Birds mysteriously falling from sky

[treesparrow]

Headlines -

Mystery of 75 starlings falling from the sky

The deaths of 75 starlings which appeared to fall from the sky and crash land on to a driveway in Somerset has mystified the RSPCA animal charity.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8560398.stm

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I seem to remember a number of similar reports of unexplained bird falls several years ago. The attempted explanation of a predator such as a sparrowhawk causing this is very unlikely. Sparrowhawks mode of hunting mostly entails flying low over the ground using cover to hide behind, then suddenly appearing and catching their prey by surprise. Other raptor species, such as, peregrine falcon - an ariel hunter - do take starlings, but for them to cause a mass crash landing like this does seems unlikely and so far as I am aware previously unheard of. A starling flock would stick close together in the air if there was no close cover nearby until one was picked off or the peregrine give up.

Could the deaths be attributed to the birds becoming suddenly aphyxiated due to flying into a pocket of dangerous gas, like methane, bubbling up from below the earths surface? Is this a possibility? Just speculating.

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[ScioAgapeOmnis]

Seems like a likely explanation, especially considering that methane is bubbling up in the arctic and Venezuela's lightning phenomenon seems to have stopped, also possibly because of methane. This looks like just another sign that something wicked cold this way comes.

 

[rylek]

Also Laura recently mentioned this in the Memories, Dreams section:

Just want to add that there seems to be a whole lot of EM activity going on here on the BBM and that could be activating a lot of things including doing a sort of "forced resonance" on people, causing lots of old stuff, fears, programs, etc, to come to the surface in the marvelously symbolic language of the subconscious.

Wondering if something like that might have "scrambled" the bird's navigation or even knocked them out of the sky.

 

[oneopenmind]

75 Birds Fall From The Sky

Mystery of 75 starlings falling from the sky

"Onlookers said they heard a whooshing sound and then the birds just hit the ground.
"They had fallen on to the ground in quite a small area, about 12ft (3.6m) in diameter.
"They appeared to be in good condition other than injuries that they appear to have suffered when they hit they ground."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/8560398.stm

 

[anart]

One wonders if they flew into something they could not see. Just one possibility, of course...

 

[Keit]

One wonders if they flew into something they could not see. Just one possibility, of course...

Yeah. Or maybe they were disoriented. At the moment I can't look for an appropriate excerpt from C's transcripts, but it mentions Albuquerque and how it slowly moves to 4D. And that there are pockets where reality is distorted and drivers for example are making accidents because they "see" the road being curved right, while in reality (in 3D) it still goes straight. Or people and objects might be misplaced in space. I remember also reading about such cases in one of Keel's books. So another possibility is that something similar happened to those poor birds.

 

[treesparrow]

Mysterious falls of birds are perhaps nothing new. Here's some musing on the matter by Charles Fort, from the start of chapter 19 from The Book of the Damned.

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"In the_Zoologist_, 3-18-21, is recorded an instance of a bird (puffin)
that had fallen to the ground with a fractured head. Interesting, but
mere speculation--but what solid object, high in the air, had that bird
struck against?

Tremendous red rain in France, Oct. 16 and 17, 1846; great storm at the
time, and red rain supposed to have been colored by matter swept up from
this earth's surface, and then precipitated (_Comptes Rendus_, 23-832).
But in _Comptes Rendus_, 24-625, the description of this red rain
differs from one's impression of red, sandy or muddy water. It is said
that this rain was so vividly red and so blood-like that many persons in
France were terrified. Two analyses are given (_Comptes Rendus_,
24-812). One chemist notes a great quantity of corpuscles--whether
blood-like corpuscles or not--in the matter. The other chemist sets down
organic matter at 35 per cent. It may be that an inter-planetary dragon
had been slain somewhere, or that this red fluid, in which were many
corpuscles, came from something not altogether pleasant to contemplate,
about the size of the Catskill Mountains, perhaps--but the present
datum is that with this substance, larks, quail, ducks, and water hens,
some of them alive, fell at Lyons and Grenoble and other places.

I have notes upon other birds that have fallen from the sky, but
unaccompanied by the red rain that makes the fall of birds in France
peculiar, and very peculiar, if it be accepted that the red substance
was extra-mundane. The other notes are upon birds that have fallen from
the sky, in the midst of storms, or of exhausted, but living, birds,
falling not far from a storm-area. But now we shall have an instance for
which I can find no parallel: fall of dead birds, from a clear sky,
far-distant from any storm to which they could be attributed--so remote
from any discoverable storm that--

My own notion is that, in the summer of 1896, something, or some beings,
came as near to this earth as they could, upon a hunting expedition;
that, in the summer of 1896, an expedition of super-scientists passed
over this earth, and let down a dragnet--and what would it catch,
sweeping through the air, supposing it to have reached not quite to this
earth?

In the _Monthly Weather Review_, May, 1917, W.L. McAtee quotes from the
Baton Rouge correspondence to the _Philadelphia Times_:

That, in the summer of 1896, into the streets of Baton Rouge, La., and
from a "clear sky," fell hundreds of dead birds. There were wild ducks
and cat birds, woodpeckers, and "many birds of strange plumage," some of
them resembling canaries.

Usually one does not have to look very far from any place to learn of a
storm. But the best that could be done in this instance was to say:

"There had been a storm on the coast of Florida."

And, unless he have psycho-chemic repulsion for the explanation, the
reader feels only momentary astonishment that dead birds from a storm in
Florida should fall from an unstormy sky in Louisiana, and with his
intellect greased like the plumage of a wild duck, the datum then drops
off.

Our greasy, shiny brains. That they may be of some use after all: that
other modes of existence place a high value upon them as lubricants;
that we're hunted for them; a hunting expedition to this earth--the
newspapers report a tornado.

If from a clear sky, or a sky in which there were no driven clouds, or
other evidences of still-continuing wind-power--or, if from a storm in
Florida, it could be accepted that hundreds of birds had fallen far
away, in Louisiana, I conceive, conventionally, of heavier objects
having fallen in Alabama, say, and of the fall of still heavier objects
still nearer the origin in Florida.

The sources of information of the Weather Bureau are widespread.

It has no records of such falls."

 

[Bidoche]

Mystery of 75 starlings falling from the sky

This might be stretching things a bit, but it could be due to ELF (extra-low frequency) transmissions coming out of cell-phone towers, masts, etc., that affect the birds' ability to navigate correctly.