As a Texan, I can tell the good people of Louisiana how gratifying it is to “one up” Arkansas.

—

This was an alert on FOX “New’s” Megyn Kelly’s show?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b5aW08ivHU

It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvellous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on,all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so God can watch human being struggle for good and evil — which is the view religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
– Richard Feynman

Once is happenstance. Twice is concidence. But three times, it’s enemy action. Not that there is an enemy. But I would really like to know who is putting glass walls in the sky for the birds to hit.

Helix said:
Once is happenstance. Twice is concidence. But three times, it’s enemy action. Not that there is an enemy. But I would really like to know who is putting glass walls in the sky for the birds to hit.

THREE TIMES!!!
WHAT?! We’re gonna scratch the “STRESS” angle in this huh?!
lol

I am more shocked that the “stress” angle was brought forward as a “legitimate” reason than i am of all these birds fallin’ out of the sky!

Someone needs to check out any of those chemical/biological company in those areas. Something fishy is going on here.

The clip says that more than a 1000 of this particular species has dropped dead at the same time 16 times over the past 30 years, so it’s just another time.

My initial instinct when the story first broke is that the Arkansas town is on the Mississippi flyway and you can draw a straight line on Google Maps from Beebe to Labarre. Of course, it could be a little late for red-winged blackbirds to be migrating, but that may be a factor, plus I’m on the same flyway and I saw a flock of type of some small birds easily numbering in the tens of thousands just last week.

Yeah, must have been those damn fireworks again.

Why hasn’t this occurred ever July 4, Labor Day and New Year’s eve in the past?

notsofast said:
Why hasn’t this occurred ever July 4, Labor Day and New Year’s eve in the past?

Perhaps, burn bans were in effect?

skyfet said:
Someone needs to check out any of those chemical/biological company in those areas. Something fishy is going on here.

skyfet is right . This bird thing IS fishy .

Helix said:
Once is happenstance. Twice is concidence. But three times, it’s enemy action. Not that there is an enemy. But I would really like to know who is putting glass walls in the sky for the birds to hit.

Steven King?

Big Eddie said:
This bird thing IS fishy .

It’s that bloody spaceman, I tell ya.

Magister said:
The clip says that more than a 1000 of this particular species has dropped dead at the same time 16 times over the past 30 years, so it’s just another time.

My initial instinct when the story first broke is that the Arkansas town is on the Mississippi flyway and you can draw a straight line on Google Maps from Beebe to Labarre. Of course, it could be a little late for red-winged blackbirds to be migrating, but that may be a factor, plus I’m on the same flyway and I saw a flock of type of some small birds easily numbering in the tens of thousands just last week.

That’s interesting. The ruby throated hummingbirds and purple martins seems to have kept to their usual migratory patterns along the Central Flyway, but otherwise many of the birds seem to have simply remained in place. This has been particularly noticeable with the scissor-tails. I don’t think we have had a day yet in which the temperature didn’t rise above freezing, although I understand that is coming next week.

Arkansas: I raise 500 dead birds.
Louisiana: I call your 5OO dead birds
Washington D.C.: I see your 500 dead birds and raise you a lame duck.
United States: I fold.

notsofast said:
Why hasn’t this occurred ever July 4, Labor Day and New Year’s eve in the past?

Climate change?

(ducks and covers)

Grammie said:
Steven King?

Did you mean Steve King, the nutty Representative from Iowa, Stephen King, the author, Steven King the ARF baller or Steven King, the guitarist?

@TRRK: My wife went on a quest for ducks last weekend and though she probably put close to 200 miles on the car, she really just found a few mallards.

As you might expect, she’s the bird-watcher in the family; my usual job is to drive her wherever the birds have been reported and man the book, so I never really get to look at the birds unless they’re something super-special, but I did notice those huge flocks last week because they were so large.

Anybody remember the movie “The Core”? Just another theory.

Magister said:
@TRRK: My wife went on a quest for ducks last weekend and though she probably put close to 200 miles on the car, she really just found a few mallards.

As you might expect, she’s the bird-watcher in the family; my usual job is to drive her wherever the birds have been reported and man the book, so I never really get to look at the birds unless they’re something super-special, but I did notice those huge flocks last week because they were so large.

Most interesting. We’re on a bunting path, and we have a pair of painted buntings each year, in the summer. But, we have several pair of green buntings this winter. Never before. We also have large numbers of finches. I, too, have noticed the large flocks. One day at sunset the week of Christmas, our fence line was covered. My wife thought them a type of swallow. Something odd.

Tony the Fist said:
Arkansas: I raise 500 dead birds.Louisiana: I call your 5OO dead birdsWashington D.C.: I see your 500 dead birds and raise you a lame duck.United States: I fold.

I guess being a professional poker player makes this quote extra funny….. that’s some funny shit dude. LOL

Magister said:
Climate change?

(ducks and covers)

That is as believable as the theory behind climate change.

Atticus Draco said:
THREE TIMES!!!
WHAT?! We’re gonna scratch the “STRESS” angle in this huh?!
lol

I am more shocked that the “stress” angle was brought forward as a “legitimate” reason than i am of all these birds fallin’ out of the sky!

Three times, one fish and two birds so far. The fish might be unrelated, would like to see the autopsy report on that one. Look at the timing, three incidents in a relatively close area with a small number of days between each incident. Then, look at the lame official explanations so far, compare with the evidence, and eliminate each one as a possibility. When all those fail, start looking elsewhere.
1. Fireworks/Stress. LOL. The rate of bird killl is far too high and the birds are spaced out over a mile. Fireworks would leave detectable traces(black powder on the feathers) and kill the birds in the tree, not up in the air, and not kill all the birds. Only airburst shells would do that, and why is the U.S Army shelling birds with heavy AA anyway, and they still wouldn’t kill enough birds.
2. LIghtning. FAIL. Birds don’t have copper feathers, there was no weather system in the area to produce this, and it wouldn’t hit the whole flock midair, and leave the bodies intact. It would miss most of the birds and leave burn marks or vaporize the bird. Would also be detectable in the autopsy.
3. Hailstorm. FAIL. See point 2 for the lack of the weather system. Also lack of hailstones on the ground immediately afterwards, hail big enough to kill birds would hit the ground on a cold New Year’s Eve, and the photo shows no hailstones. And, hail wouldn’t kill all the birds either, they know about storms and would have landed.
So much for the official explanations. The autopsy report of the Arkansas birds showed massive physical trauma. Well duh, they hit the ground from altitude, what did you expect? What we need to know if there were TWO physical impacts or one. A fall would injure the bird from one side, an impact (think window) from one side, a pressure wave(air overpressure) would be all over the body. Two impacts makes the explanation much easier, one impact means something else happened to the birds midair.

Grammie said:
Steven King?

It would certainly make some good writing material, but he is going to need to have a plot first. We also need some believable characters which is his weak point IHMO. Some of his characters are pretty wimpy. I do like the gunslinger, but no way to tie him into this one. All we have right nowwith the birds is just the introduction with the first couple of pages, the main body of the story is yet to be written.

“There is some sort of wave or something in the atmosphere zapping these birds with lasers..maybe aliens. There must be. Birds don’t just rain from the sky.” it’s just too strange for this number of birds to fall at one time and to happen twice. We have had worse weather, we’ve had poisons in the environmen­t for years, and birds have been flying for an millenia; something unique occurred to caused this.”

I think it is from Global Cooling and I’m not trying to be funny or snide. It’s been pretty damn cold lately and a bird falling 1000′s of feet to the earth will leave a mark. Sudden drops of temperature from the jet stream could drop the temperature faster than birds and fish are able adjust to it.