We had a concert the first night that they started attacking us.

I kind of hear like a flutter and then a giant squawk right at the back of my head and my hair's up.

God, what's that? And, um... Oh, it was... It was bad. We would just completely start diverting our actions going all the way around

stage right just so we could avoid them.

You just seated the territory to them?

Yeah, kind of.

Once it makes eye contact with you, it freaks out.

We've been hearing Stuart Conlin

from the Theater Department of the Wilmet Illinois Park District

and Allison Dornegan, she's the artistic director of theater

programming for the Will Met Center for the Arts.

And the vicious menace they were facing was werewolves.

Was tiny birds who had built their nest on the park district stage.

Red-winged monsters.

Blackbirds.

Red-wing blackbirds.

They're just red-wing blackbirds. They're not, the real birds not monsters.

Every time you look away, they keep coming down.

Allison and Stuart knew they had to do something.

And Stewart remembered something,

something from about 20 seconds ago.

Once it makes eye contact with you,

...