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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Thousands of birds fall from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas |
| 2011-01-02 |
| Just before folks in Beebe rang in the New Year, many witnessed an uncanny resemblance to the Hitchcock movie "The Birds." About 2,000 black birds fell from the sky off Windwood Drive, leaving quite the mess to clean up. Folks Today's THV spoke with initially thought the birds were poisoned because they are what they call a nuisance around this time every year, but they are surprised to hear it is more of a mystery. Stephen Bryant recalls, "Millions, millions fly over every night. You look up at the sky and it's just black and then last night at about 10:30 I came out here and saw a bird drop." In a matter of hours on New Years Eve thousands of birds fell from the sky to their death. |
| Posted by:Delphi |
| #8 Now we know that happened to passenger pigeons. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-01-02 16:57 |
| #7 I wonder what evidence would confirm hypoxia or hypothermia as the cause of the mass die-off, so long afterward? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-01-02 16:38 |
| #6 An updraft would be in keeping with the weather in that part of the country. They've been having some pretty severe thunderstorms, and there was a tornado just a few days ago. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2011-01-02 14:17 |
| #5 All sorts of interesting possibilities, but thankfully not disease or poison. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-02 13:46 |
| #4 Yeah, tw, I read the linked article too. Sure takes the sails out of the juicy conspiracy theories, don't it? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-01-02 13:14 |
| #3 A U.S. Environmental Services crew in full protective gear was out there pretty quickly to collect the birds, which fell in about a one mile area. They expect to get the last of them today. Some corpses were sent for testing. At least one live bird was found, injured, silently walking in circles, not even attempting to fly. The theory is that the birds ran into a high altitude lightening storm or hail, or were blown higher into the atmosphere, where they froze or asphyxiated. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-01-02 13:12 |
| #2 Also look for a huge number of dead Cats and dogs shortly. (That eat the dead birds) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-01-02 11:30 |
| #1 Handle them with full "Space Suits" On, and check for disease, Bird flu and such ARE communicable to Humans. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-01-02 11:27 |