FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: In California, a homeowner is having an invasion of a feathered kind. Thousands of chimney swifts have taken over a family's home in Palm Desert. Kathleen Mitts (ph) with affiliate station KMIR has the story.</s>KATHLEEN MITTS, KMIR CORRESPONDENT: They may be harmless, but these birds are better off outside than in. Debbie Holbert called 911 after the house filled up with the little black creatures.</s>DEBBIE HOLBERT: Put in a movie in. My daughter was in the livingroom. And she goes, "Ah, there's birds in here." And I came in and I saw three. And then all of a sudden, there were 30. Then there were 300 of them. And it was just like, "Ah."</s>MITTS: They're on the floor, on the ceiling, hanging from the walls. These creepy looking birds are everywhere. (on camera): The only way to get these birds out of the house is to take a broom and hit them, and oh my God. (voice-over): If you think that I was scared, think about the poor people inside when the house was full of flapping wings.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah, we just tried to pick them up. Well, maybe they're harmless, but they, you know, -- it's kind of spooky I guess. You got things hitting you in the head and landing on your back. And you know, poor little thing's got mixed up somewhere.</s>MITTS: Neighbors watched on, as the Florida birds took a dive right down into the chimney.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A swarm, it was a black cloud. Not hundreds, but thousands.</s>HOLBERT: All the neighbors helped, came over. We tried to -- they were coming in the fireplace, tried to block it off, catching them, throwing them outside, brooming them. I mean, the window panes were solid.</s>MITTS: Kathleen Mitt, KMIR-6 News.
In California, Homeowner Having Invasion of Feathered Kind