LA GRANGE, Ky. - In northern Kentucky, it is like a scene like out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. There are birds everywhere.
The sky in La Grange nearly turns black as they fill the sky at sunset.
The birds arrived in the area on Thanksgiving and have returned every night since.
Ornithologist says several hundred thousand birds are in the flock and they are mostly European Starlings.
At first, the residents thought it was a wonder of nature. Now, they are angry because of what the "wonder of nature" keeps leaving behind.
Residents say the leavings of the birds is restricting their movements.
"I am held hostage in my house," Kelly Strausbaugh said.
They keep comparing it to Hitchcock's film, but experts say there is no reason to think this flock will attack.
"We have had no snow cover here this winter. It's been below freezing only a few times. And the birds are probably here because of mild weather," Brainard Palmer-Dall, an ornithologist, said.
Rather than waiting them out, Darlene Armes is fighting back. She has tried clapping, hitting a hammer on a pole and even a cannon. There's no projectile in the cannon, it just makes noise. It hasn't worked.
Hunters from Texas have offered to come and kill the birds, but the city and the mayor rejected that offer.
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