Brickbat: For the Birds
new neighbor moved in. The neighbor complained to local officials, who fined Martell $200 for feeding wildlife. Martell reduced the amount he feeds the birds and moved the feedings to his front yard. But a few weeks later, he got a summons for nine more charges. It seems that local officials had been covertly spying on him and caught him continuing to feed the birds.
Brad Martell has been feeding birds in the backyard of his Melbourne, Australia, home for 20 years. Then a