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Close encounters of the feathered or furry kind
October 28 2015
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RHP User
10 years ago
Being pooped on by a bird. Thats happened to me twice. They have great aim. Im sure they time it so you are walking directly under their tree at the precise moment to make sure it lands on your head.
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225Special
10 years ago
16 years ago about midnight, while trying to unbolt the street sign of the street we were moving out of, balancing on a stack of milk crates I had a Tawny Frogmouth Owl land about 2 inches from my hands. Scared the absolute shit outta me, how I never went over backwards I still don't know.
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RHP User
10 years ago
First time was in high school, right on my shoulder. Second time, I had already gotten into the car and the stupid seagull angled it just so and got me on my hair and all down my front. There was a lot of cursing and screaming, much to the amusement of him and my kids! 😠 - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
10 years ago
My most recent was only a few days ago, when I found a female king parrot in my bathroom. She and her mate have been visiting my birds a lot and she had wandered inside.
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Forus1234
10 years ago
We watched a wedge tailed eagle eating his prey, (possibly a rabbit), at our place on the weekend. We kept a good 100 metres away, it's wing span was huge! Sometimes they fly above our place, teaching their chicks to fly.
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MsJonesy
10 years ago
Anyone who visits my house has a close encounter with one weird furry beast. He is at least a very friendly beast and is happy to have pats and cuddles and sit next to you...... but the minute any adult fun starts he has a pyscho attack of epic proportions. This includes uttering noises straight from Poltergeist while he runs up and down the halls, climbing the curtains and blinds, hiding under the bed and attacking any feet which are on the ground and ripping up the carpet. Sheesh.... it certainly makes it hard to concentrate on the people at hand.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Oh hang on, you did not mention anything about woolly kind did you Seriously though, as mentioned in another post, bloody magpie dive bombed me on Sunday, damn near tore my ear off, had me stuttering magpie, pie..., pie, pie
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RHP User
10 years ago
Been shat on a few times have been told and read it is a sign of good luck, yeah right. Was at the footy once and saw a gull shit in a guys bucket of chips, he turned around and it was my cousin (freaky out of thousands of people). My favourite encounter was outside Ballarat. I was sitting silently holding a branch out and had a pair of Blue fairy wrens alight on the branch. When I was a kid I got stuck down a mine shaft (amusing tale) and spent a good hour making friends chatting with a goanna. Oh and back when the Melbourne zoo had a patting area when I was small I was bitten by their donkey
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Andremmo
10 years ago
The Fairy Penguins are still on the breakwater at the end of St Kilda Pier. Its a whole lot faster and cheaper to see them there for free than to drive down to Phillip Island. As for more exciting animal adventures, I've been bitten by dogs and scratched by cats, thrown off horses, attacked by cattle, geese, swans, magpies and clucky hens. Must be my face...
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RHP User
10 years ago
The monkeys in the forest in Ubud can be scary ..one sat on my head and proceeded to try and take my earring .the handler managed to divert it's attention so I kept my ear 🐒🐒🐒🐒xxFreya
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RHP User
10 years ago
I treated myself to breakfast at a local cafe the other morning, and had an unexpected encounter with a wagtail. The cafe has a beautiful outdoor eating area - essentially a garden setting. I noticed lots of wagtails flitting around while I was waiting for my food, and they didn't seem too bothered by us humans. Within a few minutes of my meal arriving, I had one perched on the edge of my plate helping himself to my scrambled eggs! He stuck around until I finished... cutest breakfast companion I've had in quite a while :)
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RHP User
10 years ago
As often as possible thankyou. 4 metre Goanna and my dog had tousle out the back last week. Kangas and echidnas In back and front yard every day. Catching birds next week. Bliss - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
10 years ago
At my old place the kookaburras and rainbow lorikeets would fly up into the kitchen if I didn't come out fast enough with their food after getting home, they'd fly up in a group, then the designated emissary would fly in, hop over, purr or chirp till I got up and then they'd go back outside to be fed and fly back into the bush. As a child I got bitten by a horse, and once was attacked by a mother kangaroo because it confused my toy Matilda kangaroo for it's joey.
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RHP User
10 years ago
They are naughty birds, sitting at a picnic table in a national park have had on dive in to steal a snag off a plate. I've also seen one swoop in and take a snag from a friends hand.
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AnnieWhichway
10 years ago
5 of us in the ocean 200 metres from shore waiting for a wave, chatting amongst ourselves. Albatross doing some fishing cruises in the distance. Changes course towards us, drops altitude. Closer. Closer. Couple of last minute flight adjustments. Drops payload. Bullseye. Hits the red head guy on the shoulder. The rest of us fall off our surfboards in laughter. True story i will never forget.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Snakes, spiders and and various birds and many other critters.......... Perhaps the two most memorable1) while sitting quietly on a motor bike while droving sheep, having a curiuos koala come right up to me and paw the motor bike and my boot.2) Being able to get within a metre of a large goanna by sneaking closer every time he put his head in a dead kangaroo carcass. Watched him from up close for 5 or 10 minutes and while I didn't move he seemed to be unaware of me. Oh and my spirit soars every time I see a wedge tailed eagle
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RHP User
10 years ago
....... 2013 ... returning from a lost grand final (Freo) .... near the border approached what looked to be crows on feeding on something on the side of the road .. a long way off .... son driving ... 4 weeks experience/ 120km /hr ..... crows getting bigger .... and bigger ... and .... distracted by 2 large wedge tails ...... when a third decided to visit them just as we slipped underneath him as we passed them ..... scared the b'jesus outta me ..... son refused to drive for the rest pf he journey ..... ... wedgie seemed to be intact.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Well, one magpie in particular, actually. When I was at uni, I had a lovely walk through a nature reserve to get to my train station. A certain magpie took a dislike to me - there's no accounting for taste, right? And it would swoop me daily. One morning it got too close, and got caught in my hair. My hair at the time was extremely long, and it is very thick, so it got well and truly tangled, and it was a terrifying experience trying to get it out.
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RHP User
10 years ago
When I had a masses of hair years ago there were a pair of magpie larks (peewees, mudlarks) who loved to swoop/hover and help themselves to my hair for their nest whenever I walked by.
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RHP User
10 years ago
Does blindfolded cuffed feather teasing count ? - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
10 years ago
Freya the penguins are alive an well at St Kilda. They've recently had babies (chicks?). Very cute. Whats not so cute is that apparently a couple of tiger snakes made it to St Kilda the other day as well. How?!?!?
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MsJonesy
10 years ago
Quoting 'pieklet' Freya the penguins are alive an well at St Kilda. They've recently had babies (chicks?). Very cute. Whats not so cute is that apparently a couple of tiger snakes made it to St Kilda the other day as well. How?!?!? They are just out a bit earlier this year. They are attracted to the mice and rats who feed on the rubbish we leave behind on the beach and foreshore. I think we can call that a man made problem
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RHP User
10 years ago
Quoting 'kissk' Quoting 'pieklet' Freya the penguins are alive an well at St Kilda. They've recently had babies (chicks?). Very cute. Whats not so cute is that apparently a couple of tiger snakes made it to St Kilda the other day as well. How?!?!? They are just out a bit earlier this year. They are attracted to the mice and rats who feed on the rubbish we leave behind on the beach and foreshore. I think we can call that a man made problem Always there? Eeeew! I will never walk on the beach with the same carefree abandon again (whilst dodging backpackers)
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