Strange Animal Behavior in Western Washington

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Jk, what do i know?

a reply to: westcoast

Need to read through the thread, but what you wrote has me cautious..
I'm in SW Washington, in Vancouver. I've seen the birds circling and the jays and crows have been squawking more often. I thought it was due to the fires on the other side of the state and the birds travelled here for food.
Wasps at the area parks have been harrasing people more, but the news said the heat wave caused more to hatch this year.
I read about the whales earlier.comments on kgw facebook page made me think pollution problems and in tje past whales have traveled up the slough near Everett., but now I'm second guessing. This year the Columbia is low and the forceful waters at the mouth wipes out ships. The whales must've been determined to get into the river.

I read an article not too long ago. I sure hope it's nothing to do with this

www.newyorker.com...

a reply to: westcoast

Such an amazing picture. I will have to visit that lake soon.

My first guess was birds getting confused and can't navigate past the forest fires.
Then you threw in the humpback whale.

I'm in PA, and all my dogs are clinging to me more than usall. In July we had the usual insects. But an added bonus of Orioles. Orioles don't usually come around here.

If this has to do with a pending earthquake. May I suggest an alternative date.
The 27th into the 28th of Sept. I can't prove it. But it seems sometimes gravity is a catalyst. On Sun into Mon the 28th. There will be a blood moon. At his time the moon will be at its closest to earth. It's just a feeling I have.

earthsky.org...

Stay safe

Whilst strange, the whale thing does occasionally happen. For example, i used to live in a tiny village (only about 15 miles away now) and that village is very old (Cardinal Wolsey had a castle there) with many old pubs. On the walls of one of the pubs (right next to the river) is an old black and white photo of villagers posing with a whale they took out of the river by the bridge. The village in question is roughly 50 miles from the North Sea meaning that not only did this whale happen to navigate the river, it also then proceeded to carry on swimming up. The river in question is tidal but not particularly wide or deep and certainly nothing like the size of the river Westcoast saw the whale in.

As this was "back in the day", there was no happy ending for the whale in question but the villagers did rather well out of it!

As to the thread in question, it certainly does appear to be a bit "off". Given the location, i think if im honest that i would also have squeaky bum time. Normally i would think it is definitely something seismic related BUT......... the warm blob in the Pacific may well be involved. By this i mean the warmer waters affect the krill and other plankton breeding grounds which migrate which mean the birds follow (if sensible) or they stay and then get increasingly distressed with less resources around.

Again though, given the location i would be concerned without being at panic stage. Yet.

As to animals and earthquakes - there is definitely something in it but the problem with using it to forecast is that animals also go loopy for other reasons too. This means that after an earthquake has occured it is simple to link the behaviour to them "sensing" the earthquake but this is almost impossible before said earthquake occured. The closest study was the Chinese Professor who spent around 40 years (or possibly longer) studying the behaviour of bees and seemed to have a pretty high success rate for predicting earthquakes.

I'm not sure that this is of any significance, I have been watching here.

www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca...

Since the Chile quake.

There seems to be a constant hum going on. Some area's are alittle more active. I usually check in here at least once a week and never really see much action.

Yesterday I spent a good part of the day watching and I am noticing more action.

Funny, when there is any action, some of the channels go pink. I sent an E-mail and asked why that happens and I was told that means the equipment is not responding. Found that answer kinda odd, since they seem to (go down) just as there is movement in the area.

Maybe someone else can comment more on how Canada takes care of their equipment. And if, in fact they shut down the info if something significant occures.

a reply to: crappiekat

Reading this the other day How earthquakes can trigger copycat quakes 1000km away

Very basically, it is saying that if the frequencies are just right (and each fault has it's own frequency trigger) then distant quakes can vibrate rock particles within the fault itself , making the fauly more "slippery". Perhaps the Chile quake had just the right frequency?

Someone forgot to tell these birds they can predict earthquake, they are just as shocked as the humans.

originally posted by: WeRpeons

it has been suggested that it was caused by a quick change in the weather.....ummmm, ok.

a reply to: westcoast

Usually birds nest quietly when there's a coming change in weather, like storms or rain.

Agreed. As an avid bird watcher, IMHO, they settle in and batten down the hatches.

a reply to: westcoast

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a reply to: fictitious

Not being facetious at all, only curious...but why wouldn't whales go further out to sea rather than inland? Tsunamis are more destructive near land than at sea, right? Plus they can submerge.

This morning I noticed small quakes around Oregon area ( under 2.9).

Too many 4's this morning so I am going out on the limb to say there is pressure building.

In regards to whales in the river.... this is truly sad. Whatever reason..... I hope they are okay. I did google it and although rare, they do sometimes do end up in the river but don't last long as they cannot live in freshwater. Either way it's not a good sign.

Come to think of it.... not a lot of good signs these days.

Our oceans are polluted, air is polluted and trees are coming down day after day. Our ECO System is so off.

In particular want to point out:

originally posted by: Bigburgh
My first guess was birds getting confused and can't navigate past the forest fires.
Then you threw in the humpback whale.

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The fires and smoke have lessened, so not so sure that would have to do with the activity of the birds as of late.

a reply to: kosmicjack

Once there was this humpback whale they named "Humphrey". He visited the SF Bay area twice.

He was quite news worthy at the time. Nothing happened, except to Humphrey…

Wiki

Birds and whales use the earths magnetic field. maybe something changed that is confusing them?

a reply to: RunForTheHills

I'm over in Virginia. We haven't had to use the flea/tick stuff on our dogs or cats for several months the same as you. It's downright bizarre when bugs like that are disappearing. There is something extremely odd and dangerous going on, I have no idea why. Usually there's some kind of signs for animals disappearing - this time nothing.
Very troubling. The bottom end of the food chain is being affected.

I'm sticking to the early warning systems theory of mother nature and on alert for something wicked this way comes.

originally posted by: kosmicjack
a reply to: fictitious
Not being facetious at all, only curious...but why wouldn't whales go further out to sea rather than inland? Tsunamis are more destructive near land than at sea, right? Plus they can submerge.

Maybe the whale was distracted by the cooler water current coming from the Columbia river. If the tide was low at the time the current may have been strong enough to reach the whales normal trek north.

There is also the possibility the whale was simply curious. They are after all quite intelligent.

Of course there is a lot of pollution/waste in the Columbia so I would think the whale would stay away from that.

a reply to: westcoast

The first paragraph about birds grabbed me. Last Sunday night we were awakened by a what we assumed was a bird in the timber. I could not identify what it was. We've lived here for 20 years. Never have we heard something like that. Also, our German shepard has not gone outside without us for atleast a month. Last night a flock of birds flew over our house faster than I've ever seen exiting from out timber. Maybe I should take a walk in the woods.

Had no problems with birds but our dogs are acting crazy,just a couple of nights ago our dogs wanted outside one dog was barking at the sky and actually jumping up like he saw something up there he was trying to get the other one who is usually laid back was highly upset ,the one barking at the sky is very in tune with sounds so i don't know what was going on with him