Power of Coincidence

[MTI]

Massive Bird Deaths Due to Noise?

In an unrelated event, a major fish kill was reported on the Arkansas river, also on New Year's Day, says Stephens. About 80,000 to 100,000 dead freshwater drum were found along a 20-mile stretch of the river.

[RichC]

Creepy !

Sounds like the beginning of a really bad movie.

[pj67coll]

Strange indeed. I'm thinking the culprit is the cause of the numerous loud bangs heard just before the event. Probably some kind of firework or revelry related thing.

- Peter.

[Fulcrum525]

Originally Posted by pj67coll

Strange indeed. I'm thinking the culprit is the cause of the numerous loud bangs heard just before the event. Probably some kind of firework or revelry related thing.

- Peter.

No no no it HAD to be an Aurora spy plane!




(Come on conspiracy buffs what else have you got?)

[tbomachines]

Originally Posted by Fulcrum525

No no no it HAD to be an Aurora spy plane!




(Come on conspiracy buffs what else have you got?)

No no no, far too complicated. Here is from the story:

causing them to fly into buildings and other obstacles, a state ornithologist said.

Clearly they are islamic militants, perhaps taking part in some sort of training exercise. If we ignore the signs now we could face the consequences. Tune into Fox News for more information!

[MTI]

No Connection, Except for the Dead Birds Part

In the latest incident early this week, some 500 birds were discovered scattered on a rural road in Louisiana's Pointe Coupee Parish, 300 miles south of the Arkansas site. Officials there are stumped as to what caused the birds to plunge to their death

[Txjake]

Also large amount of dead birds found in Kentucky. Conspiracy? no. Weather? Doubtful. I am thinking some kind of bird fever.

[LUVMBDiesels]

It is Bush's fault!

There I said it :-)

[Botnst]

I'm betting on Clostridium botulinum.

[Fulcrum525]

Originally Posted by Botnst

I'm betting on Clostridium botulinum.

You're thinking that these birds fed off of all those dead fish that washed up around the same time?

[RichC]

Dead birds fall from sky in central Sweden



http://www.thelocal.se/31262/20110105/


Published: 5 Jan 11 10:02 CET |



Dead birds have fallen from the sky in central Sweden, echoing a number of unexplained incidents earlier this week across the southern US.


Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, residents found 50 to 100 jackdaws on a street in Falköping southeast of Skövde. The site has been blocked for a veterinary inspection of the birds.

"We do not know what the cause is," said Tomas Ahlgren, officer in command at the Skövde police.

Emergency services have cordoned off an area around the site so that the birds can be examined by the county veterinarian. According to Sveriges Radio Skaraborg, these are between 50 and 100 dead birds.

A veterinarian was his way to investigate the birds on site on Wednesday morning. County veterinian Robert ter Horst would not speculate on what may have caused the birds' deaths.

"We will work quietly and methodically," he said.

On New Year's Eve, an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 blackbirds tumbled from the sky on an Arkansas town shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve.

Separately, 500 birds plummeted to the ground 580 kilometres away in Louisiana on Monday and a Kentucky woman reported finding dozens of dead birds in her yard.

Speculation on the causes of the US bird deaths has ranged from fireworks, the weather, noxious fumes or a "sonic boom."

In addition, up to 100,000 dead and dying drum fish have washed up in the Arkansas River and tens of thousands of dead fish have been found in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

TT/The Local/vt ([email protected])

[RichC]

Hundreds of snapper wash up on beaches in New Zealand



http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4512779/Hundreds-of-snapper-wash-up-on-beaches

ROB KIDD - Waikato Times Last updated 11:17 05/01/2011




Hundreds of dead snapper have washed up on Coromandel beaches, leaving holidaymakers perplexed.
People at Little Bay and Waikawau Bay, on the north-east of the peninsula, were stunned when children came out of the sea with armfuls of the fish and within minutes the shore was littered with them.
Charlotte Pearsall, whose family have lived at Little Bay for the last 30 years, said she had never seen anything like it.
''It was so surreal,'' she said. ''It's such an incredible waste - it could've fed the whole northern tip of the Coromandel.''
People with binoculars said the snapper stretched as far as they could see and boaties reported ''a carpet of floating fish further out to sea all along the coast''.
''We initially thought 'woohoo a free feed' but they had really cloudy eyes and you could see the birds had been at them. Some of them had no eyes,'' Pearsall said.
Her parents called the Department of Conservation and were told it was most likely the fish had starved due to weather conditions, but Pearsall did not think that was the case as many of the fish looked big and healthy.
The Fisheries Ministry are currently investigating the situation and said they could not yet say what the cause was.
''Any commercial operators must record and report their catch,'' said ministry field operations officer for Waikato, Bay of Plenty and the Coromandel Brendon Mikkelsen.
''They're equally as concerned as we are . . . it's not in anybody's interests for fish to be abandoned at sea.''
Mikkelsen said it had happened before but given the quantity of fish it was very concerning.
People saw floating snapper in the water as early as 5am yesterday but the ministry only received reports 12 hours later.
Mikkelsen urged people to get in touch as soon as they saw anything amiss by calling the freephone poacher number 0800 476 224.

[Txjake]

Aliens......

[SwampYankee]

Sounds like Flash Forward!

My wife and I actually thought it was a clever concept and enjoyed the show. Which, most assuredly, doomed it to failure.