by Jen G 
Okay, “killer” is an exaggeration. A reader wrote in to tell us a funny, but at the same time a little frightening story about her recent run in with an aggressive bird in Transmitter Park. The part about other birds that hang out to watch the action really got me laughing:
“I go to Transmitter Park a lot, it’s very close to my office. On one such visit about a month ago…
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It would help if someone put up a sign to warn folks away from the bush. The poor birds have enough problems feeding hungry babies without humans purposefully harassing them. I was dive-bombed by osprey parents when I was little and climbed up into their nest. Pictures were in Nature Magazine in the ’50s. My own fault for being dumb, but then, I was only four or five.
Thanks Nancy. I will get Jon on it. And I hope you saved that copy of Nature!
Sorry to hear about bird attacks here in the neighborhood. I’ve been attacked by red-winged blackbirds in the Chicago area, but not in Greenpoint. I was biking outside of the city at the time and felt something like a sharply-clawed hand grab and try to lift me off my bike! I thought it was my friend biking behind me. He witnessed the whole thing. I think the bird may have circled overhead as well. It was bigger than an “average” bird. Later that evening or week, they did a story on the local news about people around the city being attacked by these birds. It thought it was kinda crazy.
Certain birds can be aggressive around their territory and nests. Now I inderstand Angry Birds more, haha.
-H
Just got attacked by the mockingbird myself. Little SO and so tried to pull my hair out! Lol. Aggressive so stay away of the kent at entrances. It’s like a Sven out of the Hitchock movie Birds!!
I was trying to clean the gutters last year when one attack me last year, every time when i went outside, or try in get in my car mocking birds would attack me, this lasted about 2 weeks, i started reading about them, and was very surprise how they remember people faces, this year i got smart, if you tear down the nest before they lay the eggs, they won’t attack you, they have tried to built 2 to 3 nest in my tree, it might sound mean but i like working on my front lawn everyday, our neighborhood has trees everywhere, now they did built a nest in the back yard, i gave them their respect, i try to mow the yard the best i could until i noticed they was ready to attack i ran inside, i love hearing them sang all night long