Posted on 04/28/2021 2:33:02 PM PDT by mylife
A Torrance family is warning others after they were left feeling like they were living out a horror movie when hundreds of birds poured into their home last week.
The avian invasion began last Wednesday, April 21, and lasted a few days, according to Kerri, the woman who lives in the home with her husband and child. She asked that KTLA withhold her last name.
Kerri says the family came home from dinner to find the flock swarming around inside after swooping down their chimney, practically taking a scene out of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.”
“It’s so hard to explain. If you don’t see it with your own eyes, you’d never believe it,” Kerri said.
Video she shared shows the pulsating flock circling above the family’s chimney before many begin swooping down inside. Another clip shot later shows them up against a window inside the home, still flapping with determination.
“We lost count after 800,” Kerri said.
She says the Carson sheriff’s station put her family in contact with county animal control officials, who said simply to leave their doors open. But the birds weren’t going anywhere.
“They acted like they wanted to get out, but they wasn’t going nowhere,” said Patrick Belleville, a relative who came over to help with the situation. “They were just flying around, just everywhere, every room in the house, every bathroom.”
Belleville said he put his hood and mask on to protect himself from the onslaught.
“They were just beaming off my head,” he said.
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they was pining, for the fiords...
much better in bw
On old man and woman are walking in the park when a bird plops one right on her head “Quick! get me some toilet paper!” she shouts
the old man say why? he’s 1/4 mi away now..
I put chicken wire on the chimney, you can close the flue but they will build nests up there...
...what kind of migrating birds were visiting?
Keep shooting and refill the air cylinder as needed.........
Something similar was featured on an episode of COPS maybe 20 years ago - they were a type of Swift IIRC.
I have lived my whole life hoping for a Garter Snake “ball” in my root cellar.
:D
They look like swallows but I can’t say for sure.
water moccasin ball hoowee!
My town but I don’t recognize the house or the people. My cats would be thrilled with an event like this.
Ktla said starlings.
Chimney Swifts.
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