More dead birds - eyewitness report from Scottsboro, AL

Feb 24, 2011, Scottsboro AL

At approximately 10:15 AM CST, I encountered a groups of black, medium-sized birds lying dead along about a 100-yard stretch of AL Hwy. 35 just north of the Tennessee River in Scottsboro, AL. The birds were scattered across all 5 lanes of highway, from shoulder to shoulder and many showed no signs of encounters with traffic, especially those on the shoulders and in the rarely-used turning lane. Hwy. 35 in that area has light traffic and it is inconceivable that so many birds could be hit by traffic while alive over such a wide area.

I have no idea how long they had been there; authorities were not aware of the situation apparently, as traffic was forced to slow down for the phenomenon.

I was en route to school and could not get photographs, not have I had time to search for news links. I may also be unable to reply to this thread until late evening at least, as I do have college today starting in about 20 minutes. I just wanted to get this latest report out, so I am posting this form a computer in the school computer lab.

Reporting from Scottsboro Alabama, ATS member:
TheRedneck

reply to post by TheRedneck

Too bad, no pics. How many would you estimate? All the same species?

Very strange.

Very interesting... What mile marker? I'm in Chattanooga and have some free time today, I may just check it out. Kinda creepy.

Approximately how many birds would you guess there was? Just a few.. or a hundred or more?

Thanks for the info.

So was this on 35 on the scottsboro side of the bb comer bridge, or the sand mtn side? - just ask, because this is my neck of the woods. Star and flag redneck.

Thanks for posting. Been weird around here lately. Weather, now birds. I'm out the door to Huntsville in 10 mins from right above you on Sand Mtn. I'll have my camera with me and see if I can get some pics.

reply to post by TheRedneck


i live in grant,al.a couple weeks ago was crossing the first causway bridge leaving guntersville going towards scottsboro and there were approx. 50 dead birds laying.

reply to post by TheRedneck


i live in grant,al.a couple weeks ago was crossing the first causway bridge leaving guntersville going towards scottsboro and there were approx. 50 dead birds laying.

Holy chaos, that is way too close for comfort : / .. I'm not even thirty min away from there, hope I don't drop dead anytime soon..... World is soooo weird.

Not good at all. I might be wrong, but it seems to me a lot of these birds, especially in the south, have wound up dead along interstates? I wonder if it's something they're spraying on the areas around them. Or maybe something being released from some trucks using those interstates.

There is about 4 articles about this area, birds found in a neighborhood.

I don't know how to embed yet,I apologize. So here are the addresses.

www.walf.com

Thedailysentinel.com

Or just type in "Dead birds in Scottboro,Al

reply to post by TheRedneck


FRACKING!

Today's quake list

MAP 2.5 2011/02/24 17:28:13 35.262 -92.347 4.5 5 km ( 3 mi) NE of Greenbrier, AR
MAP 2.2 2011/02/24 16:30:53 35.280 -92.338 4.9 5 km ( 3 mi) S of Guy, AR
MAP 2.1 2011/02/24 16:23:56 35.263 -92.341 3.9 6 km ( 4 mi) NE of Greenbrier, AR
MAP 2.7 2011/02/24 15:07:11 35.271 -92.333 4.5 6 km ( 4 mi) S of Guy, AR
MAP 2.4 2011/02/24 15:01:17 35.262 -92.342 4.6 6 km ( 3 mi) NE of Greenbrier, AR
MAP 2.8 2011/02/24 12:18:49 35.295 -92.350 4.1 4 km ( 2 mi) SSW of Guy, AR
MAP 2.6 2011/02/24 11:12:22 35.282 -92.336 4.9 5 km ( 3 mi) S of Guy, AR
MAP 2.4 2011/02/24 10:21:26 35.273 -92.331 4.5 6 km ( 4 mi) S of Guy, AR
MAP 2.5 2011/02/24 09:57:28 35.286 -92.349 4.3 4 km ( 3 mi) SSW of Guy, AR
MAP 2.7 2011/02/24 09:12:16 35.285 -92.347 4.6 5 km ( 3 mi) SSW of Guy, AR
MAP 3.2 2011/02/24 07:35:24 35.340 -92.315 4.7 2 km ( 2 mi) NE of Guy, AR
MAP 2.5 2011/02/24 05:43:26 35.271 -92.339 5.4 6 km ( 4 mi) S of Guy, AR
MAP 2.5 2011/02/24 04:43:17 35.292 -92.344 5.1 4 km ( 2 mi) SSW of Guy, AR
MAP 2.2 2011/02/24 04:03:40 35.267 -92.346 5.4 6 km ( 4 mi) NE of Greenbrier, AR
MAP 2.8 2011/02/24 04:03:04 35.244 -92.377 6.0 2 km ( 1 mi) NNE of Greenbrier, AR
MAP 2.4 2011/02/24 01:11:54 35.259 -92.342 3.9 5 km ( 3 mi) NE of Greenbrier, AR
MAP 2.6 2011/02/24 00:29:03 35.275 -92.332 5.2 6 km ( 3 mi) S of Guy, AR
MAP 3.4 2011/02/24 00:24:45 35.287 -92.356 3.9 5 km ( 3 mi) SSW of Guy, AR


They are releasing gasses underground and injecting toxic doom waste back into the earth --- these gasses are following underground fissures or frackture and escaping. Canary in the Coal Mine. Cracking the Eggshell.

reply to post by ~Lucidity

This was a half comment. Could well be too that there are so many more we're not seeing because they are not happening near humans.

Hmmm...fracking.

I estimate maybe 50 or so birds. I wasn't able to actually count as I was in traffic, but that should be a good estimate. I also didn't have time to take a picture, but a lot of the birds were still there when I came back through about 6:15 PM CST.

Here is a Google map of the area for anyone who wants a more detailed location... the red circle is the approximate location. Notice that it is on the bridge across the backwater... no trees for them to have flown into. Just thought I would kill that theory right off.


Scottsboro is in the upper left and you can see the Tennessee River running from the upper right to the lower left. They were on the Scottsboro side of the BB Comer Bridge.

TheRedneck

reply to post by TheRedneck


There were other news articles regarding birds in this area. Were you around the area where the others found the birds?

reply to post by crappiekat

The closest report I know of was the ones along I-65 near Athens, AL. The location where I saw these is about 50-60 miles east of that.

Of course, the poster from Guntersville is much closer... maybe 20 miles to the southwest.

TheRedneck

Hmmm,. found on a highway?
Maybe they were scattered there for public viewing.

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Ok, Do you think they are close enough to be, a same bunch of birds? I thought it was interesting that when you posted your finding, people in the same area posted similar.
Since your in the area, is there a chance you could contact these other people and find out what they know?

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Hey I don't see any links on this recent die off. Is it possible that these are now being unreported so people don't ask questions?

reply to post by TheRedneck


Interesting. I wish you did have photos.

I will offer my usual suggestion that maybe the birds are flying into cloaked UFO's. Other than that, I have nothing. I just dont buy, personally, the flying into traffic thing, blackbirds arent stupid birds, they are actually pretty clever, and poison? I dont know of many poisons in which you would be doing vigorous physical exercise (flying) one minute, and then drop dead the next. Poison is notoriously slow and painful in most cases.

Just my two cents. Good reporting Redneck.