I hate that her HOA has been SO reluctant to listen to things. Though it might be worth seeing if other people would be willing to sign off on pro-bird initiatives! There were a few people who'd previously complained about birdseed hulls "looking dirty" under the trees, but there are likely people on the other side who are happy to have birds around!

Our city does mostly have pretty good climate initiatives, though there've been a few points of contention. (They agree to plant x number of new trees per year! ...But cut down a ton of well-established ones for no clear reasons.) But still... it would be worth looking into ways to try and make certain areas more bird and other wildlife friendly. We have SOME parks where that's already the case, but others that could be far better!

Ugh. So frustrating when people largely make bad decisions on what they do with their land. We're in an area with a lot of contention between people who remember when this was more of a border between suburban and rural, who have bigger lots and no HOAs and keep chickens and feed the birds and grow a vegetable garden... vs. the people who moved here to buy a million-dollar huge house on a tiny lot, who want all the animals (both wild and domestic) gone because they smell bad and are "dangerous" or "gross", and are glad the HOA keeps up "standards". It's frustrating.
But uuuuugh, the poorly-farmed topsoil just blowing away reminds me of the more rural area I went to college in. That was a FREQUENT issue up there.