More Than 1,000 Dead Birds Fall From Arkansas Sky

[IWannaKnow]

http://www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz/h...as-dead-birds-pile-up-on-city-street/3939418/

Mystery as dead birds pile up on city street
Imogen Crispe | 5th February 2011

The council had reports of the dead birds on Amohau St and believed they had died last Friday.

There were two clean-ups of birds over the long weekend.

"Over Saturday and Sunday a contractor for the council picked up approximately 300 dead sparrows," Mr Nicklin said.

He said on Monday, when Castle Corp staff were doing some mowing on the reserve, they found more dead birds and picked them up.

He said the council did not know why the dead sparrows were there, but he thought it could have been something to do with the stormy weather experienced over that weekend.

 

[IWannaKnow]

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13973949
Dead fish wash up on Florida shore
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 6:41 PM EST
Updated: Feb 04, 2011 7:31 PM EST
All rights reserved. 1,000's of dead fish wash up at Sebastian Inlet State Park, Sebastian FL.

http://www.wpbf.com/r/26744523/detail.html
Dead Fish Wash Up At Sebastian Inlet State Park

 

[IWannaKnow]

http://www.windsorstar.com/technology/Scientists+probe+fish/4223336/story.html

Scientists probe big fish die-off
By Sharon Hill, The Windsor Star
February 4, 2011

Tests are being done in Michigan to see why thousands of dead gizzard shad are turning up along the Detroit River and in lakes Erie and St. Clair.

"The only thing we're really sure of is temperatures are likely a factor," Ministry of Natural Resources biologist Andy Cook said Thursday from Wheatley.

On Jan. 20 a Windsor resident walking his dog along the Detroit River in Alexander Park saw thousands of dead fish. The MNR found thousands of dead gizzard shad farther east near Little River on Jan. 28.

Department spokeswoman Mary Dettloff said the gizzard shad found in Lake St. Clair are being tested for a deadly fish virus called VHS because some of them showed symptoms of the disease.

Viral hemorrhagic septicemia is a viral disease found in freshwater and saltwater fish in Europe, Japan and along the coasts of North America. The disease was first identified in Ontario in 2005 in Lake Ontario. Since then it has caused large die-offs of fish. It has been found in a number of species including commercial and sport fish such as walleye and yellow perch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_hemorrhagic_septicemia

Gross pathology (Non-laboratory)
VHSV is a hemorrhagic disease, meaning it causes bleeding. Internally, the virus can cause petechial hemorraging (tiny spots of blood) in internal muscle tissue, and petechial or severe hemorrhaging in internal organs and other tissues. Internal hemorrhaging can be observed as red spots inside a dead fish, particularly around the kidney, spleen, and intestines, as well as the swim bladder, which would normally have a clear membrane. The liver may be pale, mottled with red hyperemic areas, the kidney may be swollen and unusually red, the spleen may be swollen, and the digestive tract may be empty.[15]

External signs are not always present, but if they are, hemorrhaging on the skin's surface can appear as anywhere from tiny red dots (petechiae) to large red patches.

[edit] Histopathology (Microscopic tissue analysis)Preliminary diagnosis involves histopathological examination, observing tissues through a microscope. Most tissue changes can be observed as minor to major necrosis (cell death) in the liver, kidneys, spleen, and skeletal muscle. The hematopoietic (blood-forming) areas of the kidney and spleen are the initial area of infection, and should show necrosis. The gill may have thickened lamellae, and the liver may have pyknotic nuclei. Skeletal muscle accumulates blood but does not suffer much damage.[15]

The things I've read about this kill specifically say that this has been happening in this area since 2005, so this one might be VHSV. Hope they publish the results.

 

[Reannan]

Just want to say that I am proud of all of you guys for keeping track of this stuff. Thank you! I sure don't have any answers, but then again - our "officials" don't seem to have many answers that make any sense either.

 

[IWannaKnow]

As suggested by carbuff in the Groundhog Day Storm thread, I wonder if this could have anything to do with the mass die-offs:
http://blog.al.com/space-news/2011/01/huntsvilles_9_inch_january_sno.html
Huntsville's 9-inch snowfall featured rare lightning, thundersnow, gravity wave combination
Published: Monday, January 31, 2011, 6:15 AM
By Lee Roop, The Huntsville Times

Lightning is rare in snowstorms, but can happen when updrafts carry ice particles aloft where they collide and swap electrons, building an electrical charge. However, sustained updrafts are also uncommon in snowstorms. That's where the gravity waves come in, Knupp said.

Wind blowing out of the east on the night of the storm bumped into and was pushed over Monte Sano, a university press release said. In a gravity wave, which can generate heavy snow, air is pushed up ahead of the wave and falls down the back.

Knupp said 11 gravity waves rippled across Huntsville and Madison County that night. They cause rapid cooling in clouds, and that might have triggered the heavy snow. One wave passed over moments before a National Weather Service employee reported an inch of snow fall in 20 minutes, UAH said.

http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/64/
Gravity wave defined

 

[waltzingmatilda]

I wanted to share this fun vid with you all!

[video=youtube;GXPNnGHNWdw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXPNnGHNWdw[/video]

 

[waltzingmatilda]

I am bumping this up to link this story about the recent earthquakes in AK.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41638358/ns/us_news/

This story eludes to the fact that the shale drilling companies could be responsible.

I watched a great Documentary on HBO Sunday called GasLand. I highly recommend watching it as it is worthwhile. I learned a couple things.

VP Dick Cheney quietly exempted drilling companies from answering to watchdog groups, the clean water act, the clean air act, EPA, superfund. Isn't Halliburton DC's company?

The shale drilling companies are contaminating the groundwater and people's wells are so polluted that their water actually BURNS when exposed to flame. The drilling companies are not required to reveal the toxic chemicals used in the process.

The drilling companies denounce pollution and deteriorating health claims by residents and dare them to prove it, knowing that the poor people cannot afford repesentation. Or they settle and pay them off.

One family's animals' hair fell out. horses, dogs cats. Another lady froze dead birds and rabbits she found dead to keep as specimens. Many families are getting sick with resperatory problems, headaches, etc.

Each of these sites has a holding site for the toxic water which is called processed water, IIRC. Sprayers are placed in the sludge pond which are called evaporators. The water is sprayed into the atmosphere to evaporate and disperse.

There were 'vents' in one stream where gas was escaping and the stream water could be lit afire. Fish kills have occured in streams polluted by the drilling.

US states featured in the documentary included PA, AK, TX, CO, WY and IIRC, UT and ID.

This doc was the most appalling example of the injustices that occur to private landowners in our country. They have no say so when the shale companies choose to drill on their land although they do receive compensation which is nothing compared to the raping of their land and the groundwater pollution and the subsequent health consequences.

I have now made up my mind on the poll. I am voting Government coverup since drilling companies are exempt from the guidelines of the very agencies that were put in place to protect our citizens and environment.

I'd be interested to know if these bird kills occured in close proximity to any drilling sites.

I hope my recall on details of the documentary are accurate. I plan to tivo it if it's shown again. It has taken me from Sunday til now to pick my chin up off the floor and get my jaw back in place.

wm

BTW, My dbf is from MT, where alot of drilling is taking place. He and his family are watching this closely as they own family property there. (around 50 acres IIRC which isn't much for MT really) Anyway,word is, a rich lady from around Billings who is either an heiress or owner or something to do with the Mars candy company, is taking a stand to prevent the companies from drilling on her land....and she has the money to do it!

I'd be interested in all of your thoughts on this as I had no idea that such a thing was going on right under my nose!

 

[IWannaKnow]

Thanks for posting that wm. I too saw Gasland recently and have been deeply disturbed by it since. I'm terrified that we are going to destroy every drop of water on our part of the planet between this natural gas drilling and the BP oil spill. The part where they showed the gas bubbling out of the creek and the dead animals made me think the same things you are thinking, and I think tlcox was saying this way back at the beginning of the thread, however I can't see how our natural gas drilling could affect animals in England, Italy and Sweden. While I have no doubt that we have been sold down the creek so some fat cat oil man can make another dollar, I'm uncertain if this is directly related to the mass deaths we saw around New Years. Equally confusing is that we haven't had more, except spotty incidences that can almost be directly traced back to the winter weather when you have fish and birds floating in ice. I would think that if the fracking where responsible, we would be seeing mass deaths on a daily basis, but that is simply my humble opinion. I scan the news every day looking for new episodes, but haven't found anything yet that can't be linked to the USDA poisoning them, or the cold killing them.

IDK wm. But ITA that it is deeply troubling......where do these people think they are going to live when they have destroyed the planet for the allmighty $$$$? I particularly liked the comment about "lets build solar panels instead" of all this natural gas drilling. I'm very glad to hear that lady is standing up to them! :clap:

 

[waltzingmatilda]

IWK, I am providing a link to GasLand for reference in case other sleuths are not familiar with the documentary.

http://www.hbo.com/#/documentaries/gasland

Thanks for responding. I always enjoy your reasoning and logical insight.

I am deeply troubled by this. I live on the coast and would much rather view wind turbines on a sand bar in the Atlantic vs. not being able to swim in the water or drink it!
Heck, I am ready to begin stockpiling water!!!

As for the bird deaths overseas, IDK. If toxins sprayed into the atmosphere are picked up by a weather system which travels to foreign destinations before rain falls then it may be possible. But I am not scientifically minded and have no idea how to follow weather patterns.

wm

 

[IWannaKnow]

Well, what the heck, might as well go here now. The article wm posted said they weren't sure the earthquakes were related to the gas drilling, well, just try googling.....ooops. Maybe they don't want to know. :slap:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/12/gas-drilling-might-be-res_n_215080.html

Gas Drilling Might Be Responsible For Series Of Earthquakes In Texas
JEFF CARLTON | 06/12/09 06:22 PM

CLEBURNE, Texas — The earth moved here on June 2. It was the first recorded earthquake in this Texas town's 140-year history _ but not the last. There have been four small earthquakes since, none with a magnitude greater than 2.8. The most recent ones came Tuesday night, just as the City Council was meeting in an emergency session to discuss what to do about the ground moving.

The council's solution was to hire a geology consultant to try to answer the question on everyone's mind: Is natural gas drilling _ which began in earnest here in 2001 and has brought great prosperity to Cleburne and other towns across North Texas _ causing the quakes?

http://www.mysanantonio.com/default...quakes-linked-to-post-gas-drilling-790922.php

Study: Texas quakes linked to post-gas drilling process
Merrisa Brown, By Angela K. Brown - Associated Press
Published 12:00 a.m., Thursday, March 11, 2010

The quakes occurred about a third of a mile from a disposal well on Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport property, and no quakes have been reported in that area since the well stopped operating last fall, according to the study. Disposal wells are much deeper and different from gas wells.

Researchers believe that when wastewater from the gas extraction process was injected into that disposal well, it could have affected a nearby and relatively inactive fault line running along the Dallas and Tarrant county lines, "reactivating it and generating the DFW earthquakes," said Brian Stump, an SMU geophysicist who worked on the study.

"We have a correlation between the time and space of the wastewater disposal and the earthquakes," Stump, who's chairman of SMU's Department of Earth Sciences, said Wednesday. "But actual gas drilling in the area didn't correlate with the earthquakes."

Airport spokesman David Magana said the wastewater well activity stopped immediately when questions about it arose last summer. The airport, which signed a gas drilling lease with Chesapeake Energy in 2006, now has one disposal well and 112 gas wells.

http://www.cleburnetimesreview.com/...s-two-re-injection-wells-down-as-a-precaution

Chesapeake shuts two re-injection wells down as a precaution
Earthquake research continues
By Matt Smith/[email protected]
August 14, 2009

Dr. Brian Stump, SMU chairman of geological sciences, said operations at the [DFW Airport] re-injection well seem more likely to be the cause of quakes in that area than does the fracing process used in drilling wells.

The well at DFW is located about 2,400 feet from a fault line, according to reports.

The Cleburne well also lies near a fault line.

Re-injection wells usually run 10.000 feet or more deep compared with gas wells, which run 6,000 to 7,000 feet deep.

http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/d...-quakes_09met.ART.State.Edition2.50d901a.html

It's happening in West Virginia too.

http://doddridgenews.com/?p=672
Earthquakes Near Disposal Well for Gas Drilling Fluids
September 7, 2010

Eight small earthquakes in central West Virginia since April
have Chesapeake Energy and the state Department of Environmental Protection discussing the possibility of seismic monitoring near a disposal well for gas-drilling fluids.

Oklahoma-based Chesapeake has injected more than 10.6 million gallons of brine and hydraulic fracturing fluid into the well since March 2009. The underground injection site in the Frametown, WV area has been a permitted disposal well since 2008.

Some geologists suspect high pressure and waste water have lubricated old fault lines, allowing them to slip and trigger small earthquakes. Chesapeake isn’t so sure, but it has agreed to reduce the volume of fluid it’s injecting

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raying: Mother :earth:, please forgive us for what they are doing to you in ignorance, hubris and greed. :tears: :no: :whiteflag: raying:

 

[Soulmagent]

Hey, I forgot all about my hubbys conspiracy theory. I did ask him but forgot to post his answer to why he thought the BP oil leak was a cover story.

It has to do with Methane gas leaks from the ocean floor, and all over the world. A more active ring of fire and the madrid earth quarke that is supposedly 99 pecent going to happen by 2012. He thinks they were diverting attention from the real reason of activity in the gulf by creating a controlled oil leak in the ocean and the live 24/7 video footage was to draw unquestioning veiwers.
He said something about why would a company who had an accident like that allow that to be filmed and shown to the public 24/7.
I said "I dunno" and ran way!

I mean maybe some stuff has a little bit of truth to it but he will lump it and relate unrelated stuff and next thing you know the BP oil rig was really a ufo mining for lost gold from alantis ( my factious theory not his,his are not that nuts)

My best friend called me yesterday and told me solar flares are why my big screen TV blew up. a x2.2 she said. Will my homeowners cover that?

 

[IWannaKnow]

IWK, I am providing a link to GasLand for reference in case other sleuths are not familiar with the documentary.

http://www.hbo.com/#/documentaries/gasland

Thanks for responding. I always enjoy your reasoning and logical insight. ty! :blushing:

I am deeply troubled by this. I live on the coast and would much rather view wind turbines on a sand bar in the Atlantic vs. not being able to swim in the water or drink it!
Heck, I am ready to begin stockpiling water!!! Me too!

As for the bird deaths overseas, IDK. If toxins sprayed into the atmosphere are picked up by a weather system which travels to foreign destinations before rain falls then it may be possible. But I am not scientifically minded and have no idea how to follow weather patterns.

wm

That was my original hypothesis - lol. I am having to backtrack on myself! I still think it is possible, but I really don't know. If it was the weather system that weekend, it must have been something very special and different (and I can't figure out what that was) to cause all this since it hasn't really happened since. I cannot reconcile the fact that the mass deaths stopped, but the ng drilling is still going full bore. I keep waiting for another incident to try to have a few more data points to compare. :countsheep:

 

[legalmania]

Hey, I forgot all about my hubbys conspiracy theory. I did ask him but forgot to post his answer to why he thought the BP oil leak was a cover story.

It has to do with Methane gas leaks from the ocean floor, and all over the world. A more active ring of fire and the madrid earth quarke that is supposedly 99 pecent going to happen by 2012. He thinks they were diverting attention from the real reason of activity in the gulf by creating a controlled oil leak in the ocean and the live 24/7 video footage was to draw unquestioning veiwers.
He said something about why would a company who had an accident like that allow that to be filmed and shown to the public 24/7.
I said "I dunno" and ran way!

I mean maybe some stuff has a little bit of truth to it but he will lump it and relate unrelated stuff and next thing you know the BP oil rig was really a ufo mining for lost gold from alantis ( my factious theory not his,his are not that nuts)

My best friend called me yesterday and told me solar flares are why my big screen TV blew up. a x2.2 she said. Will my homeowners cover that?

If you can remember BP didn't want to show that footage. They fought it at first, but something changed their minds. I don't think 11 people would die and they would lose a rig worth millions, not to mention the jobs and the people who were affected by this, just to hide a methane gas leak. If the methane gas was so bad wouldn't the fish be dying at an alarming rate in the Atlantic and Pacific and all over the world ? If the aliens needed gold wouldn't they just beam up Fort Knox?

 

[IWannaKnow]

Woo Hoo! This is pretty exciting....:woohoo:

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/...flocks-beebe-after-bird-deaths/?news-arkansas
Film crew flocks to Beebe after bird deaths
By Jeanni Brosius
Thursday, March 3, 2011 10:41 a.m

John Rubin, president of John Rubin Productions Inc., brought his film crew to Beebe from Cambridge, Mass., to film a documentary on wildlife death for the Explorer series on the National Geographic Channel. Although the film will include wildlife deaths from other areas of the world, the main focus is the red-winged blackbirds that mysteriously died of blunt-force trauma on New Year’s Eve in Beebe.

I like Nat Geo. I will definitely be watching for this....:hen:

 

[Reality Orlando]

More dead fish...yikes!

Billions of dead fish invade Redondo's King Harbor Marina

http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_17564875?source=rss_viewed

 

[kgeaux]

Just dropping in to share that I've got a few red-winged blackbirds showing up at my feeders. Not nearly as many as I usually have, and later in the year than they usually show up, but at least I have some.

 

[Reality Orlando]

That's great news. My feeders have birds visiting as well. I love the red wings. What feed do you use to attract them?

 

[IWannaKnow]

More dead fish...yikes!

Billions of dead fish invade Redondo's King Harbor Marina

http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_17564875?source=rss_viewed

Thanks for that Reality Orlando. The article you posted stated the water had no oxygen:

Brent Scheiwe, director of the Los Angeles Conservation Corps' SEA Lab on Harbor Drive, said tests revealed the water contained virtually no oxygen.

and

In addition to testing the water's oxygen level, biologists also checked to make sure no pollutants, oils or other chemicals could have killed the fish. Hughan said the water was clean, but sea gull droppings washed off the breakwall by the strong waves could have contributed to erasing the water's oxygen level.

Fish and Game authorities collected some of the dead fish and packaged them for express delivery to their laboratory in Rancho Cordova. Necropsies will be performed to determine if any other factors beyond the water's oxygen level contributed to their deaths.

There have been several incidents of mass fish die offs but each one thus far can be attributed to extreme cold, they even report the fish are under ice, so I have not been posting them because they don't seem to fit the previous episode. This article is implying that the fish were driven into this bay by the storm and there were so many of them they used up all the oxygen in a very short time. There haven't been anymore bird deaths either, and I thought there would be some after the tornados coming out of Lousiana this weekend, so IDK.

Glad to hear that red wings are showing up at feeders!

 

[wfgodot]

Arkansas town wary of dead blackbirds this weekend

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Thousands of dead blackbirds rained down on a town in central Arkansas last New Year's Eve after revelers set off fireworks that spooked them from their roost.
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Scientists say the loud cracks and booms from celebratory fireworks sent the birds crashing into homes, cars and each other before plummeting to their deaths last New Year's Eve.
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The blackbird die-off flung the state into the national headlines and drew conspiracy theorists and filmmakers to the region.

Police in Beebe say they'll step up patrols this year near where the blackbirds roost to make sure no one tries to spook them again.

 

[bessie]

I've been thinking about those birds all month. LOL Yes, I realize that in itself is strange, but I can't help it. I was frustrated with no answers last year.