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Hundreds of birds fall from sky in Draper
KTSU ^ | January 30, 2018 | Elle Thomas

Posted on 02/02/2018 5:18:55 AM PST by BenLurkin

More than 200 birds fell from the sky onto a Draper street Monday, leading residents to wonder what caused this mass avian accident.

“It’s one of the rarest things I’ve ever heard of,” said Sergeant Chad Carpenter with the Draper City Police Department.

“As I was driving, these birds were just falling out of the sky,” said Draper resident, Lacey Brown as she was driving down the street on 300 East in Draper.

“They were all on the ground right around here and on the roadway,” Brown said, “They were just falling out of the sky like leaves,” she added.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox13now.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: birds; utah
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To: BenLurkin

As I thought. Fly in large flocks this time of year. Likely flew into a low oxygen layer.


21 posted on 02/02/2018 6:21:04 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

Wasn’t Les. It was Arthur “Big Guy” Carlson on the Thanksgiving episode. Les was on scene telling people that the turkeys were mounting a counter attack.


22 posted on 02/02/2018 6:47:35 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: rlmorel

Great story-———I guess our MA crows are libs and haven’t quite figured things out yet.

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23 posted on 02/02/2018 6:53:19 AM PST by Mears
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To: rjsimmon

Apologies for the defective memory...


24 posted on 02/02/2018 6:54:29 AM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity (Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)
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To: rlmorel

Good one. Lol!


25 posted on 02/02/2018 7:19:38 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: BenLurkin

Anyone here recall when flocks of blackbirds would darken the sky?


26 posted on 02/02/2018 7:24:57 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: BenLurkin
About ten years ago, I hit four birds at the same time while driving.

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.

27 posted on 02/02/2018 7:27:03 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Mears

Crows are definitely smarter than Lefties!


28 posted on 02/02/2018 7:57:14 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Blueflag

Seventeen birds are still alive and were transferred to a local rehabilitation center, the hope is they will recover and be released back into the wild.


29 posted on 02/02/2018 8:14:33 AM PST by Cats Pajamas (#releasethememo)
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To: rlmorel

;>)


30 posted on 02/02/2018 8:17:36 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


31 posted on 02/02/2018 9:42:41 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: BenLurkin; credo 2

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.


32 posted on 02/02/2018 12:17:03 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Winning isn't as easy as I make it look. -- Donald J. Trump)
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