A bus driver from Exeter believes he was targeted by a massive eagle owl that mistook his bald head for an egg.

Richard Clevedon Smith told the Torquay Herald Express how he was on his way to work when the bird swooped on his ‘egghead’.

The 49-year-old was walking to his bus depot in Exeter at 4am when the bird of prey, which has been photographed by locals roosting in a tree near Exeter FC’s St James Park, came flying towards him.