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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barred Wobbler" data-source="post: 3620485" data-attributes="member: 69394">She got a rather amusing video of it around the other side of the car following me. It started reaching up to my camera and I was letting it get to the lens hood to fend it off. The neoprene cover of the hood has now got several short slashes from the tip of its beak. It's sharp! I wasn't too concerned about that, but then it got sick of the lens hood and started taking a very close interest in my bare toes poking out from my sandal. It hunched down and started lunging towards my feet as I decided that this was a battle that could only have one winner and it wouldn't be my toes.  I backed off to sit in the car and it took up position out of the wind a couple of feet away from me against the back door and rear wheel.A Dutch birding couple who turned up after the bird first arrived thought that it was incredibly amusing. They got some good shots too.</blockquote>