As if turkeys weren't enough, now a cockatoo is terrorizing one Brookline street

you get the, uh, the um, the, you get the *big yellow crest!*" Yeah, that's it! The Big Yellow Crest! That's what I'm talking about! Yeah! Dally with the best, you get The Crest! Eff those fugly turkeys, with their dangly-wattly things, all scurrying away from the Thanksgiving hatchet. Chu-uh-uh-umps! The CREST!"

Interestingly, I never got a call on this one; the bird club I'm a member of usually gets loose bird calls (or facebook messages) for things like this. The method for catching a bird as in plain sight as this one tends to be relatively simple: fill a super soaker with water and some baby shampoo, and when the bird's on the ground feeding, shoot it. It won't be able to fly back up because the soap will help the water soak into its feathers, and you can catch it with a towel.

And yes, it will freeze to death if not caught- perhaps sooner than winter, even. I'd go up myself and try tomorrow if I wasn't already busy...and if I didn't think that these people who allegedly want the bird gone would yell at me to get out of their yards while I tried to help them.

Dino is likely after bugs - silverfish or termites.

He might be her Early Warning System.