don't think I've posted this before, and I love it Commercial diver and turtle vid on youtube.

Just outside my office there's a baby kookaburra just chillin' on a branch, practicing his laugh. He hasn't quite got the hang of it yet.

Weird animals!!! I want an aye-aye. And a blobfish.

Thanks to victorian_tweed for the link.