I'll just toss my two birds into the blackbird pie

Any advance on 26 blackbirds in the pie? I'd gladly make it a hundred pigeons from this side of the Pond. Apparently there was some talk of classifying them as vermin, which would have made a lot of sense as regards city pigeons. I hear Venice is even worse than London, though.

Go the extra mile with one step
It's a good phrase, but I still wouldn't use it in lieu of "kill two birds with one stone". For one thing it has no "two", often a vital ingredient.

I suspect that the human population would profit from a little predation
Nature has Her ways. For instance, we had a very near miss from an asteroid recently:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2056000/2056403.stm

But then, I might just get run over by a bus.

Cheery Fisk