BY IAN CROUCH
The deaths of several birds at Cooks Hill has prompted an investigation by the Environment Protection Authority.
The EPA received a report from Newcastle Council of dead birds in Railway Street between the intersections of Bull and Swan Streets.
They found 7 birds including Magpies, Magpie Larks and Common Mynas.
An autopsy is under way to determine how they died.
It follows the deaths of hundreds of Corellas in a suspected poisoning at Carrington in March.
