The Birds..

[Max Power]

not the band.. the actual birds. Our town has been invaded by a gazillion migraters. This morning (6am) I awoke to the sound of what had to ba a million birds chirping. Im not sure what kind they are but I suspect I should find out before relatives ask me.
Every tree in our neighborhood (50?) was filled with birds. It is quite amazing when they take off and the whole sky for as far as you can see is filled with them. It is somewhat surreal.

[flippedcanvas]

Maybe the end............is close!

[Blaze]

Always think about that movie whenever I see birds out like that.

[Max Power]

I do too Blaise. The noise was deafening.

[Colorado Sun]

Hey there John Muir! What kind of birds were they?

-Sun

[Max Power]

This picture doesnt fully show the gravity of the situation.. but its an attempt. A gazillion birds folks.

[suttree]

is that more than a brazilian?

[HighPlainsDrifter]

I want to say passenger pigeons, but as far as I know they're long gone. Pioneer accounts of the mid/late 19th century in my area often reference the huge flocks of them that would pass through seasonally; they'd be so thick they'd virtually black out the sky. They caused pioneer farmers a lot of trouble until unchecked hunting with the incentive of government bounties pretty much wiped them out. I'd imagine the pigeon phenomena was a lot like what Turd is describing.

[El Santo]

I'd say just start shooting at them. I'm pretty sure there'll be no issue if your just shooting the ones on your own land. Don't shoot to kill...shoot to wound. This way...they'll go back and tell their bird buddies about what happened. Word gets around...especially with migratory birds.

[Max Power]

HPD.. please.. Mr. Ferguson.

Good idea Jesse.
Ive taken another approach and released 10,000 bird eating cobras in to the north Iowa environment. You could ask me where I got them but it would be meaningless.
Humans should be ok as long as they see my note on the bulletin board at HY-Vee telling them of the cobras and how to prevent attack by wearing leather pants and splashing themselves with deer semon. Of course this means stay out of the woods as the deer semon presents an entirely different problem. I think we have all experienced an over active doe in our lives.

[paulhead]

I live near a field and have had this everyday for the past couple of weeks when I come home. The noise is un-Godly and the birds fly away when I pull in the driveway then come back and land in my front yard and laugh at me because I'm out numbered. I wish I knew what they were laughing at because that can't be it. I've been spending a lot of evenings crying lately.