Deborah Flint was walking her springer spaniel, Pippin, when something hit her 'shockingly hard' from behind.
A woman is warning people to stay vigilant after she was attacked by a bird of prey while walking in woodland.
She now has a large lump on her head and three small cuts, presumably from the bird's beak and talons. Her neighbour was also attacked over the weekend in the same spot."It felt like I'd been hit on the head by a hammer or a rock, shockingly hard, and I didn't hear anything," she said.Ms Flint said she looked around "wildly" before spotting the feathered tail of a bird up in a tree.
She said she only approached the crate - which she now believes may have been a nesting box for owls - as she thought it may have been a geocache. She now wants to raise awareness by warning others not to approach boxes that may be serving as homes for wild birds.
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