Sky News political reporter Simon Love interrupted by swooping bird during live cross [Video]

11:15 EDT 06 Aug 2024, updated 11:43 EDT 06 Aug 2024

A Sky News reporter got some instant criticism of his work live on air on Tuesday when a bird took offence and swooped at him. 

Political reporter Simon Love was rudely interrupted during a live cross about the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) monthly announcement on interest rates on Tuesday. 

The bird divebombed Love, preventing him from speaking to the station’s chief news anchor Kieran Gilbert.

While Gilbert, who was in the studio, said Australians with home loans would be ‘closely watching’ the RBA decision, Love had to closely watch the bird who got far too close for comfort. 

He was reporting from Carrum Downs after travelling around the mortgage belt of Frankston in Melbourne‘s south-eastern outskirts, where mortgage holders had their fingers crossed that rates wouldn’t rise.

‘Woah! Sorry Kieran,’ Love said as the camera cut to him and the angry bird made its presence known.

‘I’ve …