A resident of Bristol has been given a special council order after their activities led to their home and street resembling a scene from the horror film The Birds.
The householder, who has not been named, threw large amounts of bread into her garden every single day.
The pigeons of the area in Bristol got used to the regular free food and came from miles around to gather on and near the house in Westbury-on-Trym.
Neighbours complained that flocks of birds, numbering more than 100 at times, would come to the garden banquet, and their homes and gardens resembled the worst scenes from the Alfred Hitchcock classic The Birds.
The 1963 Hitchcock classic is loosely based on a 1952 story by Daphne du Maurier.
The film started Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren, making her screen debut, and featured enormous swarms of birds, mainly crows, that begin to attack humans.
The householder, who has not been named, was served with a Community Protection Notice by an authorised council officer after she ignored a formal warning to stop.
Bristol City Council’s Neighbourhood Enforcement Team tried to persuade her to stop, gave her a warning to stop, and she didn’t.
“This was having a significant detrimental impact on her neighbours and the local environment,” a Neighbourhoof Enforcement Team spokesperson said.
The woman ignored the warnings, so the council issued her with a Community Protection Notice. A CPN is a formal notice served by an authorised council officer, and if someone handed one fails to comply, then they can be fined or taken to court.
Since being issued with the CPN, the feeding has stopped, and the birds are gradually dispersing.
A council spokesperson said the issue of over-feeding was not unique to this woman’s back garden in Westbury. There are two other similar cases ongoing elsewhere in Bristol at the moment.
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