Comments on: An encounter with a Northern Goshawk https://pmags.com/an-encounter-with-a-northern-goshawk Practical advice and musings on the outdoors, hiking, backpacking, ski touring, and camping. Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:16:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tomcat https://pmags.com/an-encounter-with-a-northern-goshawk#comment-678996 Fri, 03 May 2019 23:08:19 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=11041#comment-678996 I was drilled in the top of the head by a goshawk in the Lost Creek Wilderness in 2000. It left a pretty big gash on the top of my head. It hit me from behind. It came back for a second swoop. I ducked and put my poles in the air. It hit the poles. I left quickly as it eyed me up before it made a third pass.

]]> By: Paul Mags https://pmags.com/an-encounter-with-a-northern-goshawk#comment-581614 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:14:53 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=11041#comment-581614 In reply to David Fanning.

Hmm..some Hollywood director could make a classic film about bird attacks. If only. 😉

]]> By: David Fanning https://pmags.com/an-encounter-with-a-northern-goshawk#comment-581612 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:13:27 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=11041#comment-581612 We had a red-wing blackbird terrorizing the neighborhood bike path last summer. And, on a trip to Canberra (the capital city of Australia) one spring, almost everyone on the bike paths was wearing a helmet with pipe cleaners sticking out of it at odd angles. This was to keep the Australian mockingbird (bigger than its US cousins) from knocking them off their bikes as they rode along. I had to re-route around a couple of nests on my ride to the lab each day.

http://www.bikehacks.com/bikehacks/2010/11/when-birds-attack-bike-helmet-hacks.html

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