Chances are if you've ever been around an area with some nesting birds, you've been buzzed.

That's been a recurring theme this summer as the number of reports of aggressive hawks has been on the rise.

High River Biologist Greg Wagner says it's usually nothing to worry about, but you should heed the warning and keep on moving.

"I think they're just putting you on notice that you need to move. I'm not saying that they probably couldn't take out a chunk of scalp, but I haven't heard of too many cases where that happens. Generally they're just trying to get you to move. Just trying to protect their nests and young."

Most of the birds breeding in our neck of the woods are off the nest now and the young are out flying on their own.

However Wagner says this can present problems, particularly for larger birds like hawks and falcons who take a bit longer to master the skies.

He says from time to time you'll see something strange like a hawk sitting on a road.

He says chances are it's just a young one feeding on dead gophers, or another food source.

"The other thing with the open areas, you get things like grasshoppers and other things like that, that are more obvious next to the tall grass of the ditches. But they need to learn that highways aren't good places to be, and it's probably not a good thing that they're learning that. The quicker that they learn that, the better."

Wagner calls them crazy teenagers, who'll learn proper survival skills very quickly, or die trying.