[BC] TV tower kills birds

[cld@admin.umass.edu]

I've experienced this at a 5 tower array in CT. I was there for about 2 hours. 
For some reason the tower that was center, and incidently closest to both the 
transmitter building and my car, was loaded with obviously inebriated 
blackbirds. My black car was a lighter shade of purple when I got out. I 
couldn't believe the coverage. They did a good job. The station very nicely 
picked up the tab on a car wash for me.

It changed my perception of that McCartney song forever.

Chuck

Quoting Tom Taggart <tpt at eurekanet.com>:
 there are the drunken blackbirds.  Talk about "birdies in your signal."   
> They would go eat the wild grapes at the nearby wildlife santuary on an  
> island in the Ohio river, then decide that my tower is a great place to  
> err..., let things work their way through.  When the grapes get overripe,  
> they sometimes seem to have a hard time perching on the tower, antenna, or  
> anything else. Nothing like pulling into the parking lot and trying to  
> dodge a pie-eyed blackbird: "Blackbird singing in the dead of night..stay  
> away from the roof of my car!"
>