Posted on 02/10/2005 3:01:39 PM PST by aomagrat
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Dozens of birds, drunk from eating holly berries, crashed into the glass of an office building and died earlier this week.
"It was like an Alfred Hitchcock movie," worker Denise Wilkinson said. "It was spooky. You could hear them where they flew into the glass."
Warm weather and an ample supply of berries attracted hundreds of cedar waxwings into the enclosed courtyard of the three-story building Tuesday,
The birds began getting drunk on the berries. They got so loopy that some were falling off branches and others were slamming into the glass walls that enclose the courtyard, said Burgess Mills, the building's owner.
About half of the 100 birds that slammed into the building died, workers said.
Groundskeepers have tried to help the birds by putting tape on windows or nets over the holly trees to keep them from eating the berries, Mills said.
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nice time to bring the kittys out......they love scooping up those drunken birdies.........
Doesn't holly have psychotropic properties?
SO9
Birds shouldn't drink and fly.
Ya'll gotta see this.
I have cleaned off berry juice droppings from the house exterior, the patio, patio furniture and have revived stunned cedar waxwings that ran into the glass doors..I know the problem.
isn't there a dram shop case here for some enterprising attorney with PETA?
"Groundskeepers have tried to help the birds by putting tape on windows or nets over the holly trees to keep them from eating the berries, Mills said."
Why are we ALWAYS trying to foil the Darwinian tendencies of a species to eradicate itself? (Xn sarcasm)
So we can sit around and laugh at wasted kitties?
We have doves that "graze" in our backyard...they bolt in panic whenever the local redtail hawk cruises by, and we must get our back windows (virtually the entire rear of our home is either window or slider) slammed into, leaving the feathery silhouette, 3 or 4 times a month.
Some male cardinals will attack their image in a window endlessly..
We also have the dove/ hawk problem at times.
Cedar Waxwing
I have seen these guys here in Central Texas lately. We don't see them often in our suburbs.
Theresa H. Kerry call customer service.
birds are dumb
LOL!! Why is that picture funny?
I can see it now, a call to cut down all holly trees.
I live ~15 miles from the Malibu area in CA., on the other side of the coastal mountains. We have flocks of big, fat, aggressive seagulls that moved in and took over the airspace. Imagine a 5 pound chicken with 5+ foot wings. Those droppings are bigger than a CD. Even the blackbirds ran away.
I see both these and the Bohemian waxwing while trout fishing in the west (Colorado, Wyoming)...
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