Where was Dick?
Posted on 01/02/2011 2:40:21 PM PST by TaraP
CNN) -- Arkansas game officials hope testing scheduled to begin Monday will solve the mystery of why up to 5,000 blackbirds fell from the sky just before midnight New Year's Eve.
The birds -- most of which were dead -- were found within a one-mile area of Beebe, about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said. The blackbirds fell over about a one-mile area, the commission said in a statement.
As of Saturday, between 4,000 and 5,000 blackbirds had been found dead, said Keith Stephens with the commission.
"Shortly after I arrived, there were still birds falling from the sky," said commission wildlife officer Robby King in the statement. He said he collected about 65 dead birds
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That’s weird.
...and pining for the fjords.
What is a twenty mile acre? ;)
“When the birds start whistling “Deutschland über alles”, you know you’re in trouble.”
Look out when they start singing the “We are the New World Order, we bring to the world disorder’ song from Spike Lee’s In The Fuhrer’s Face.
Earth’s magnetic poles reversing?
I have heard that as well....
Where was Dick?
Nerve gas test?
Volcanic Eruptions
Earthquakes
Methane Gas bubbling up...
Rivers and seas boiling, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.
Raining birds.
Better than hailing taxicabs.
I’ll be in town all week.
Or reining beauty queens.
Don’t forget to tipp your servers. You’ve been great !
No, they’re pining for the fjords ...
Hmm, illegal alien grackles! Time to dust off the punt gun...
Electrical related
I wouldn’t go jumping to conclusions just yet.
Most of what I saw in the video looked like red winged blackbirds. They are very common around here. As recently as a decade ago, they were even more numerous. You could see them take off at times and it would look like some huge moving black cloud. Their (seemingly) favorite food was a feed crop called milo. If you raised milo, you had lots of blackbirds. Could this have kept populations artificially high? In recent years, corn has replaced much of the acres that once produced milo. Hmm.
This is interesting. Hopefully an answer will be discovered soon, considering the number of specimens available for examination.
But then again, I said the same thing about the honey bee die-offs :(
Ok, that makes more sense now, thanks!
(Hope you feel better soon)
Their batteries died????...
What I find interesting is that something this weird and creepy happens and all that 90% of you can do is try and come up with a dumber joke than the last FReeper.
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