witzend
Well-Known Member
The I-5 bridge across the Columbia River is inundated this time of year with starlings. (I can't stand starlings.) They ruin the paint and cause rust. The past several years they have been setting off cannon fire several times a day to disperse them. Obviously no cannon balls, but that's what they call these things. I could be wrong, but I believe they said yesterday on the news that in previous years the estimates were at 8,000 to 10,000 birds alighting at a time, and that it is now nearer 4,000. So they are adding more cannon fire. There has never been any report of birds flying into each other. They just dislike the sound and don't come back there to roost.