Over the weekend in arkansas 1000's of birds dropped from the sky and died over a town!! Not one day later and 125 miles away almost 80,000 to 100,000 fish die in the arkansas river!! In both cases they were almost all the same species!!

Also just read msn today and another mass bird death happened in Lousianna today!! About 500 birds died again!! Is this not insane or what!!

AND!! They still have no clue as to what happened!!

I'm in AR and just heard this yesterday. This is wierd and I will be keeping up with this. Post here is you hear any news.

Article in this am's paper said it was due to fireworks that the birds died.

We read this in our local newspaper today. Very, very, weird...

I hate to hear that news. Here at the beach, they are finding dead pelicans that have been decapitated on purpose!! How sick is that??? I sometimes get so sick over what people will do that I turn everything off and leave the newspaper in the bin.

I can maybe see this in the first incident since it was on new years eve but what about the others!! Just seems very strange that it happened not once but three times in a very short time span!!

My oldest Son has anxiety and panic attacks and all of this weird stuff has his anxiety up.

This happened in Illinois a couple of years ago. There were lots of theories but no concrete answers.

I just googled it no know explanation at this point. Scarey

I certainly DO NOT think it was fireworks - only in AR?

This is my problem too. It's tough to handle.

If the gov is behind it we will never know!

Sounds strange. I wonder if they're somehow related.

I feel for you honey!! Hang in there!

Possibly some sort of weather phenomenon. I don't the government shot of nerve gas over Arkansas. But then again....Doesn't Bill Clinton hangout down there.....LOL

yes, 5,000 dead birds fell from the sky on new year's eve in the midnight hours. RedWinged black birds, and starlings. Birds flying in the dark? I listened to an interview with a woman whose neighborhood was filled with these poor creatures, and she said there were no fireworks going off in her neighborhood. It's truly a mystery...

You all may think I'm nuts but I don't get the paper anymore.
I am hyper to begin with and I can't stand reading the awful stuff going on. My son lives and works in DC so I get all my info from him or on the internet but I choose what I want to read :)

I'm not a new hungry person either, but since i'm so close to arkansas I've been hearing it on the radio and seeing it on msn!! The truth is that we will probably never know what happened!!

Have read about that in our newspapers. It surely is a weird phenomonem(?) They are saying it was the fireworks or a thunderstorm, is that right?

We have a problem at this time of the year with dolphins beaching themselves. Just saved a pod of about 12 but a mum and baby died on the beach :( so sad.

Somebody knows why they are just not telling us :twisted:

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

u can't help but think some pretty crazy stuff?!? that's a lot of dying all of a sudden......

It is fishy to me too especially since it happened in two states just days apart and also all the fish dying just not a normal phenomenon! But it is one of those things that may end up in the great book of secrets!

I'm thinking Disney World with their fireworks every night would now be demanded to cease for being so reckless about nature :)

The local (St. Louis) bird expert was on the news this morning. He thinks the freaky storms we had New Years Eve caused them to exhaust themselves or their body temperature to drop drastically when the front moved through the area. All the blackbirds, crows, & starlings have been flocking and acting crazy for the past week and if a big bunch of them got caught in a straight line wind or sucked up in one of the many tornadoes we had on New Year's Eve; it's very probable. As for the fish--the local guy thought it was probably something toxic that quickly dissipated.

I agree, very wierd, but there are always reasons, even if we dont know them yet. You just have to looks at what little facts there are (and not all of them are visible or being told). First, there were 3 kills over a period of time, and they seem to be in a line? Birds, then fish in AK, then birds (same species! plus a few others ) in LA. Also, mostly only 1 species of fish died, and I know there are more fish and birds around than that in any given space.
I do know birds are very delicate and die easy from fright, maybe fireworks? I can't believe only 1 species could die that way, in that great a number, and fish were not involved w/ fireworks.Birds are very seceptible to chgs in temps, maybe a huge cold front came thru? there would be a record of that.
I really think someone was "testing" some thing. We may never be told the truth unless there are people out there ferreting into this even as I type. I lived in Buffalo, there was a guy named Nicola Tesla working on electricity (for one thing, he was a genius of sorts) at the turn of the cent past, he had lots of projects going on. One of his studies was in microwaves and soundwaves. He said, if he had the correct frequency of vibration he could crumble a building just w/ sound alone. (like in the Bible - the walls of Jericho and trumpets)anyway, when he died in a room all alone in NYC, government people swept in and all his papers were taken and sealed. (at the time it was a bigdeal because his country of origin in Europe wanted those papers and the US wouldnt hand them over) Now, Im sure all that work is not sitting in a box on a shelf. This is scarey because we may never hear the reason why this happened.

There are alot of scary things like this that happen out there...and we never find the answers. I used to be a fan of websites that tracked alot of this phenomenom...and got anxiety so bad I had to really start watchig what I read and thought about...that was one reason I got hooked on quilting:)
Now I refuse to think about anything I cannot control...and trust God to take care of the rest. Otherwise I would a mental case.

I think thats the best way to go. I dont watch anything violent on TV or movies - I even pass on the news a lot these days! LOL, I just take things too much to heart and some things I think can hurt you when you let them in your head. I dont even read a lot of posts in some of my yahoo groups cus some people are so mean. Thats why I like this place so much, everyone is laid back, it must be the creative factor - happiness begets happiness.

Some years ago they had a lot of bird died during the night in Austin They never did find out why.

They said on the news tonight they think it was caused by fireworks.

It sort of reminds me of masses of beached whales that happen from time to time. There still isn't a definitive theory regarding that. Things sure are getting strange. Hmmmm........... :roll: