A homeowner was terrified after an hooded man with an axe chopped down a tree outside his home in a 'row over birdfeeders'.<br /><br />The three-storey tree was standing In a communal area outside a block of flats in Ilford, east London.<br /><br />Residents were horrified when they looked outside and witnessed a man in a tracksuit hacking down the tree with an axe - for five hours, they claim.<br /><br />Video shows him swinging at the branches - and pulling birdfeeders and decorations from the branches, and hurling them into a bin or stamping on them.<br /><br />Baffled locals have no idea what prompted the man's anger - but speculate he was annoyed by the birds, due to his targeted destruction of the feeders.
