SPRING is here, and we all know what that means. Warmer days, hay fever and cranky magpies. But here's one you don't want to mess with. Try to pinch one of her coathangers and she could swoop - or swat you like a fly.
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The items are among a mishmash of pieces attached to her nest atop a power pole on the corner of Guinea and Kiewa streets in Albury.
Motorist Sue Caldwell was driving home to Thurgoona after a gym session earlier this week when she spotted the bizarre nest extension.
"I had never seen anything like it before, I thought this magpie has been very busy," Mrs Caldwell said.
"After I took a photo I counted eight coathangers, cable wire that doesn't belong to the power pole,a piece of a XXXX Gold carton and the fly swat."
Mrs Caldwell's photographs have drawn plenty of laughs among colleagues at the Thurgoona Community Centre, but she is concerned the nesting magpie has not chosen the safest place to welcome her newborn.
Meanwhile, after one of the wettest winters in years, Border and North East hay fever sufferers have been warned they face a particularly tough spring.