BURLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — A manager of a 650-acre blueberry farm near Burlington says fields could lose three or four tons of berries a day to flocks of starlings.
That’s why the sky over Sakuma Brothers Farms is patrolled by falcons.
The farm contracts with a falconry business from Atascadero, Calif.,
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