A magpie left a man ‘screaming like a little girl’ after it picked a fight with him on a golf course.
Nick Livings, 36, was playing with his friends Chris and Alex at Coulsdon Manor Golf Club in south London when the bird began terrorising the group.
Mr Livings had just taken a shot when the bird flew down and stood on his ball.
He tried everything to shoo the magpie away, including walking towards it and throwing sticks to startle it.
The bird initially few off but it wasn’t over as after he took his next shot, the dad of two turned around to see the bird perched on his golf bag- potentially having been attracted to the ‘shiny zip’
In an attempt to get the bird away from his bag, the man Caterham, Surrey, from began waving his hands around, and a hilarious video captures the moment the bird pecked his thumb.
He said: ‘I saw the magpie fly out of the tree and land on top of my ball, which I thought was weird. Then it started really pecking at the ball, throwing it, and digging all around it.
‘I started walking around with this magpie on my bag thinking it would jump off or fly off but it didn’t.
Mr Livings had just taken a shot when the bird flew down and stood on his ball
He tried everything to shoo the magpie away, including walking towards it and throwing sticks to startle it
He said: ‘The closer I got I thought “maybe it just wants to be friends” but apparently not. It latched onto the end of my thumb and I screamed like a little girl’
‘The closer I got I thought “maybe it just wants to be friends” but apparently not. It latched onto the end of my thumb and I screamed like a little girl.
‘You can hear from my voice that it caught me off guard. There was no injury, it was just the shock of it clamping down on my glove.
‘We stopped filming because of the laughter, but it kept following us for a while after.’
Once the trio made it to the next hole the bird finally flew off.
Mr Livings said he showed the video to his family and friends who found it hilarious, even if it doesn’t show him in the ‘manliest’ light.
He added: ‘I have shown it to a few people and there is a lot of laughter- mainly based on my high pitched reaction.
‘It doesn’t show me in the most manly of lights! I was attacked by a tiny little bird as a 6’2 bloke.
‘I definitely wouldn’t go back to the course- especially now because magpies attack you!
‘I was definitely shocked. I put my hand out thinking “I am going to befriend a bird here, I can’t wait to show the kids” and it obviously got the hump.
‘I must have been near its nest or something, but either way the bird was having a s*** day and it took it out on me.’
