…much to the dismay of the folks in Florida growing blueberries commercially.
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
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I saw an interesting article from 2009 where a farmer used a falcon to keep them off the blueberries. Seemed to work better than fireworks or cannons. It’s an interesting dilemma.
I manage a blueberry farm in central Florida. While birding, I may see a flock of 20, maybe even 75 or so. At work, I will see 250 on a slow day. The largest flock I have seen at a single time this year was estimated to me more than 800 birds. That was a LOT of blueberries!