When I heard a brief bit on the radio this morning about the City of Ft. Worth asking residents to take up their shotguns against the yearly invasion of the grackles I was surprised.  Given the usual GFW’s who run the damn place it was definitely out of character for them.

However, I now find that the real story is actually in keeping with their nature.  It seems they’re only going to allow people to use bird bombs and the people participating have to get special training (some sort of pyrotechnic permit to use “cracker shells”).  Oh well…  I should have known it was too good to be true.

Those shells just send the birds elsewhere, so they’ll be somebody else’s problem.  A dead grackle will crap and swoop no more.