On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:25:03 GMT, Harold Robbins
wrote:

Austin around N. Lamar and Rundberg Lane had an incredibly heavy
collection of hail about the size of a quarter. THere were mounds of it
collected in low areas the next morning at 8:30 of almost 18 inches
deep. Where it collected from falling off some business roofs, it was
about seven inches deep. Throughout northern Austin there were shredded
leaves and twigs everywhere.

That must have been the area where the birds were reported killed. I
did some work on a ranch west of Lake Travis that was hit by a hail
storm with really big hail several years ago. The hail shredded the
trees and killed about half of them, especially the junipers and cedar
elms. It must have done terrible damage to the birds, also. Even a
year later most of the birds were cavity nesters like wrens and
titmouse that might have been somewhat protected.

Rusty Mase