Remember that movie ‘The Birds’?

Little animals have been creating big problems around here lately.

Two were the small dogs that got loose on the H-1 freeway Thursday and tied up traffic during the morning rush while police worked to capture them. One was hit by a car and killed.

Others are the hundreds of pigeons bedeviling the neighbors of a Kailua homeowner who insists on feeding the wild birds throughout the day — for the past six years — despite the mess and stench they have been creating.

How bad is it? One of the neighbors was given a permit by the state Department of Land and Natural Resources to shoot any of the birds that land on his property, and over the last 18 months has shot more than a hundred of them. That bad.

The moral of these episodes? Keep your dogs close and hope you get considerate neighbors — or can work things out with them if they’re not.

The Divine Miss M back on Broadway

Bette Midler, who leaped from drama studies at the University of Hawaii to Broadway nearly five decades ago, when she joined the replacement cast of "Fiddler on the Roof," is making an encore.

Opening today on Broadway, Midler, 67, portrays the late Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers in the new one-woman comedy monologue, "l’ll Eat You Last."

"In the play Sue says, ‘Life is one long audition,’ and I can identify with that," Midler told The . "Sue and I were always on the line: Will people like you? Will they ask you back? Did I make the cut? That’s always on my mind."

Now that she’s been asked back, that should put her mind well at ease.