OZ REPORT: Springtime: Dallas swooped by teenaged Magpie; ad the weather continues rainy. Jeremy Zakis, NSW.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced. |
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| 0:28.4 | listening. Terms apply. This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchel. Jeremy |
| 0:34.0 | Zachus, New South Wales, and his Spoodleal Dallas, a 10-year-old who is extremely |
| 0:40.7 | accommodating to the families of magpies and other birds who gather around his feeding bowl |
| 0:49.3 | in the morning, and he shares. |
| 0:51.0 | But this adventure is a new one, to me, Dallas out on a peramulation in the |
| 0:56.8 | neighborhood and attracting the same magpies. But, Jeremy, a good day to you. Now, Dallas is |
| 1:03.9 | extremely generous. The magbys are appreciative. However, you tell me he got swooped. What happened? |
| 1:13.7 | Giday, John. Yes, that's right. |
| 1:19.1 | As strange as it is to believe, Dallas actually got swooped by a magpie. And a magpie is actually the one creature that he's made the best friends with. And I'll set the scene here. We're out on |
| 1:23.6 | our morning walk there. It was a relatively beautiful day. It was in between rain showers. |
| 1:27.5 | So we're really enjoying life last week When around about a block from our house, I kind of |
| 1:32.3 | caught sight of what looked like probably a teenage magpie. So it's not quite fully black and white yet. |
| 1:37.2 | It's kind of a little bit gray. But it was kind of watching us a little bit closely and not quite |
| 1:41.6 | the norm, I guess you could say. Then as we sort of trundled |
| 1:44.5 | along the street there, all of a sudden I saw the Magpie actually get into flight and start to |
| 1:49.4 | come at us. And you can really tell when they're either going to just fly past you or if they're actually |
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