https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/11/18/pge-blames-birds-for-tri-valley-power-outages/

DUBLIN — Until now, the public has been largely in the dark about why 7,000 customers throughout the Tri-Valley have repeatedly lost power at seemingly random times throughout the last few months. According to a city council agenda filed ahead of Tuesday’s meeting, PG&E blamed birds for disrupting the region’s power supply.

Tamar Sarkissian, a PG&E spokeswoman, said via email that bird-caused outages are “not something we have seen often in this area before, but have experienced it elsewhere.”