Posted on 01/20/2005 7:14:55 PM PST by SLB
At noon today the MP's had a section of Wilson Road blocked off. It was later announced that 60+ Starlings had all died near the old Anderson Golf Course. The birds were all in a very small area. The post MEDCOM did not find any evidence of toxins, but . . . . . . . .
Ft Knox is in a hazardous weather watch now and it looks like there may have been a line of thunderstorms move through earlier in the day.
Lightening strike?
We're doomed! Doomed I tell you!
[Dig out the tinfoil and lets hear some theory on this one.]
I've got mine ready!
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Gotta love my neighbors. Nary a single dead bird in the yard here thus far.
It's probably due to EM's being release from the earths surface when the collision with the two icebergs in Antartica caused the poles to switch positions for a split second.
Be prepared for a humongous earthquake on the east coast of America.
"My Dad used to bait them in and let me blaze away..."
Mmmmmmm.....Blaze.....
Got too many dead birds hanging around? It could have been solved with this (from CNN, 1/20/05):
ROSWELL, New Mexico (AP) -- A routine traffic stop Wednesday led to the discovery of more than 60 sick and hungry cats in the back of a moving van driven by a 71-year-old woman.
Mary Jane Lyle pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of animal cruelty at a court appearance. She was being held in a Chaves County detention center.
If prosecuted, the charges carry possible prison time.
An officer pulled over the van because one of its taillights was out. While the officer was talking to Lyle, he heard noises coming from the back.
"Our officer heard a cat that appeared to be injured in some way," said police spokesman Robert Giles.
Lyle said she had a cat. But when the officer opened the back of the truck, he discovered 63.
Two of the cats were dead and the others were "in various stages of health," Giles said.
The cats were turned over to local animal control officers.
Police said Lyle was traveling from Minden, Michigan, to Tucson, Arizona.
Starlings are particularly sensitive to West Nile virus, and the health department here in Memphis has asked that any dead birds be reported to them for disposal.
I want one!!
Bug-spray? We ought to look into this.
Starlings (and house sparrows) were actually introduced in the 1800's in NY's Central Park by some English asshat who wanted to bring to America all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare's plays. Nice work, Lord Half-a-Head.
THE FIRST SETTLERS
The European Starling is not native to America. In the late 1800’s Eugene Scheiffelin set out to introduce to America all of the birds depicted in Shakespeare’s writings. Scheiffelin released sixty starlings in Central Park in March of 1890 and forty more the following year. From this small group of founders came all of the starlings that you see in America today!
STARLINGS TODAY
Within seventy years starlings had usurped the continental United States and most of Canada. By 1970 they had reached the Arctic Circle. The current population of starlings in North America ranges from over two hundred million to estimates as high as a billion. Starlings force native species such as bluebirds, woodpeckers, flickers and purple martins out of their natural habitats. They are extremely adaptable to man’s urban environment - so as we progress so do they. In addition to their natural diet of insects, berries and seed, starlings will eat human food like french fries, cookies and popcorn.
Kill one today.
Saw the smiley, but I have to point out something about the gold in Ft. Knox. Sure, there is a =lot= of gold there, but ain't hardly any of it owned by the U.S. government. Most of are gold reserves for other countries. A bunch of it is owned by the federal reserve banks, but almost none by the govt itself.
5.56mm
Kendrick Starling is dead?
Now I don't care who you are...Thats Funny!
I remember that...that shot was about 400 yards...downhill...in the rain...at night...with a wind of about 15 mph...good thing he had that lazer light and hydrodynamic rangefinder/stabilizer on his shotgun.
...p.s....I'm just kidding...;-)
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