Arkansas game officials probe mystery of falling birds
Arkansas game officials hope testing scheduled to begin Monday will solve the mystery of why up to 5,000 blackbirds fell from the sky just before midnight New Year’s Eve. … “Shortly after I arrived, there were still birds falling from the sky,” said commission wildlife officer Robby King in the statement.
Yeesh.In the movies, this typically precedes the appearance of Satan or Jesus or aliens, or something equally unfortunate. Let’s just hope nothing else weird happens in that area…
Ummmm…
State commission says dead fish now cover 20-mile section of Arkansas River
An Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesman says dead drum fish now cover a 20-mile section of the Arkansas River near Ozark.
Ah, crap. Well that’s got to be about the end of it, right?
Ummm…
Clues sought in Arkansas earthquake swarm
More than 500 measurable earthquakes have occurred in central Arkansas since September, and it’s unknown if they’ll stop anytime soon, seismologists say.
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How far is it from the earthquake swarm (wonderful term!) and the New Madrid epicenter?
Maybe the earthquakes are releasing gas pockets which are killing the birds and fish through asphyxiation?
The gas pocket idea actually makes sense…but why would it kill only red winged blackbirds, a few starlings, and drumfish?
And what exactly were a mass of red winged blackbirds doing flying around at midnight?
I think it’s an omen concerning Obama (The Blackbird) and his socialist leanings (red wings); Marine R. Lee Ermey (Drumfish); and the Clintons (Arkansas).
I’m not sure what the omen means, but if I were the president, I’d stay far away from Hillary, who has a lean and hungry look, and even further away from The Old Gunny, who loves him not:
http://www.nhgazette.com/2010/12/29/iconic-marine-sets-career-on-fire/
Charles Fort, where are you?
http://www.forteana.org/index.html
Well, if it’s all confined to Arkansas, do we really have a problem ?
“why would it kill only red winged blackbirds, a few starlings, and drumfish?”
If it hit a flock of blackbirds, I wouldn’t expect any other birds to be mixed in with that flock. You’re right about the drumfish though; if other stuff is still alive in that area, then I guess it can’t be gas pockets.
Unless drumfish are especially susceptible to methane, carbon dioxide, sulfur compounds, Old Ones, whatever.
Now, two new facts have emerged; besides the red-winged blackbirds and starlings, grackles are also involved… and the numbers of dead birds is far greater than first reported; with the total number of birds dead now somewhere between 4,000-5,000.
Radius of the bird deaths is around a mile, and I can’t really picture a two-mile wide lightning bolt coming down from the clouds without someone noticing it. 🙂
Reports of the bird corpses say that they have noticeable trauma on them, so my best guess at the moment is they got sucked up to high altitude in some sort of severe updraft where they either were struck by hail aloft, or physically iced up like an aircraft would – and being frozen to death, then fell from the sky – hitting the ground pretty hard due to their wings folding up as they died in flight.
That still doesn’t explain what they were doing flying around at midnight though, which sounds like they were migrating somewhere when the hypothetical storm updraft got them.
Do birds sometimes do a unscheduled migration when abnormal weather conditions destroy their ability to survive or feed in the area they are in?
I’m sure hoping it isn’t some sort of pre-earthquake odd animal behavior like the Chinese have noted and successfully used in their earthquake predictions (speculation is that this is due to changes in the geomagnetic field as stresses build up on the fault line that some animals can sense), because unlike the San Andreas fault line we don’t have much info on what the San Madras fault line acts like before it lets loose; and last time it did that it was so severe that it actually changed the course of rivers by the massive total displacement of the ground.
If funny flashes in the night sky are noted in Arkansas in the days to come, that’s the time to get very worried indeed.
The same thing happen in Louisiana this week, yes it was not has many but 500+ birds is a lot too. Just seems odd to me. I do live in AR and have never heard of anything like the things that have been happing here lately. A bunch of small earthquakes at least one a week (we don’t have them here), birds and fish dying in the masses. Who knows what else has or will happen…. I just hope they figure it out soon.
Also going on in Sweden
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/01/05/sweden.bird.deaths/index.html?iref=obnetwork
The Art Bell crowd will call it a pre-Pole Shift event.