“You can fly your hawk, scare away the pest species and get the job done without there being corpses laying around.”-gct

[freeradical]

It is a perennial late-game conversation starter at Giants home games: “How do the gulls know to swarm to the ballpark during the ninth inning?”

But for team administrators, the flocks of trash-seeking birds are less an enigma than a serious nuisance that has been escalating since the waterfront ballpark opened in 2000.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/us/24bcshort.html?hp&gwh=668ECF8333ACEE77A699AD09F8449402