LYNN – Refusing to give up her guilty pleasure of feeding birds and wildlife in the city, the self-professed, “bird lady” was back in court Wednesday for two criminal complaints lodged against her by city officials.Claire Butcher, of 19 Wyoma St., arrived at Lynn District Court around noon, flanked by two witnesses to support her actions, and insisted that her actions are legal and not a health hazard.The complaints – one for failure to abate a public nuisance and the other for violating a city ordinance prohibiting bulk feeding of animals – were the subject of a clerk magistrate hearing. Butcher adamantly denied any guilt regarding both charges.”I feed them on my own patio, they eat and then they fly off,” she said. “I pay over $5,000 a year in taxes and I feed them in my own yard.”Not so, according to city attorney Vincent Phelan, who said Butcher is in fact violating a city ordinance against feeding animals and is in “absolute denial” that she is in the wrong.”The city is most likely going to ask for a court order for this to be heard in front of a judge because we’ve had her in court three times now and this is absurd,” he said. “We don’t really want the money, we just want her to stop.”Butcher, who said she is “fighting for God’s animals,” received a $300 fine on Sept. 9 for feeding raccoons, rats, pigeons and squirrels in bulk. The fine remains unpaid.In 2005, Butcher received a $200 fine for feeding pigeons, which she paid, but had a second $50 ticket for feeding birds dismissed last year.On top of the criminal complaints and fines, Lynn Police officer Andrew Beaver caught Butcher feeding birds Aug. 30 at Flax Pond around 5 a.m.According to a police report, Beaver said he saw Butcher throwing pieces of crumbled bread while standing next to piles of bread roughly 12 inches in height and asked her to stop. Beaver said Butcher became angry and denied that there was any law in place prohibiting her from doing so.After explaining that there is an ordinance in effect, Beaver said he went back to the police station, printed out a copy of the ordinance and hand delivered it to Butcher.In addition, Beaver told Butcher she was also violating the park rule by visiting it during restricted hours from dusk until dawn, and was essentially trespassing.Phelan said police are contemplating filing a no trespass order against Butcher to keep her out of public parks.Taken aback by Butcher’s repeated actions, abutter Mark Collins said he contacted Inspectional Services Department inspector Daniel Dean because he is tired of cleaning up bird waste that is the result of hundreds of birds relieving themselves on his property on a daily basis.”She (Butcher) puts on a mask as a sweet old lady, but she is mentally insane and really an evil person,” he said. “My gutters have two inches of bird waste in them and it’s disgusting.”Collins said he has considered filing his own charges against Butcher, but realized it would cost thousands of dollars, so instead, he decided to contact the Department of Fisheries and Game and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on the matter.”It’s just ridiculous,” he said. “She has yelled and sworn at me whenever I’ve tried to talk to her about the problem, so now I’m trying to get whomever I can to listen to me and get this resolved.”