Gotcha! Moment magpie swoops down and snatches spider off terrified driver’s car
- A video captures a magpie swooping in and snapping up a spider for lunch
- The arachnid had been hitching a lift on woman’s car for several miles
- Driver in Landsborough, Queensland, had been about to swipe it off the car
This is the moment a magpie swooped in and snatched a huge spider off a woman’s car just as she was working up the nerve to remove it.
The spider had hitched a ride on the car for several miles before the driver pulled over in Landsborough, Queensland, to try to remove it.
The unnamed driver shared her footage online, explaining: ‘I was travelling down the mountain from Maleny… when I saw this huge spider in the rearview mirror.’
She said she pulled over to ask a tradesman to get rid of the spider – but he was too afraid of it.
She added: ‘He took one look at it and said, “Hell no!”
‘I kept driving hoping to send it flying, but it just kept wandering about the back window.’
She stopped her car again and pulled out her phone to film as she steeled herself to get rid of the spider.
‘I got out and turned on the camera, in case everything went pear-shaped, and as I worked up the nerve to do the swipe, then in flew my unlikely “hero.”‘
A video captured in Queensland, Australia shows an eight-legged furry beast crawling on a woman’s car where it had been hitching a lift for miles
The clip shows the furry brown spider getting closer to the woman as it scales down the side of her car.
‘What you doing?’ she asks the spider tentatively.
Seconds later, a black and white bird dives down and in one fell swoop, snatches the spider up in its beak and soars off.
The woman exclaims in relief as the magpie flies away. In her caption, she adds: ‘I love birds.’
A magpie dives down and snatches the huge spider up in its beak and soars off