 Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Woodruff and welcome to the Fort Report. Have you seen egrets in your neighborhood? They're fascinating to watch, but they're very messy creatures. They will literally take over a tree if you don't scare them away. They can build dozens of nests in one single tree, and you can imagine when they start having their babies and they stay for all summer long, the amount of poop on your yard. It covers your mailbox, it covers your driveway, it covers everything. Now is a great time for you to prevent egrets and other migrating birds from nesting in your neighborhood. So the thing to do now is to check your trees, see if you have any old nests, because they will come back to an old nest. Clear out those sticks, get ready, trim your trees and try to prevent the birds from finding your neighborhood and your yard an attractive habitat. Once the birds build the nests and lay an egg, you cannot touch the birds because they're protected by an international treaty. The number one thing that you can do to help prevent egret nesting is to trim your trees. The birds like a dense canopy with lots, very little like showing through. So if you can lighten up your trees, you don't have to butcher them, trim your trees, don't let the trees touch. They like it when they're like this and they can walk across them. It's a job you have to do with your neighbors. Everyone has to work at the same time to do it. If you don't have an active neighborhood association, please give the city a call. The neighborhood education office can help you find contacts in your neighborhood if there is an association or help you start one if you haven't got one that's active already. For more information about egrets, visit the city website or contact the neighborhood education office. Here's a look at other events happening in and around Fort Worth in the next few weeks. For a listing of more events and city meetings, you always can check the calendar at the city's website.