This is John Bachelor, conversation with my good colleague Jeremy Zuckus, he's in New South Wales,

Southern Hemisphere. It's on the eve of springtime in Sydney and throughout the continent.

And in Sydney especially, but all through the southern parts of the country, now in cold,

it's magpie season as well as spring season. Things are in bloom, the kangaroos are moving around.

Eastern browns and red-bellied black snakes are everywhere, very venomous.

However, what you must watch out for are the magpies. Big black and white birds.

It swooped and mean to draw blood if you get anywhere near their nests. There's a new practical way to fend off the magpies and you need to wear a bicycle

helmet if this is going to work for you.

And Jeremy Zakus introduces us to holographic tape and why that works to keep the magpies away from their dive, their swoop, their bomb run on anybody near their their nest more of this later tonight

holographic tape is something I think we rely on here in Australia pretty much for our own

safety round by make by season.

Holographic tape is just a piece of industrial tape normally about an inch to an inch and a half,

maybe two inches wide and basically comes on big rolls. And what it is is it's basically a tape that has multi-colors in it, very, very reflective.

And if you can imagine cats eyes at night time reflecting in the high beams of your car headlights. Basically it gives that effect in certain

lights. So what happens is that you can actually put it on the back of your helmet when you're

riding your bike. And a magpike comes into

swoop what happens is the sun catches that tape creates this holographic effect which creates a lot of

colors and sort of a bit of a weird look to the back of your helmet and will actually scare the bird away.

And I can tell you John around here, especially here in Southern Sydney,

we absolutely have a lot of people using it because Magpies right now are out in place.