Birds, birds EVERYWHERE!

It was a short time after I got back from NY that I started noticing some dead starlings here and there. I didn't think anything of it until I kept noticing more and more of them. Then a whole stinking pile in our backyard! Sick!!! Jed finally told me that some man from the DEC came to the farm and fed the Starlings a "special" meal to help cut down on the population. If there are too many birds, they consume hundreds of dollars in cow feed, which obviously is bad. He said that it wouldn't harm other animals if they ingest the dead birds either. I had no idea there was such a thing or such a problem! I would have been upset, but they were just starlings, so I don't mind too much. Although it is kind of nasty to see birds and bird parts allllllll over and the dog always has a bird or part of a bird in her mouth! Ugh!


Three dead birds (one under the football....Izzy dragged that football home from somewhere, haha)




In our backyard. 7 dead birds in this picture. Jed said that before I got home there were two garbage bags full or more birds all over the backyard.



SICK!