The birds are amassing in Gainesville. With snow and unseasonably cold weather stretching as far south as Atlanta, a Hitchcock-like invasion of robins and cedar waxwings has descended on Alachua County, local ornithologists are reporting.
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As spectacular as the swarms may be, some are watching the migratory invasion with nervous apprehension. Local blueberry growers, for example, have had problems with the yearly visitors eating their crops in the past. Protecting against such swarms, while not a problem now, could become an issue later in the season, some say.

But for now, farmers like Ken Patterson of Island Grove Ag. Products near Hawthorne say they are simply watching the phenomenon, scratching their heads like everyone else.

"It hasn't been like Alfred Hitchcock," Patterson said of attacks on his blueberry operation.

"Yet."