re: #579 Lynn B.
Unfortunately, yes. This is the first year they’ve had the nerve to come to the feeders, though. Grackles, starlings and blue jays are pigs but harmless. Brown-headed cowbirds are low-life parasitical scum.
Starlings are cockroaches with wings. The noise they make is hideous. Brown-headed cowbirds are a nuisance, but they are a rung above starlings.
Now sea gulls, if swarming rats could fly…
New York is planning a massive goose kill. Unfortunately they are just going to slaughter and landfill them, not process for food.