May not even be illegal. In the mid-1990s, my family's longtime next door neighbors moved and a family from Utah bought their house. I was home from college for a weekend and used my 12 guage to clear out some birds that were trying to roost in a dead tree. The new neighbors called the law on me without even bothering to ask what I was doing or why I was doing it. They all poured out to see the action when the police showed up, but they probably weren't prepared for the cop, after speaking to me for a minute or two, to walk over to their house and fill them in on the fact that you could shoot shotguns anywhere in Brentwood so long as you were 100 yards from a structure. (I do not think that is the law anymore, should any of you be thinking about trying it.)