That is scary!!

It was a farmer who poisoned the birds and then it got into the water. It's not a big mystery. Chalk it up to imaginations run wild when there is a feasible explanation.

In two different states? Where did you see that information?

If that was the case I don't understand why the birds would all drop from the sky at the same time. Wouldn't they die slowly depending on when and how much they ate?

I don't believe it, either. Fireworks??? Do the birds fly at night??? Most fireworks happen during the night. And when you consider the # of fireworks -- the BIG ones -- that have been going on for over 60 yrs that I know of and we've NEVER seen this. There's something else happening.

And they DID say the birds have been tested (I'm sure not all of them) and they found no poisons.

Here is a link to Fox news about it:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/hea...rk-blackbirds/

No it says they don't know what caused it. That is so weird though.

Same thing happened in the south-west of our state - Western Australia. Smaller birds were dying en masse, then bigger ones. Turned out to be lead poisoning from poorly contained lead dust from lead being loaded and shipped from the port. Caused an incredible fuss, because then they tested local children...their lead levels were up too.

The smaller creatures are the first affected by such things, birds are particularly vulnerable to environmental changes or poisons....a sure sign that something is not quite right. Hopefully someone is doing some testing of the bodies.

How scary!

They have tested them and they found no poisons or medical reasons. And if there were poison out somewhere, other types of birds would have been affected too.

This phenomenon has happened in the past, so this is not the first time.

Blackbirds are very susceptible to stress problems, so a lightning strike or fireworks could cause them to be stressed enough to die.

There is nothing that points to foul play at this point.

And only on this one fireworks occasion??? Not the Fourth? Not last year? Fishy to me!

Jan in VA