Magpie swooping season

Driving home from Indooroopilly the other day I was confronted by a cyclist peddling vigorously towards me, head down as he tried to avoid an irate magpie dive-bombing him.  It's that time of year, and when I am out walking I always have to keep an eye out for the swooping birds.

It got me thinking.  One has to admire their natural instinct to protect their nests, eggs and chicks from potential harm.  For them life is to be protected from its very beginning.  The nest / home is precious.  The new-laid eggs are the future.  No postman on his shiny red motorcycle is exempt from their fierce protective instincts.

It seems that we humans could learn from our black and white avian friends.  If only we would regard our home/ family as equally sacred, and protect life from its first beginnings.  Then divorce, family violence and abortion would have no place.