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As sad as it is to destroy an entire species, sometimes it is necessary. When I moved back from California in 1997 my garden was filled with our local blue jays and pigeons. Today I rarely see our jays as they have been replaced by scrub jays that have migrated through California and Oregon and set up home here. Where once, my garden would welcome flocks of 50-100 of our slim local pigeons, they have permanently disappeared, replaced by swarms of fat alien ones. The only saving grace is the Cooper Hawk who comes into my garden to feast on them, though it would take dozens of hawks to control just my ‘visitors’.

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