More than 1,000 dead birds fall from sky in Ark

Churmudgeon wrote:

<quoted text> Yes they have a earth quake almost weekly a Guy Ark. They are doing natural gas drilling and fracking in the area. Guy is about 20 miles as a black bird would fly from beebe Ar.http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes /nm050912b.php

You are exaggerating, we don't have an earthquake almost weekly, and how do you explain the same earthquake activity in the same area in the 1970s? Sorry no correlation has been proven between the gas grilling, earthquakes and dead birds.

Hey Army, Just an update on hearing loss. I found out that the VA will give you Hearing aids. GI's that served on active duty during the Nam war can also apply for VA benifit's. I searched for my 214 this morning but havent found out where I put it. YET

from hear me wrote:

must be a solution to this problem some sort of signal emmiter that would steer the birds higher or away from the turbine

Nice thought, but birds generally don't fear sounds. Their instinct to migrate along certain flyways and follow certain landmarks and constellations is extremely strong. The height at which they travel is usually determined by weather.

The fact that we have lights on tall structures also has a bearing on how deadly that structure will be.

It is said that lights confuse birds and they will circle a light for hours getting exhausted. It's possible they are also eating insects attracted to the light. This video shows birds circling a tall, lighted building at night. Imagine that is a wind turbine with blades spinning at almost 200mph.

One cell tower and its guy wires claimed the life of 10,000 birds (Lapland Longspurs) in just one evening in Kansas some years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

BTW, skyscrapers also kill millions of birds as they slam into windows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

One other thing to remember is most songbirds migrate at night. On nights that are foggy, rainy, moonless or overcast, birds simply cannot see if there is a structure in front of them.

Wind turbines are built at just the right height to be a disaster in the making.

As a bird lover and nature photographer, I care about the environment, but I do NOT support wind energy. Wind turbines, skyscrapers and cell towers are a migratory birds' worst nightmare.

Zap wrote:

Hey Army, Just an update on hearing loss. I found out that the VA will give you Hearing aids. GI's that served on active duty during the Nam war can also apply for VA benifit's. I searched for my 214 this morning but havent found out where I put it. YET

Thanks Zap. They gave me one about seven years ago but I quit wearing it, now wife is telling me to go back. I still have it, probably just needs a new battery.

dogs can learn things I am sure the birds will figure out that there buddy just hit the ground go the other way

I hate to use the race card, but ya'll know if these were "whitebirds" this problem would have done been solved years ago, but they are blackbirds, so this gets low priority from the government.

Old Army wrote:

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You are exaggerating, we don't have an earthquake almost weekly, and how do you explain the same earthquake activity in the same area in the 1970s? Sorry no correlation has been proven between the gas grilling, earthquakes and dead birds.

There was a 2.5 on may 9th. Nothing has been proven or disproven about the dead birds or the fish kill.

May 9th. Yep, 16 months after the birds dropped dead. Everything seems normal here near Pangburn. Beautiful day with clean air, clean river, birds doing their thing and life going on.

Old Army wrote:

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Thanks Zap. They gave me one about seven years ago but I quit wearing it, now wife is telling me to go back. I still have it, probably just needs a new battery.

Maybe you should listen to her. If I had to talk to me I would stop coming to the house. Might be why I don't have any company. My dog likes me. I think. I never heard him say otherwise.

from hear me wrote:

dogs can learn things I am sure the birds will figure out that there buddy just hit the ground go the other way

Dogs are smart, don't know abt birds, they do take flight training. My dog was abt 4 when I started giving him the plastic containers of chicken salad, butter & pimento cheese, I use to laugh at him when he would pick up the container & most of it would block his vision, after abt 3 times he found out he could reach across the cup & pick it up with out blocking his sight. He's smarter than my neighbor & twice as handsome. I admit I was concerned when he started racing, the seat belts never fit him right.

I read the BBC News Front Page today. Seems like the "Turkey Villagers see Israel spy in migratory bird" they found a dead bird with a metal band that said Israel on it. The local police declared it a spy & sent it in for investigation. They should know that Israel would be smarter than that, they would have used a US metal band. what a bunch of turkey's.

Every day when you wake you should make a wish. Todays wish is that North Korea nukes China, Iran nukes Russia, & the US bans golf from TV

Zap wrote:

I read the BBC News Front Page today. Seems like the "Turkey Villagers see Israel spy in migratory bird" they found a dead bird with a metal band that said Israel on it. The local police declared it a spy & sent it in for investigation. They should know that Israel would be smarter than that, they would have used a US metal band. what a bunch of turkey's.

I lived on the nothernmost point of Turkey for a year Sinop Diogenes Station and I am concerned over thier Goverment that they have now they are moving to non secular government after all the hard Attaturk but in to avoid this they are starting to become radical not a good thing

After all the hard work Attaturk put in to insure a secular Government in the are starting to become a non secular radical nation. not a good thing

I agree. I fear its the future.

NAACP wrote:

I hate to use the race card, but ya'll know if these were "whitebirds" this problem would have done been solved years ago, but they are blackbirds, so this gets low priority from the government.

Where you at keisha Henderson? Need some help here.

Really dead birds!

Guest wrote:

Really dead birds!

i am hopping for 10,000 posts going kind of slow

Maybe I can help. About 20 years ago I was using two hummer feeders, there was always a fight over them, over the years there has been a decline here in this area of TN. I remember one year the storms in the Gulf was blamed for the loss of a lot of them. the decline has been steady over the years. At one time there would be hummers here by the 15 th of Apr every year even when there was just a few here. I put out a feeder every year even though there is only a seldom seen hummer. They arrived in May this year. So far there was a female a few days back & yesterday I saw a little male. Has any body else seen this decline in their area?

Can't speak to a trend on the hummingbirds, only been feeding them two years. Last year think there were two, this year four. Don't know if they are playing or fighting but they sure get after each other. One feeder hanging on the front porch and one in a maple tree. Was sitting on the back porch and one of the little buggers flew within a foot of my face, gave me a long look then took off. Guess he figured I wasn't sweet or maybe checking out his reflection in my glasses.