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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 399123" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>When I lived in Austin we had grackles that were that bad. It was truly awful to experience them. Everyone had to carry an umbrella or your head was covered wtih bird droppings (very gross, high in ammonia which discolored a few people's hair quite oddly - would NOT have believed that if I hadn't seen it in a dorm - mate). The entire city of Austin was a bird sanctuary which meant that NOTHING could be doen that might hurt the birds. Previously they all lived outside one of the girl's dorms across campus but their parents complained (the freshman sorority girls all lived there and all their parents complained) so they used loud fireworks to scare them off and they then roosted outside MY dorm (State Capitol bldg had done the same thing when they roosted there). When they would all get scared they would fly into each other and the buildings and cars and people and it was a DISASTER and truly awful to be around. They had to time efforts to make them move to when the fewest people would be around because it was actually dangerous to walk or drive when the birds all took flight.</p><p> </p><p>And this was NOT the numbers of birds in the flocks being described. I fully believe that if the birds were scared by something they could die off in these numbers. Various bad weather fronts can also contribute to this in several ways.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 399123, member: 1233"] When I lived in Austin we had grackles that were that bad. It was truly awful to experience them. Everyone had to carry an umbrella or your head was covered wtih bird droppings (very gross, high in ammonia which discolored a few people's hair quite oddly - would NOT have believed that if I hadn't seen it in a dorm - mate). The entire city of Austin was a bird sanctuary which meant that NOTHING could be doen that might hurt the birds. Previously they all lived outside one of the girl's dorms across campus but their parents complained (the freshman sorority girls all lived there and all their parents complained) so they used loud fireworks to scare them off and they then roosted outside MY dorm (State Capitol bldg had done the same thing when they roosted there). When they would all get scared they would fly into each other and the buildings and cars and people and it was a DISASTER and truly awful to be around. They had to time efforts to make them move to when the fewest people would be around because it was actually dangerous to walk or drive when the birds all took flight. And this was NOT the numbers of birds in the flocks being described. I fully believe that if the birds were scared by something they could die off in these numbers. Various bad weather fronts can also contribute to this in several ways. [/QUOTE]
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