“He goes, ‘you oughta leave those birds alone!'”

This guy was walking toward us."

“He goes, ‘you should probably leave those birds alone!'”

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But the story didn’t end there.

I’m like, ‘That’s the guy!'"

“I’m dear friends with him,” he said.

“It was just a misunderstanding.

He cares about the birds!

I call him bird man!”

The confrontation isn’t the first that Consuelos and Ripa have had with a neighborhood personality.

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