When the 21-year-old Bathurst resident heard magpies were swooping along the bike track behind Abercrombie Estate, he decided to head to the scene of the attacks on Saturday.

He strapped a GoPro Hero 3+ video camera on his bike hoping to catch an attack on film.

“I knew there was a magpie swooping there, so I wanted to film it to show what it was like from my point of view,” he said.

He certainly succeeded. 

Rather than being frightened by the impending attack, Mr Dibley said it was “exhilarating”.

“It was a bit of an adrenalin rush; it made me ride a bit faster,” he said.

Mr Dibley has passed on his video – which captures the magpie as it makes numerous swoops while Mr Dibley pedals and looks back over his shoulder at his attacker – to Western Advocate readers.

While the magpie came close during the ride, Mr Dibley said he managed to escape unscathed with some great footage to show his mates.

“They usually don’t hit you, they just fly into your personal space,” he said.

“It was fairly noisy; it didn’t hit me ... I didn’t realise how close it was until I saw the video. I just saw a black flash go past me as I was riding.

“I just think it’s a bit of a laugh, I think it’s a bit of an adrenalin rush.”

NSW National Parks and Wildlife ranger Steve Woodhall told the Advocate last month that it’s the dominant male birds with “too much testosterone” that launch the annual attacks.

“He’s just on the hunt for anything that might be a danger ... every now and then they just get fixated on a particular area,” he said.

“They’re not thinking rationally, they’ve just got testosterone running through them.”

Mr Woodhall said removing the offending magpie is rarely an option as another male will become dominant, kill the existing chicks, and the breeding process will start again.

“This is going to last for about six weeks until the chicks have fledged,” he said.