"There was no mention of what kind of birds were involved."
That's funny! I hope they were Grackles. Nobody cares for them.
**I hope they were Grackles.**
I was thinking the same thing.
Grackles, or starlings? How big of a bird, are we talking about, in this event?
We'd get flocks of 10s of thousands of starlings, when I lived in KY in the 70s. Our street was lined with poplars, and they'd roost and make all kinds of noise, and one heckuva mess. Really obnoxious.
We've got starlings here in Michigan and at times they flock by the thousands.......
At least grackles will live in the country part of the time. Pigeons are city birds and they are nasty! I would love to see some city pigeons get poisoned.
Same for crows and pigeons.
Auburn, NY has a huge crow problem to the magnitude ot tens of thousands and Auburn is not big. It's just like living the movie *The Birds* when you're there. Every year they try to deal with it with a crow shoot but all the bleeding heart animal rights activists protest and short circuit it.
Too bad because the farmers in the area are fed up with it.
If someone killed nuisance birds in Austin, oh well...
I prefer Grackles to Pigeons.