That scares me about earthquakes, David, but I'm trying to find a correlation to that and birds. I can sort of see it with the fish, but birds?
And with all the earthquakes in California, I've not heard of them killing birds. Maybe they have, but I'm not aware of that happening.
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
They're PC birds and their hard drives crashed.
Or their dongle slipped out.
It's Bush's fault.
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
According to reports, a whopping 80,000 to 100,000 dead drum fish washed up on the shores of the Arkansas River after the single species likely died of disease. Just one day later, thousands of blackbirds began dropping dead from the sky in Arkansas. While there may appear to be a frightening connection, officials are confident the drum fish died of disease, as only that single species was affected, whereas the blackbirds have shown signs of severe physical trauma.
I'm thinking someone dumped something nasty in the river. No way is this a coincidence.
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
We found three dead birds, one of them a female red cardinal, in our yard this past weekend. Encephalitis or bird flu?
Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
Maybe the bires are like the canary in the coal mine. Ya know, I used to see way more frogs out here around the house when we first moved to Tacoma. Dead frogs don't make as big of a statement as dead birds. You really don't notice it as much.
Posted by W. R. Pickett (Member # 3842) on :
It's from secret government testing of chemicals, and rampant the overuse of herbicides and pesticides. Also the dumping of other various toxins that's been going on for the last 70+ years...
Posted by David Wright (Member # 111) on :
quote:Originally posted by W. R. Pickett: It's from secret government testing of chemicals, and rampant the overuse of herbicides and pesticides. Also the dumping of other various toxins that's been going on for the last 70+ years...
Well, that settles it I guess.
Posted by Dennis Kiernan (Member # 12202) on :
"Such an earthquake would most likely affect the cities of St. Louis, MO, Memphis, TN and Little Rock, AR. . . " All three where I've got or had relatives living,
In my neighborhood in Frisco, all the birds disappeared about a year and a half ago and have not returned since. We used to have hundreds of birds of all kinds within sight of the house all the time. Then one day they were all gone. There are still plenty in other neighborhoods near here, tho.
Posted by David Wright (Member # 111) on :
Don't take it personally Dennis.
Posted by Bill Diaz (Member # 2549) on :
I was sent something unsettling about this in an e-mail -- having to do with deadly phosgene gas.
If the report is correct, I would be worried sick if I was anywhere near the Arkansas River. More importantly why has this not hit the national news media in a full tilt way. I originally saw it on the Today show, but it was no huge deal as it was reported. As Ray mentioned this also involved 100,000 fish. But just 1 kind of fish and 1 kind of bird?
Man it's almost impossible to find truth in stuff like this.
Posted by bill riedel (Member # 607) on :
Something strange going on in New Jersey. We feed the birds every day and there is a mocking bird that always shows up first and then many sparrows and starlings along with black birds. Just this morning for the first time ever, the mocking bird went crazy. No matter how many other birds (and there were at least fifty),he would continually swoop down and chase the others. This never happened before. Bill
Posted by David Wright (Member # 111) on :
I am sensing something biblical happening here. Just saying.
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
We're all gonna die.
Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
Bill R...that is normal behavior for the mockingbird...birding has been my hobby since I was a kid...they are a very aggressive species...because this was the first time you witnessed it does not mean it has not happened before when you were not viewing...and undoubtedly it has because it is common behavior for mockingbirds...you can research it yourself...so don't make anything of your mockingbird's behavior...he's just being a mockingbird...I've seen it time and again...in fact I've been dive bombed myself numerous times by this quite accomplished songster.
[ January 06, 2011, 07:27 PM: Message edited by: Rusty Bradley ]
Posted by William DeBekker (Member # 3848) on :
It is official and True as everything is true on the internet.
According to USA Today:
It was someone shooting off professional grade fireworks in a residential district, scaring the night-blind birds out of their roost into a 25-mph flight that ran them into houses, signs and even the ground, says Karen Rowe, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission ornithologist.
Rowe confirmed the cause of death after getting back results from extensive necropsies done on the animals and examining the pattern the birds were found in. Both were consistent with their theory that a startled flock flew up, then quickly back down to find safety and, unable to see at night, hit the ground and other objects at full speed.
As for the Fish Death.. Sorry that was my Fault.. Was doing some Winter Kayaking and before we went I had some Mexican Food so one thing leads to another and I was too lazy to get out of the water.. Well the Methane Gas must of created a Toxic Heavy Bubble flowing down the Arkansas some 1000 miles and it must have hit a tree and POPed Killing all those Bottom Feeders.
Hmmm.. Wonder if this might work with all the Bottom Feeder Sign Makers.. We'll do some tests and get back to you all on that. My Initials aren't WMD for nothing.. Willy's Massive Discharge.
[ January 06, 2011, 07:53 PM: Message edited by: William DeBekker ]
Posted by David Wright (Member # 111) on :
Ever been dive bombed by a blujay Rusty?
Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
Bill D...I can comment only to the Arkansas bird kill...I know nothing of the fish kill...but I'm not about to announce the end of the world as yet because of dead birds in Ark....a reasonable and logical explanation exists for the bird kill there....and it was more than 1 kind of bird found dead...though most of the 3,000 dead birds were redwinged blackbirds...also grackles and starlings were found...these guys often flock together...that's normal...some facts will help to dispel the hype...the event happened New Year's Eve as people began shooting off fireworks...the known large flocks of birds that had roosted in the area were scared off their roosts...confused and flying blind into the night and staying below the fireworks they unknowingly flew into houses, trees, each other and whatever else killing themselves...many birds were found stumbling around on the ground who had only injured themselves...don't know what is mysterious about this...I would be interested to learn what facts will come forward as to the other events mentioned but I see no reason to connect them to the Ark. bird kill.
Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
David...bluejays are another aggressive species...and the answer is yes.
Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
William...that must have been some bubble Posted by Michael Clanton (Member # 2419) on :
last year I started watching a TV show called "Flash Forward"- in one of the early episodes, a bunch of birds mysteriously died, much like the ones here in AR.... don't know what to do with that, just thought it was weird...
Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" was a pretty cool movie...I think they were blackbirds too...I'm starting to see a connection. Posted by Dennis Kiernan (Member # 12202) on :
Gee, Glenn, I had no idea you were so young!
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
Not bad for 48. Posted by bruce ward (Member # 1289) on :
Too bad the cant do this at the white house, house of representatives, senate and all the democrats that choose that sitting on their a$$es are better than pulling their weight
Posted by Michael Clanton (Member # 2419) on :
BREAKING NEWS: Just in: "Arkansas researchers report that the birds that fell from the sky were dropped by Arkansas Razorback receivers.
(for those of you that don't follow college football- this was from the Sugar Bowl game this week- haha)
Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
Michael...at least we have an explanation for the dead birds...but there is no explanation why major college recievers can drop that many passes right in their hands. Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :
and what about the 2 million dead fish in Maryland....hmmmmm? I dunno...something weird might be happenin' here on earth....2012 isn't far and they have said it will be gradual. could we be in the beginning stages of a polar shift? dodododo dodododo
Posted by Len Mort (Member # 7030) on :
Do the words COVER UP come to mind?
Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
Len..."COVER UP"...yeah when I went to bed last night.
[ January 08, 2011, 07:34 PM: Message edited by: Rusty Bradley ]
Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
"Blackbirds dyin' in the dead of night" Was it music related..?
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
It's the internet's fault. Really!!! Not for the die offs, but the fact that the information spreads through the internet to the entire world. Scientists claim that these die offs are very common, especially amongst heavily populated species, and estimate a die off like this about every other day in North America alone.
back when I was a kid, there was a whole bunch of birds that fell dead like that - they were everywhere- come to find out, it was because my neighbor friend and I had gotten new BB guns for Christmas- weird, huh?
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
Down on da bayou. The wintering birds would literally bend down tree branches while roosting. The flock would fly over and block out the sky. A tree would have thousands of birds roosting. You can walk up to it at night and pick birds as if they were fruit.
During the day those black birds could strip a rice field bare in an hour. At night we would go up to a roost and strike the tree making the birds flush. They would crash into every thing and get hurt and killed. Next day there would be hundred of them laying around dead and dying.
This dead bird deal is nothing new. We experienced it every year. This is just another case of the media stirring up the crap..
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
@ Michael Clanton
I used a Daisy Powerline 880. What did you guys use?
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