Australian man suffers double eye injury in magpie swooping attack after ‘conversation’ turns ugly

What started as a “one-way conversation” with a magpie has ended with a Victorian man airlifted to hospital with serious injuries to both his eyes. James Glindemann, 68, said he was about to tuck into a Chinese takeaway lunch on Tuesday at an outdoor mall in Sale, about 200km east of Melbourne, when he was suddenly and viciously swooped by a magpie. “A juvenile magpie sat down in front of me, I had a one-way conversation for a few seconds and it…