What the heck is mother nature doing????

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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First, 1000 dead blackbirds fall out of the sky. :eek:

Then a couple days later… 100,000 dead fish in a river. WTF :confused: :eek:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/02/arkansas.fish.kill/index.html?hpt=T2

Two separate regions of my home state. Man that’s just weird.
Tough time to be a fish or bird.

I hope we don’t wake up with several thousand dead people next. :eek:

One of the attractions of my home state is the natural environment, forests, Ozark Mountains and tourism. Pollution is much lower here than other areas. We, also have a lot less jobs. :frowning: If the dead fish/birds continue, I guess the EPA will have to start checking.

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From what I heard on New England Cable News, they think people killed the birds accidentally. The theory is that they were over-stressed (or hit by?) by fireworks.

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The current theory on the bird kill is lightning hitting the flock or an upper atmosphere hail storm. The fishkill is a normal annual occurrence, but the kill numbers are higher than normal.

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Having just revisited the cattle mutes thread in order to nominate it here, I must conclude that aliens are the only possible explanation.

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Aren’t they tasty when baked in a pie?

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The Seventh Seal has Broken. (Rev 8:1)
Enjoy the silence, baby. :cool:

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Last week I was walking on a beach in Florida. On one section we saw thousands of dead crabs. They were all the same species. It was weird.

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From what I’ve read it was actually 4,000 - 5,000 dead birds:
http://http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/03/what-made-thousands-of-birds-fall-from-the-sky/?hpt=T2"]From what I’ve read it was actually 4,000 - 5,000 dead birds: http://http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/03/what-made-thousands-of-birds-fall-from-the-sky/?hpt=T2

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Sorry for my fucked up link still getting used to this iPad.

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The lightning or hail is more plausible than fright. Birds are used to being frightened. Those black birds tend to swarm in tight mass formations. Concentrated hail could take a bunch out at once. One article said they showed signs of physical damage. I would think lightning damage would be immediately diagnosed because of spot burns.

Fish: This phenomenon happens occasionally. Maybe somebody tested a depth charge in the river.

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It’s happened again, this time with 500 birds.

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“Mother” Nature ain’t a nice old grandmother; she’s a cold, hard bitch, and don’t you forget it.

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Sing a song of sixpence
a pocket full of Rye.
Four and Twenty black birds
Falling from the sky.

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Is it usually from a drop in dissolved oxygen?

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My coworker is convinced that both incidents were deliberate acts of eco-terrorism. He said, “If the terrorists say they’re going to kill more animals, what can we do?”

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Local radio reports the drumhead kill was a disease affecting only a species, and the blackbirds flew into each other or objects when frightened by fireworks.

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Was Shaun Ryder in the immediate vicinity at the time?

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I’d bet it’s someone with a 1920’s style death ray.

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That rules out fireworks then.

I never realized there were that many birds in the air. That’s a lot in a small area.

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Not sure how credible this link is but it was on my Facebook tonight…