Apparently there have appeared several rare species of birds in Denmark recently. From Mongolia and Siberia among other places. Seems like they´ve found a new home...

Originally posted by Comberman
But the good news is that even the smallest, unlikeliest of gardens or backyards will be adopted by birds if they can be attracted into it. Plant a tree or buy a bag of peanuts.
Goodness, I appear to be sounding off. My apologies if it appears to be so.
Regards

Comberman, great advise. While we should all do our part to help reduce human intrusion as much as possible - we can also be proactive and help what creatures we may. (I've been on a mission to fill my acre of trees with bat houses - I help them, they help me by eating the mosquitos from the pond). But there are only so many types of creatures we can help with an urbanized yard or garden. We may shelter bats, sparrows, raccoons, opossoms, squirls, rabbits, even skunks but many of these articles refer to sea birds and a garden won't help them. The long term affect of our abuse is be expresed by the oceans which affect the entire ecosystem. So, what can we do at this point to save the oceans and thus the world?

Gee, thanks coatimundi, for pointing out how silly I was for mentioning the magnetic shift. Since I have only heard for years how birds somehow rely on the magnetic field for navigation when they migrate. And I had recently read several articles on the subject by some rather heavy sources like Los Alamos and NASA, (check out: When north goes south:three dimensional simulation of geomagnetic field, plus others) silly me thought it was some how pertinent, at least interesting. Nor did I say that was the only posible reason, I even agreed that other environmental factors could be at work. --I've been around long enough to see the atmosphere turn from crystal clear to milky sour, and long enough to remember drinking naturally pure water right out of the spring with cupped hands.
And as to your allusion to my 'non-animal person-ness' I grew up on a farm, being around an assortment of animals constantly. I have trained, tamed, and been owned by numerous horses, dogs, cats and chickens since. Presently most of our acreage has been allowed to go 'feral' allowing for wildlife cover and forage, all organic, no pesticides, no fertilizers. I have also crusaded against cruel methods used in walking horse training. ( Hope ya'll aren't using some unkind method in training those birds? But you'll notice that I didn't just assume you were )

( "If you're not in the field or not familiar with a certain subject you'll always tend to form whatever kind of fanciful hypothesis you desire")--Kind of like your hypothesis that I was a silly idiot that needed to be insulted a couple of times for offering a comment on a scientific phenomenon. Ok, now I'm sure I've given you more fodder, have at me again.

Originally posted by masterp
The magnetic field of Earth is changing.

It could be our magnetic field is loosing strenght.

I had to dig this thread up after hearing about a local bird incident.

This story was reported on two local news stations here in South Florida, I have yet to find a link, but I am working on it.

Yesterday, 10-15 birds (looked like blackbirds or crows) were found dead and dying in an area around a gas station. There was construction going on in the area (Miami area) and workers reported seeing the flock of birds flying around and suddenly some of them dived straight into the ground killing themselves, others fell to the floor and died slowly twitching. The birds were all stiff by the time the reporters were on the scene.

I was wondering if perhaps the construction in the area could have released some gas or something that could have affected the birds?? I can't understand what would cause a dozen birds to just drop from the sky.

will update with a link as soon as I find one.

Yeah, the mainstream is more worried about the "big" stories, (not that some of these stories aren't important). Maybe these birds aren't "big" news to the media. Mixed up birds and mixed up weather is not good. We may have near 70 degree weather tommorrow here in Virginia, January! It wasn't that long ago I had my little finger starting to literally freeze in the cold. Some of the powers that be need to get there thumbs out of there... and start really getting behind programs to repair our planet, not just them but you and I. Heck with war, we'd better decide as a planet what we are going to do about our earth. That's one of the real wars we actually need to be fighting.

Troy

Originally posted by worldwatcher
I had to dig this thread up after hearing about a local bird incident.

This story was reported on two local news stations here in South Florida, I have yet to find a link, but I am working on it.

Yesterday, 10-15 birds (looked like blackbirds or crows) were found dead and dying in an area around a gas station. There was construction going on in the area (Miami area) and workers reported seeing the flock of birds flying around and suddenly some of them dived straight into the ground killing themselves, others fell to the floor and died slowly twitching. The birds were all stiff by the time the reporters were on the scene.

I was wondering if perhaps the construction in the area could have released some gas or something that could have affected the birds?? I can't understand what would cause a dozen birds to just drop from the sky.

will update with a link as soon as I find one.

Yes! I was googling to find something on this odd behavior of blackbirds, but to no avail. I witnessed a similar experience the other day. As I was leaving to go to the mall, I stepped outside and heard a ruckus in the trees, I would say about 1,000 or more blackbirds were flying back and forth, seeming to be unsettled, scared, worried, they flew back and forth, thousands of them, from branch to branch, the whole flock traveled back and forth making such a racket. Some of them dove right into each other, thus knocking themselves to the ground. Also, some of them drove right into the trees.

This whole ordeal went on for about maybe 20 minutes, unusually long, and unusually weird behavior for any kind of bird species I've seen.
When I returned home I checked the ground and there were many dead blackbirds on the ground below the trees where they plunged to their death.

This really got me to start thinking there really is something seriously wrong going on. What it is, I don't know.

*Oh, by the way, I don't live near a construction site like the blackbirds in the article. I live in rural new england. So it kind of factors out the idea that gases from the construction site in florida caused the blackbirds to freak out and dive into the ground.



[edit on 9/20/2005 by jeepin4x4girl]

Sentinel Warning: What may the birds be telling us?

Yes, we are creating way to many EMF waves and microwaving the earth.

[edit on 20-9-2005 by SpittinCobra]

I've seen two things in the past month that I've never seen here before. I live in Indiana just to put it in perspective. I saw on a clean concrete slab a black blotch. I inspected it closer to find this spot was tens of thousands of ants. I know this is abnormal because it was at my house and the most ants I have seen here at one time is maybe 10. Maybe a little more if a kid has dropped candy on the sidewalk. There was nothing there. It was the strangest thing I've seen.

I've lived back in this state for 10 years. We have endless geese. I hate them things personally but the other day was the first time I've seen them flying south in formation. Maybe this has happened before. I haven't seen it. Especially not twice in the same day. Those geese usually hang here for the winter.

Is there any possibility of a sudden, very brief and just located on a small part of land... reversal of the gravitational field of the earth causing this or is it the weather and winds that are changing and affecting animals and their usual behaviour?

I have been watching and listening the birds very closely here as i feel we are on the edge of something large about to happen. So far no changes, we have a large bat population that has been acting normal over the past few weeks. We have a large pidgeon population that also has been acting normal and so have the native birds and import/ migratory.

The ants have been acting normal here too, we have billions of those, both lemon flavour bummed huge green ones and the standard tropical, pinch your picnic types.

The crickets are not acting strange and there has been no reports of birds flying into windows and planes or getting lost. However there have been a few whale beachings along the coast that are of concern when watching the earths magnetics.