Grisly mystery after scores of starlings fall out of the sky and lie dying... in a SINGLE front gard

I'm pretty sure they were poisoned guys, it's actually a pretty common practice with starlings. They tend to build their nests in inconvient places, and cause trouble with farmers and ranchers. Typically its the government that does the poisoning. (not sure if its legal for anyone else to do this)


Poisoned starlings found in longview park

more info about starlings and control methods

I only know this is done because when I was younger we had the same experience on the family ranch. Woke up one morning with all these dead and dying birds all over the yard.

Originally posted by WatchTheWorld
This story was also on the BBC news website, they said the most likely explanation was that the birds where taking evasive action to avoid a predator and flew into the ground at speeds without realising.

BBC News link

Yeah, I said that earlier too, but it seems the most simple, likely explanation isn't as much fun as HAARP, Military experiments or invisible aliens!

In fact, it would appear most have ignored this evidence and carry on regardless. Occams razor is an unknown here on ATS these days.

Personally, I find it much more believable that while the flock was moving (and they move extremely quickly!) they made a wrong turn as only the ones on the outside of the flock would have any knowledge of the ground, so thwe ones within the flock would have plowed into the ground before they even realised.

Their injuries are consistent with this.

Witness statements are consistent with this.

There is no eivdence of any radiation or poisoning, which to intelligent minds would put to bed any of the silly theories being espoused in this thread.

Deny ignorance indeed....

reply to post by daddymax


When I was in the Army, I too remember the signal corps guys using microwaves to zap birds out of the sky. If you turn that thing up to a particular freq and aim at a flock of birds, it zaps them right out of the sky. Starlings are very small birds that tend to fly very close to each other so regardless of the hight, they would tend to stay grouped as they fall, as long as they are zapped all at once and had the same trajectory when they were zapped. This sounds exactly like what would happen if the birds were zapped with some type of projected microwaves, such as radar, communication or other military equipment.

reply to post by ManWithGrace89


There you go. That's the answer. Thanks for the clarification. Clearly the birds had just been poisoned and dropped dead moments later.

I blame wonder womans invisible jet

reply to post by MightyAl



Funny I don't remember saying "moments later". Maybe I'm wrong, that's cool. It just sounds a little more plausible than a microwave attack.

More than anything I was trying to point out that groups of starlings turning up dead isn't that uncommon, and you don't even have to bust out the tinfoil hat to explain it..

Originally posted by Blazer
I blame wonder womans invisible jet

I find that just as probable as any other "explanation" given so far.

Im going with Occam on this one.

She put them there herself, and we're giving her the attention she so desired.

Spliced-in lemming genes from a genetics project gone awry?

Spontaneous development of religious consciousness in starlings leading to a mass death cult?

[The curse of the double post, my apoligies]

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Quite obvious: Two flocks flying in opposite directions had a mid-air collision, no survivors.

Lol, OR .. maybe the lady is touched in the head and decided to kill birds and toss em into a pile.

OR .. some other explanation much better than mine occurred.

reply to post by airspoon

This sounds exactly like what would happen if the birds were zapped with some type of projected microwaves, such as radar, communication or other military equipment.

airspoon, I think you're scenario sounds more plausible than anything else.

If they were poisoned, they wouldn't have fallen at the same time. Shotgun blast--no. Chased by predators and got confused--no. It sounds like some of them were already dead before they hit the ground, which means something traumatic while in flight.

I saw this happen in a hollywood movie some years ago called "The Core".
it did have something to do with the magnetic poles of the earth
shifting causing the birds navigation skills to deteriorate and they flew
into walls, buildings and the ground not being able to navigate as usual
with their senses. Since there have been posts here on this forum about
recent earthquakes causing entire cities to move 10 feet and the earth's
axis changing and the earth's rotation to shorten by 1.26 milliseconds,
this might be a direct result confirmed from that earth shift.

reply to post by boondock-saint


Oh I was looking for a movie to listen to today - I'll try The Core.

As for the dead birds - poison would be my guess - but - whatever it is? I had nightmares about these things last night. The whole dead flock came a tap-tap-tapping on the my door, each one dressed like the Plague Doctor.

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/2cafe1c29947.jpg[/atsimg]

VERY SCARY!



EDIT TO ADD:

Google Video Link

[edit on 11-3-2010 by silo13]

Originally posted by NightGypsy
Chased by predators and got confused--no. It sounds like some of them were already dead before they hit the ground, which means something traumatic while in flight.

Oh dear lord...

Where does it say that any of them "seemed dead before they hit the ground"? You're just making stuff up now.

A crash landing is afr more plausable than some secret microwave nonsense or HAARP..

You do know where this occured, don't you? Deepest, darkest Somerset.. Hardly a hotbed for secret military tests, poison clouds or HAARP attacks....

Jeebus, some people will happily believe the most outlandish idea's before even considering the most sensible.

reply to post by stumason


"this was no case of divine intervention; on the contrary it was a divine con, but that was the magic of the best grifts, convincing the rubes to believe th impossible. the bigger the lies, the more outrageous the lies, the more desperate the masses were gulled by them, especially if there was a little divinity thrown into the mix."-vampie wars-by steven savile

i think that sums up any conspiracy on this

reply to post by ashanu90


i realize there is nothing to do with religion in this but the point still stands there is a logical reasonable explanation we don't want to jump to conclusions and start mass hysteria about the end of the world do we?

I have no idea what really caused this, but I lend myself to believe it was one of two things. Striking an object, which could be anything due to loosing bearing, radar interference, object in the sky, blind leader, etc. Or it could be poisoning in feed where all of the birds ate at the same time, flew off together, and then died together. Both options are possible.

Originally posted by Blazer
I blame wonder womans invisible jet

Wooow I had forgotten all about that until you just said!!

Lynda Carter was a serious serious hip lady!!

Cloaking may very well be an active military technology...

British Military Invisible Tank

British defense researchers have invented a means to cloak tanks and make them invisible tank. London’s Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Sun all report on tests conducted by the Ministry of Defence last week in which a tank rolled across a field, completely invisible to observers standing at a certain point.

“This technology is incredible,” an unnamed soldier was quoted by the Daily Mail and Sun.

“If I hadn’t been present I wouldn’t have believed it. I looked across the fields and just saw grass and trees but in reality I was staring down the barrel of a tank gun.” Invisible Cloaking of a TankAlthough as you first heard this topic, it is not as mystical as it might seem.

The technology relies on heavy use of camera and projectors. Basically, a camera films the background, which is then projected upon a special surface applied to something in the foreground in this case, a tank.

Military Seeks Invisibility Cloak

WASHINGTON -- Imagine an invisibility cloak that works just like the one Harry Potter inherited from his father. Researchers in England and the United States think they know how to do that. They are laying out the blueprint and calling for help in developing the exotic materials needed to build a cloak.

The keys are special manmade materials, unlike any in nature or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

These materials are intended to steer light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation around an object, rendering it as invisible as something tucked into a hole in space. "Is it science fiction? Well, it's theory and that already is not science fiction. It's theoretically possible to do all these Harry Potter things, but what's standing in the way is our engineering capabilities," said John Pendry, a physicist at the Imperial College London. Details of the study, which Pendry co-wrote, appear in Thursday's online edition of the journal Science.

Scientists not involved in the work said it presents a solid case for making invisibility an attainable goal. Read More www.wired.com...

All the best,

korg.

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Mysterious Mass bird Deaths all over the Globe

www.theenvironmentalblog.org...

500 Australian bird deaths
60 Texas Bird Deaths
375 Duck Deaths in Denver, Colorado

Deaths of birds are rising all over the world. The articles I have linked above are
just the deaths of birds in which the Avian Bird Flu has been ruled out.
Some say the birds are dying because they drank toxic water,
others think it could be a harsh climate. [...]

the above (from 2007) is just to show a point that various birds from various locations are getting decimated in groups anywhere/everywhere, so microwaves or X-Band radars are not the only actual cause...


I also recall that there are incidents where fish or frogs have been dumped on a location, just out-of-the-clear-blue-sky! The decided cause was that the critters or fish were scooped up in one location by a tornado then dropped on the unsuspecting community some miles away.
~wasn't there recently some incident of tornadic winds in Europe? ~
perhaps the flock was whisked into the jetstream current in N America & fell where this thread has reported a bunch of birds were found, across the Atlantic


i believe it was Valhalla who had a thread a few years back about floatillas' of seagulls or albatross bodies being found...and all the implications that would have...

Now im not saying this happened in this case, as there are so many reasons for finding small groups of dead birds. Some are manmade and some are natural reasons.

But i will say this.

At one time i lived for several years in a town that had a defence establishment on the edge of the town, this base was also surrounded by housing developments and some countryside. The base was fairly large and had several thousand people working there. Some military but most were scientists who worked for the military.
All over the base there was radar domes, radar dishes, areials, and sattelite communications systems. On the surrounding hills were relay transmitters and other classified electronic stations.

The base was involved in everything from, missile technology, radar, sattelites, misiles, and also did work for nato and the usa. A lot of the scientists lived in the town and surrounding area. After a investigation involving the military, goverment and independant scientists. It concluded that when the base ran some tests.
These tests interfered with tv, radio transmitions, mobile phones and even some land lines. Several times things like car alarms and building alarms were effected. Farmers, local people, police, vets and others after seeing the released part of the report, looked at their records and found evidence of dead birds found all around the town and birds being found wandering or lying on the ground suffering spasm, bleeding, and no toxicins or injuries could be found to explain this.

House hold pets were behaving strange at times and so were farm animals. The report also stated that several people who worked at the site were after medical tests found to be suffering from medical problems that were linked to exposure to the emissions of radars and other electrical transmitting devices on the base were they worked.

After the investigation several of the large radars and sattelite equipment were dismantled and moved to other base. It was said for health reason of the base personnel and that this equipment might also pose a health risk to the surrounding population.

Either way after this equipment was removed, there was no more wide spread problems with tv/ radio/ mobile phones/ alarms, and the vets and police, farmers reported the cases of strange animal effects slowly vanishished.

Take a look at the world and see how many electrical systems pump into the air and then the pestisides and pollution, and many other factors. This will and does have an effect on animals and people.