Magpie through the window

ando

With the warm nights we've been having lately I usually leave my window open a bit overnight. Well I won’t be leaving it so open any more. About 6am I heard tapping coming from my windowsill and then something hit the blinds. Next thing I see is a scared (not as scared as me!) black and white magpie flying towards my head !!!! I've never jumped out of bed so fast
Lucky enough he went back out the window as fast as he came through it

Last year I had trouble with Bees/wasps coming in my window, seems things may be getting worse :rolleyes:

anyone else have similar experiance?

Chalk

quote the magpie "nevermore"

billy the squid

1 for sorrow
2 for joy
3 for a girl
4 for a boy
5 for silver
6 for gold
7 for a secret never to be told.

as its only one you better hope none of them crap on your carpet or you will be sorry .

joejoem

For some reason I keep singing the title of this thread to the tune of "Girlfriend in a coma" by the Smiths. - Magpie through the window I know I know its serious...........

monkeyfudge

ando wrote:

Last year I had trouble with Bees/wasps coming in my window, seems things may be getting worse :rolleyes:

You probably have Pterodactyls to look forward to next year.

Ishmael

billy the squid wrote:

1 for sorrow
2 for joy
3 for a girl
4 for a boy
5 for silver
6 for gold
7 for a secret never to be told.

I seen about 15 of them one day, what does that mean??

joejoem

your ****ed

IANOC

ando wrote:

With the warm nights we've been having lately I usually leave my window open a bit overnight. Well I won’t be leaving it so open any more. About 6am I heard tapping coming from my windowsill and then something hit the blinds. Next thing I see is a scared (not as scared as me!) black and white magpie flying towards my head !!!! I've never jumped out of bed so fast
Lucky enough he went back out the window as fast as he came through it

Last year I had trouble with Bees/wasps coming in my window, seems things may be getting worse :rolleyes:

anyone else have similar experiance?

hahaha nice story mate
them gits can attack when provoked

Borzoi

ando wrote:

Lucky enough he went back out the window as fast as he came through it

anyone else have similar experiance?

Similar enough, I was woken last summer by odd sounds from upstairs at about 6am. Thinking I'm getting burgled, bale out the leaba and going up the stairs, there's a whooosss over my head. Now I'm going WTF?

A huge crow has managed to come in the window that was only open about 6 inches, and can't find his way out again, he's been flying into the windows on both sides of the room. Of course now he sees me, he really starts bashing himself around.

So even on my limited wakefulness, I figure I've bugger all chance of catching him, and the longer I'm there, the more terrified the poor bird is getting. So I tear around open all the windows and the door, and go back down to make coffee and let nature takes it's course.

20 mins later all that was left was some feathers and a huge pile of birdcrap on my windowsill

IANOC

Borzoi wrote:

Similar enough, I was woken last summer by odd sounds from upstairs at about 6am. Thinking I'm getting burgled, bale out the leaba and going up the stairs, there's a whooosss over my head. Now I'm going WTF?

A huge crow has managed to come in the window that was only open about 6 inches, and can't find his way out again, he's been flying into the windows on both sides of the room. Of course now he sees me, he really starts bashing himself around.

So even on my limited wakefulness, I figure I've bugger all chance of catching him, and the longer I'm there, the more terrified the poor bird is getting. So I tear around open all the windows and the door, and go back down to make coffee and let nature takes it's course.

20 mins later all that was left was some feathers and a huge pile of birdcrap on my windowsill

Naos

That must have been the funniest wake up ever.
In Grandads home in Sligo, used to always get birds bashing into the window in front room. They would fly in the door, fly about the room and then smash into a window as they made their leave.
They would fall down and just sit there, pretty cool, had to pick them up and sorta throw them out of the door, real filmesque.

*Page*

Starlings came in through the back door and into the down stairs bedroom!! freaked me out big time

Gillo

on a similiar note, my dog once chased another dog on our estate, the other dog ran into it's back garden, through the cat flap and upstairs to it's owners bedroom. My dog followed and gave the owner on hell of a fright.

The_B_Man

me and the gf were lyin in bed with the window open and this little bird decided to fly in. stupid fecker could get in but not out! it was even rammin into walls! we just hid under the covers til it was quiet. we assumed it had gone out the window coz it was quiet for 10 minutes, so we left and went into town. we came back a few hours later and were watchin telly in the room when all of a sudden, the little bugger decided to show himself again. you shoulda seen the scramble to get the windows open again! turns out it hid behind the washing basket until we let our guard down! sly little fecker! oh and there was no bird crap anywhere luckily enough.

monkeyfudge

Borzoi wrote:

Similar enough, I was woken last summer by odd sounds from upstairs at about 6am. Thinking I'm getting burgled, bale out the leaba and going up the stairs, there's a whooosss over my head. Now I'm going WTF?

A huge crow has managed to come in the window that was only open about 6 inches, and can't find his way out again, he's been flying into the windows on both sides of the room. Of course now he sees me, he really starts bashing himself around.

So even on my limited wakefulness, I figure I've bugger all chance of catching him, and the longer I'm there, the more terrified the poor bird is getting. So I tear around open all the windows and the door, and go back down to make coffee and let nature takes it's course.

20 mins later all that was left was some feathers and a huge pile of birdcrap on my windowsill

I go through a similar experience on the mornings after a drunken one night stand.

prospect

Ishmael wrote:

I seen about 15 of them one day, what does that mean??

You have to see them all in one group....

Also,

1 Magpie, seen by 2, brings good luck to both of you.

Also, Also,
If you see a single magpie, say hello to it and it lifts the bad luck.

YeatsCounty

Me and two of my friends were nearly decapitated by a fast moving, low flying seagull a couple of summers back. We were sitting near the coast in a row, chatting away when I spotted comething coming towards us very quickly, at head height.

The three of us dived backwards in perfect unison and we all saw the seagull flash past our faces.

Once I had returned from the public toilets, I mused that we should become synchronised swimmers.

bania

A magpie once came down the chimney of where I live and reeked havoc on the walls. If you corner them and they attack, they supposedly go for your eyes!

*Page*

1 IN flight 2 in sight!

Binomate

A moth flew in my window this morning and ate my bed.

joejoem

Binomate wrote:

A moth flew in my window this morning and ate my bed.

same thing happend to me exept it was a worm and it ate my dog

Garibaldi

An friend of mine was slagging off Catholics (the dirty, Protestant git ) a few weeks ago, just before heading off on a motorbike tour of Spain. He'd been going on and on about how the Pope's death meant there was one less Catholic in the world and how great that was. Well, old John Paul wasn't taking that lying down. He was two days into the tour when, riding up towards Finisterre in the north west, he was hit by a low-flying vulture, breaking several bones and writing his bike off. Don't **** with the Pope, man. Death is just the beginning......

ando

prospect wrote:

If you see a single magpie, say hello to it and it lifts the bad luck.

I wonder if 'JESUS CHRIST' has the same effect

prospect

ando wrote:

I wonder if 'JESUS CHRIST' has the same effect

Well, I suppose if his name is Jesus Christ, then why not!!

tabatha

a stupid magpie comes and sits on my bedroom window most mornings and taps on the window with his stupid beak! if i had a gun!!!

mike65

I have'nt been woken by an intruding bird, but one did crash its way through the front window once - a pheasant and yes it was the shooting season!

I used to be woken by the cat on a summers night, getting in my top window but that was half expected so no night terror..

Mike.

Pet

****ing cat came in the other night and decided, for some reason, that it would be fun to bite my toe. Bitch.

Tiffany

Binomate wrote:

A moth flew in my window this morning and ate my bed.

God I ****ing hate moths. I'm not afraid of them, they just irritate the **** out of me in the summer when you have to leave your window open at night and they fly in and land on your black clothes or on the computer/TV screen, and you can't squish them otherwise there'll be a big stain. :mad:

Son_of_Belial

Lol, I'm laughing pretty hard at these! Let's see... A wood-pigeon came down the chimney in my Great-Aunt's house a few years ago and flapped about covering everything in soot. Then there was the small but unbelieveably feisty bullfinch who was pecking at crumbs outside the same house. I was surprised the little fella let me get so close and then he actually pecked my finger as much as to say "bugger off." Brave little guy! See my old aunt used to always feed the birds so they got pretty tame. Another time I was watching this little mouse scuttling about my back garden after sunset and all a sudden this barn owl came screaming down outta nowhere, I mean straight down and grabbed him! I don't know who got more of a shock, me or the mouse, though I presume it wasn't much fun for my little furry friend, I mean being impaled by razor sharp talons and all....

Beekay

Something like this happened to me once.
I was in bed and i hear screaming from downstairs.My mam and sister run up and get me to come downstairs because there is a "huge" bird in the sittin room.
So i go down expecting a pelican or something stupid like that and all i see is a little sparrow pecking at the window.
My mam was asking me to get rid of him,but all i wanted to do was take a picture with my phone.
i never ended up getting a decent one.
But the weirdist thing is that we don't know how it got in,our chimney is closed off and there were no windows open all night or that day.

The only thing we could think of is that it got in the time the night before when my sisters came in from the pub at 3 in the morning,but we stayed up till 4 and never heard a thing............strange huh.

ando

well the Magpie had another go at me this morning. The window was fully shut this time but I heard the patter of his feet on my windowsile again....... Anyone ever see the film 'The Birds'?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869

mad m

Brings a whole new meaning to Rod Stewarts song "Wake up maggie I think ive got some bird poo for you".

boneless

I was visited on a regular basis by a robin which used to hop in to the kitchen, hop up on the table where he would peck away at any crumbs present.

I was also nearly killed by a seagull. I was on an old Honda 125 SJ, going along the Clontarf Road when this Kamakazi gull crash-dived into me. I missed going under the wheels of a truck by a gnats whisker.

DrIndy

magpies divebomb you if you go near their nest. they are a devil though and one was sitting outside my window at 5am squaking - not a nice wakeup with a hangover I can assure you.

never really been harrassed though by the critters......