Approaching an airfield inrange we pickup and transcribe a recorded message which describes current weather and field conditions. Important info like wind direction and velocity, temperature, cloud cover and visibility. Lately these broadcasts read like a book. They get longer over time with useless trivia like “Caution! Bird Activity in the vicinity of the airport”. BTW, what exactly is ‘bird activity’? Can’t they just say BIRDS? Further, why do they need to tell me this and what could I do if I saw one? Swerve?