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Old 11-06-2008, 09:16 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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I think their cute as pie. They remind me of little Heckle and Jeckles. They seem to have a lot of personality. Is their dung really that toxic? Wow, that's weird. Never heard of such a thing. Kind of a bummer. I suppose you folks know. I hope you're wrong. I was really wanting to like those funky little birds. I was thinking they would make a nice substitute for my beloved crows that I miss (cuz the raptors in Boston killed them all).

http://blogs.sun.com/hinkmond/resour...and_Jeckle.png

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Old 11-06-2008, 10:01 PM
 
Location: Norcross GA
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Okay thanks OP for this post! I swear I was at Blockbuster one evening and saw all those birds and about freaked out. I thought it was a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's BIRDS. I have never seen anything like it. I try to look away or my skin will start to crawl. They were migrating all over the grassy area off of 635 at McArthur day before yesterday. It really freaks me out.

I just wonder will they go away the colder it gets? I have never wanted to see winter but I do now.
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Old 11-07-2008, 07:46 AM
 
Location: The Big D
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I think their cute as pie. They remind me of little Heckle and Jeckles. They seem to have a lot of personality. Is their dung really that toxic? Wow, that's weird. Never heard of such a thing. Kind of a bummer. I suppose you folks know. I hope you're wrong. I was really wanting to like those funky little birds. I was thinking they would make a nice substitute for my beloved crows that I miss (cuz the raptors in Boston killed them all).

http://blogs.sun.com/hinkmond/resour...and_Jeckle.png
Yes, it is THAT TOXIC! One of our employees ended up in the hospital for almost a month and it took forever for doctors to figure out what he had. He is now permanently on meds due to exposure and breathing in toxic bird poop. He was pretty darn near death by the time they finally figured out what he had. I wish I could remember the name of the exact term they gave him.

Bird poop can also be fatal to dogs. Never leave dog food outside. It attracts the birds. They come to eat it and poop all over the place including on the dogs food dish and on the food. If the poop is toxic and the dog ingests it they can get very sick and can die from it.

Here are some links:
http://www.nixalite.com/PDFs/birddroppings.pdf

Bird Droppings - What you Don't Know Can Hurt you
(The "Histoplasmosis" sounds familiar to what I can recall about the guy we know that got very sick and ther symptoms sound just like what he had/has)

Disease Listing: Histoplasmosis General Information | CDC DFBMD
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Old 11-07-2008, 08:31 AM
 
Location: Lake Highlands (Dallas)
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That's it, we should kill all birds... (sarcasm due to the over dramatization of this issue)
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Old 11-07-2008, 08:36 AM
 
Location: The Big D
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That's it, we should kill all birds... (sarcasm due to the over dramatization of this issue)
LOL!!! Well, I LOVE birds. Give me the Cardinals, Blue Jays, Hummingbirds, etc anyday. Just them nasty blackbirds are AWFUL!!! And annoying as h-e-l-l. With the other birds you get a few and they don't attract 100's to one spot and create a mess like the blackbirds/grackles do.

You can have a wonderful yard full of the "pretty" birds and one blackbird shows up and runs the others off. The other birds do not stay around where the blackbirds congregate.
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Old 11-07-2008, 08:43 AM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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HA! Yes! I know, I just thought, can't they fly even more South? LOL! Thanks for the article!

They're permanent to the entire US South, but you might just be in a "fly south for the winter" transition zone. They are definitely permanent in the Houston area, year round. I'd be willing to bet you'll see them year-round. FWIW, they have the exact same grackles in Jamaica.

Never heard about deadly poop though.

Blue Jays are at least as aggressive as the Grackles.
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Old 11-07-2008, 08:54 AM
 
Location: Lake Highlands (Dallas)
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My wife says my poop is deadly, too.
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Old 11-07-2008, 10:31 AM
 
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I despise grackles. Ugly with a hideous noise. They usually start filtering into the DFW area in late September and by November they are in massive congregations of thousands. I don't know where they go all damn day though!!! I am looking out the panoramic view from my work computer and don't see a single one. But by 4:30 this afternoon they will be swarming in by the hundreds or thousands.

That is something I would like to know. Where do those things disappear to all day? And is there anyway to get them to stay there?
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Old 11-07-2008, 01:41 PM
 
Location: Forney Texas
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shoot them with a bb gun.
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Old 11-07-2008, 02:35 PM
 
Location: Carrollton, TX
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Are these the birds that sound kind of like an old-school camera flash?
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