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Uploaded by on Jan 27, 2012

Residents in a Kentucky town are saying "Get the flock out of here" to thousands of black birds that fill the sky each night.

At dusk, the birds take flight in La Grange, Ky., and create what some locals describe as a "cloud of birds," according to TV station WAVE. The birds nest down in a wooded area for the night and depart each morning in a huge pack, reports said.

Fine-feathered friends, they're not. Residents complain that they're constantly cleaning up after the avian arrivistes, who started showing up last November in the community northeast of Louisville. Nearly everyone has heard their town compared to Alfred Hitchcock's classic film "The Birds."

To protect themselves from bird poop, some people have begun carrying umbrellas, even on sunny days, CNN reports.

The birds' unexplained presence has allegedly coincided with a surge in respiratory ailments, according to one woman who spoke with WAVE.

While nobody is sure why the birds migrated to La Grange, wildlife experts told CNN that the behavior of flying clockwise in large groups is called murmuration and is common among starlings.

In an effort to scare off the unwelcome newcomers, a married couple blasts a noisy air canon. But the birds keep coming back.
Earlier this month, hundreds of birds mysteriously died in Gilbertsville, Ky. -- about 200 miles away from La Grange.

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  • instead of complaining, grab an airrifle, and pop some pellets right through the swarm. i´m pretty sure you will hit more then one. and if the land on a tree, keep sniping them.

  • @caessarion Scientists out here think they God, these people think they know all walks of life.......but im a little confused what dose this has to do with Bible??? :/

  • @meka1star1dream Forbidden Archaeology - 02-08-12 start at an hour or hour 25 if ur feeling lazy. scientists are afraid of truth. million and millions of years old

  • wow!!

  • @meka1star1dream how can it be holy with lies in it, the koran is stupid too

  • @caessarion um okay......... are the four Gospels in the Holly Bible???

  • Cmon I used to live in Mass. Was there in the Fall. We Have A Wooded area. They Go There.then IF YOU FOOLS dont kill em they will come home--SICK-Then Been Here Summer and Autumn for YEARS NENER once anyone said OOH where Ill Now PULEASE----Come home Birds,,,My Goodness. Bible Prophesy ?? Wekk Prophet if your wrong the Bible Says NEVER to listen to u WHY? You Be a FAKE.not my words its in the BOOK you quoted-ODD eh'.

  • @meka1star1dream read any of the four gopels youll find it. Each person has to save themself with the truth. I think we night have to go with aliens

  • @caessarion um i dont think he him self actually said this, most things that man say in scripture is not true.........but by the way no man knows when the son of man returns. thats the reason why a lot of people are so confused because we are sittng here trying to figure out when, Yes its soon, he will comes soon but dont obessed with it. Just follow his ways and dont get deceive know the truth.......

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