Actually we have a worse local critter problem around here...
There used to be a (very) few little parakeets in the park - the size of budgies and once in while you’d see a swoop in the air and a little flash of bright green among the trees, and hear a high picked chirp.
Then the tourists found them... now there are millions of the buggers - and they are huge now - swooping and crapping all over the place as gangs of gormless tourists stand with manky apples in their hands or on sticks to encourage these little feathered rats to them.
Not so bad you may think but they crowd the paths in specific places (where people jog) so you have to stop, swerve and dodge the birds/crowds (and I mean loads) tourists to get around or end up in the mud to avoid them. Every bloody day. And they all squawk like the little monsters that they are. And the birds make a racket too...
Why some people are shocked the a wee bird might just peck a finger when you offer food is a bit of a mystery to me. And why lure them in if your kids are a) going to panic and run screaming, or b) chase them (and the pigeons, swans, duck and geese) around like little hooligans (I don’t like birds but chasing them is cruel).
I have lived here 30 years and have never had so much bloody bird crap on me as I have in the last year.
Actually, the birds aren’t the problem critters...