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Birds in the Bay Area are mysteriously exploding mid-air. What is going on?
Not The Bee ^ | May 19, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 05/19/2025 7:04:22 AM PDT by Red Badger

Bay area residents are reporting that dozens of birds are exploding and falling out of the sky mid flight.

One ring camera caught the instant of a bird's demise on video. I've time stamped it in this report.

VIDEO AT LINK.........

There's a pop and then it drops.

Residents watching it happen explain it like this:

‘So when they land and it happens, they just quickly explode and it's really violent,' Richmond resident Maximillian Bolling told KGO-TV.

And

'It sounded like a firecracker, and a black bird — a starling — just plummeted to the ground,' witness Mark Hoehner told ABC News. 'I've been under the birds when it happens, and I know where the sound is coming from. It's coming from up on the pole.'

The sound coming from up on the pole caused the residents to call the electrical company, who had fish and wildlife come out and inspect the birds.

‘They have shared that the birds show no evidence of electrocution, and that their deaths were caused by trauma, potentially from a pellet or BB gun, or slingshot,' the utility said in a statement.

But the residents aren't satisfied with that answer.

‘I feel like a BB gun doesn't make a firecracker noise,' resident Heather Jones told the outlet. ‘This sounds exactly like a firecracker.'

The folks on the internet have their own ideas about what is causing the birds to pop and drop.

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


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: birds; california; popanddrop; sanfrancisco; wildlife
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To: Red Badger

That sounds really cool. I’d really like to see exploding birds.


61 posted on 05/19/2025 8:56:50 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: laplata

That was my thought.
In the 70s iirc there were a group of boys detained for feeding them to seagulls to watch them explode.


62 posted on 05/19/2025 9:34:26 AM PDT by kalee
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To: kalee

I grew up on a ranch and any kind of animal abuse was not tolerated. My Dad would not stand for it and we never did it. Dad was a WW II vet and old school and we knew better so we never got our butts kicked for doing it.


63 posted on 05/19/2025 9:42:36 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: himno hero
"Draino and Bread."

I remember them. Terrible band.

64 posted on 05/19/2025 10:10:55 AM PDT by omni-scientist
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To: Red Badger

ANYONE who tortures an animal is mentally sick and should be considered dangerous.


65 posted on 05/19/2025 10:31:40 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: Red Badger

66 posted on 05/19/2025 10:58:41 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Red Badger

‘I feel like a BB gun doesn’t make a firecracker noise,’ resident Heather Jones told the outlet. ‘This sounds exactly like a firecracker.’

What nimrods in SF. Everyone in Chicago knows what gunfire sounds like and the caliber!


67 posted on 05/19/2025 11:04:01 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: laplata

Yes, I told him that was like a three “S” thing.
Shoot, Shovel, and the most important SHUT UP!


68 posted on 05/19/2025 11:45:37 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

That’s right.


69 posted on 05/19/2025 1:07:39 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Chickensoup

Clickbait

fwiw

The mystery of San Francisco’s ‘exploding’ birds is solved
As birds popped like firecrackers and fell out of the sky, locals thought power lines were to blame. The truth is more shocking

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/california-exploding-birds-dead-richmond-jrct5p06d


70 posted on 05/19/2025 1:23:17 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: logi_cal869

that information about alka seltzer and fish guts was useful


71 posted on 05/19/2025 1:34:01 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Red Badger

Probably from carrying coconuts


72 posted on 05/19/2025 1:38:38 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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