Um ... where is Draper?
clues for the FReepers?
Any indication of the type of bird?
Perhaps they wanted to be close to you, Elle.
It happens...
Possible Causes of Bird Falling From Sky
Bird Biology
Birds unique biology allows them to fly, but also can cause them to fall. For instance if bird feathers become soaked in many cases they cannot maintain flight and will actually fall very quickly. This may be the case when large number of birds are found dead after a sever storm. Birds also fly between different air currents; they can quickly become frozen and unable to maintain flight. As is true with any creature there can also be natural causes; it is not uncommon for birds to experience health problems midair that result in death. Some scientists speculate the presence of an avian disease or disorder that causes birds to fall from the sky.
A couple of years ago, on the Massachusetts Turnpike near Boston, they were finding large numbers of dead crows by the side of the road, which at the time, made them very concerned about Avian Flu.
The tests came back negative, so they were really puzzled, trying to figure out why all these dead crows were appearing on the side of this very busy highway. They spent something like $100K to bring in some bird specialists to study the issue (which made me crazy-who spends that kind of money on a damned bird study!) and when they did autopsies on the carcasses, they found a very curious thing: crows don’t normally get hit by cars, but they found that all of them had evidence of impact trauma and automobile paint on them.
So they spent several days observing crows in the area, and they figured out what it was. They observed that crows feeding on carrion in the road depend on other crows to stand watch off to the side and sound an alarm when a vehicle approaches.
Time after time, when a sedan approached, the crow on the side not eating would call out with a loud “Caaaah!” and the bird in the road would fly out of the way. But the eighteen wheelers would careen right into the feeding crow with no warning, and kill it. Apparently, crows in Boston knew how to say “Caaaah!” but couldn’t figure out how to say “Truck!”
(ducks)
They were drunk...no, I’m not kidding.
Bird Flew?...................
The clearly false reasons we get for these events which have become surprisingly common suggest to me that somebody knows. Lets pretend that we are dumb enough to believe that starlings fly high enough to freeze en masse, how would that explain the flocks that fall cooked? Is it some type of reverse physics like when blizzards are caused by global warming? What about the flocks that fall with shattered organs? Not a jet in sight, certainly none skipping around at rooftop elevation...must be avian ebola or something. Then again, maybe its caused by Venus reflecting off a weather ballon in a pocket of swampgas.
Anyone here recall when flocks of blackbirds would darken the sky?
It was in winter; I was driving my SUV locally on some errand. It was quite cold, and there was snow on the ground, but it wasn't snowing at that moment. Suddenly, a little group of four birds swooped together, at right angles to my direction of travel, right in front of me; they were flying in very tight formation, and obviously playing "follow the leader."
Their path took them below my field of view, and I heard a thump. I immediately looked in my rear-view mirror, and saw four dead birds skittering and flopping on the road behind me.
There was absolutely no time to put on the brakes or swerve; the whole thing was over in no more than two seconds, from first glimpse of the formation, to impact, to seeing them spinning on the road through my mirror.
Thousands of bar tailed godwits travel nearly 8000 miles from Alaska to New Zealand at heights of up to 20000 feet. Why do we not have reports from mariners of vast floating islands of fried godwits?
By the millions, mallards migrate at hights up to 21000 feet but neither frozen nor hypoxic ducks rain down on our towns.
The common crane flies over the Himalayas at up to 33000 feet from North Africa to Northern Europe through busy air lanes yet we do not find thousands of soaked or organ shattered cranes crashing all over Europe.
If John Wheeler hadn’t been offed and dumped in a dumpster in 2010 and the investgation put on the back burner by DA Beau Biden, we might have answers by now.