Thursday Throwback: 1985 Scottsboro Blackbirds

It looks like something from an old horror movie.

For Our Thursday Throwback, we take a look at the bird menace of northwest Alabama 40 years ago.

Flocks of blackbirds plagued a Scottsboro neighborhood making life miserable for the families their.

This story did NOT have a happy ending for the birds.

Here are two reports from March of 1985.