Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Blackbirds falling in the dead of night:Investigation under way after 1,000 tumble from Arkansas sky
Dailymail ^ | 1/3/10 | Lewis Bazley

Posted on 01/03/2011 11:15:49 AM PST by Kartographer

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-84 next last
To: Kartographer

Hmmmmmm, Earthquake, Fish, and Birds......Wasn’t there an earthquake roughly in the same area a few days ago? Wonder if there is some kind of connection?


61 posted on 01/03/2011 12:50:06 PM PST by R_Kangel (`.`)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Levante
The cats of Beebe and their Big Damn Laser

Look at all the Beebers on the run!

62 posted on 01/03/2011 12:55:10 PM PST by frithguild (The Democrat Party Brand - Big Government protecting Entrenched Interests from Competition)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: Kartographer

According to the Autopsies, they died from blunt force trauma to thier internal organs. I read this from the Yahoo news. Very strange indeed.


63 posted on 01/03/2011 12:55:50 PM PST by waxer1 ("The Bible is the rock on which our republic rests." -Andrew Jackson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: frithguild

Leon Lett's revenge on Don Beebe.

64 posted on 01/03/2011 12:57:24 PM PST by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: Cletus.D.Yokel

most birds dont fly at night/


65 posted on 01/03/2011 1:05:07 PM PST by Chickensoup (Protecting US interests ONLY if US interests move back into the States and give US citizens jobs.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Those Red winged Blackbirds are stupid...every year when they return to Michigan in the spring, quite a few build their nests in the cattail swamp behind my property.

For about the first 3 weeks when they return, I get them flying into my back bay window. They just BANG into it..Its surprising none have broken their necks yet..sometimes after they hit the window, I find them sitting on my deck squawking.

It seems that they quit about the time the female starts sitting eggs. But they have done this for the last 10 years I have lived in this house.

66 posted on 01/03/2011 1:05:37 PM PST by goat granny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: goat granny

Territorial males fighting their reflection.

Cardinals do it too, among other birds.


67 posted on 01/03/2011 1:18:43 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: Tijeras_Slim
I know, I know. A true gauge of 'zero' is not possible. It can approach zero, but cannot reach it, because if it takes zero lead spheres of a particular diameter to weigh a pound, then said diameter must be infinity.

in fact, my experimental shotgun measures 0.0025 gauge (it's barrel diameter is approx. one foot), but "Zero Gauge" is a MUCH more marketable name, if not exactly technically correct.

I suppose it could also be expressed as "AAA-1/2", or some such, but "Zero Gauge" still has a nicer ring to it, don't you think?

You CAN fit an awful lot of bird-shot in each shell, though, I can assure you of that.

;-)

68 posted on 01/03/2011 1:25:01 PM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: WayneS

At 585 #9 per ounce you bet!

Did you know a .22 smoothbore could techincally be called a 500 gauge?


69 posted on 01/03/2011 1:29:11 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Pablo lives jubtabulously!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 68 | View Replies]

To: WayneS

or Karl Rove or Dick Cheney


70 posted on 01/03/2011 1:29:40 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Niuhuru

or those Southern Amish white birds.


71 posted on 01/03/2011 1:34:34 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: SandRat

Hehe, or those airplanes.


72 posted on 01/03/2011 2:07:39 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies]

To: RegulatorCountry

Thanks, I thought they just were trying to scare me into moving...:O). Never though of reflections. Since I have cardinals year around they aren’t a problem except they are agressive at the bird feeders. Dumb Red wings must forget from year to year. I have never seen a Red Wing at the feeders, I wonder what they eat...


73 posted on 01/03/2011 2:35:11 PM PST by goat granny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: goat granny
I had one as an alarm clock one year.

The light must have hit a certain angle at that time in the morning and it would peck & bang so relentlessly I was forced to get up and "make like a tree and go away"(Back to the Future III)

74 posted on 01/03/2011 2:47:22 PM PST by de.rm (Bang, bang, . . bang. Shhh=Bush, the elder, E. Howard Hunt, LBJ, Mrs, Edgar Hoover)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: WayneS

A single barrel punt gun is real and for the purpose of massive bird kills

They were used for market killing on the Chesapeake Bay

75 posted on 01/03/2011 2:58:41 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 .....( History is a process, not an event ))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Esther Ruth

I usually don’t pay much attention to Alex Jones/Prison Planet articles however a posted comment and the linked pdf (85 Pages with photos) is very interesting.

As I recommended on another posting, anyone knowledgeable should investigate/verify the below:

“Can YOU afford to drink fracking fluid? “Arkansas Fisk Kill” was 2.5 miles from “Injection Well.”

From the below linked report:

In some states, the term “landfarm” has been used to describe those facilities that accept water-based fluids or muds from companies that drill wells for the extraction of natural gas or oil. The Environmental Preservation and Technical Services Division of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), with the assistance of the ADEQ Water Division, was tasked with assessing the impacts of such landfarms in the state. The study included the 11 facilities that were, or had recently been in operation.

Four are in Sebastian County, two each in Franklin and White Counties, and one each in Conway, Johnson, Lonoke and Yell Counties.

The landfarms all have some combination of the following elements: storage ponds, storage tanks, application fields, monitoring wells, and natural water bodies. Samples were taken, where possible, in each of these available elements following the “Drilling Fluid Disposal Site Sampling” protocol below. All laboratory analyses were conducted at the ADEQ laboratory. During site visits, staff from the Environmental Preservation Section were always accompanied by an ADEQ water inspector familiar with the facility.

Summary Of Findings:
Eleven facilities authorized for a no-discharge permit were evaluated between November 25, 2008 and January 20, 2009. The permits are for storage and land application of drilling fluids generated by natural gas drilling activities. When conditions allowed, offsite streams were sampled above and below the landfarms. Conductivity, measured in the field, and samples analyzed in the lab (chlorides, total dissolved solids, etc.) indicate fluids are discharged to waters of the state by all eleven facilities. Many downstream sample concentrations of these constituents exhibited an increase over upstream samples by at least an order of magnitude, and clearly exceeded Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission’s Regulation No. 2 stream values.

http://www.intheairwebreathe.com/ADES_landfarm_report_1-2009.pdf


76 posted on 01/03/2011 5:20:22 PM PST by luckybogey
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: HerrBlucher

It’s called cloud suck and you’re taught to tuck the bar and fly as fast as possible to the perimeter.

In some instances, I’ve heard of hangglider pilots cutting themselves from the hang loops and deploying their parachutes.

All hang glider pilots fly with parachutes (some rocket or pneumatic deploy assisted) and carry hook knives.

Eddie01
Hang 4


77 posted on 01/03/2011 5:23:45 PM PST by Eddie01
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: goat granny
A few years ago, a psychotic cardinal took up residence on our property. It ended up completely destroying the passenger side mirror on one of our Saab 900s.

It persistently and consistently attacked its own reflection in the passenger side mirror of one particular car (at that time we had four 80s vintage Saab 900s in the driveway). No matter where in the driveway it was parked, the bird attacked THAT car's passenger side mirror every single day, with claws and beak.

In less than a week the mirror was so scratched up it was all but unusable. I thought about shooting the bird but I found its behavior so fascinatiung, not to mention hilarious, that I let it go (the fact that I have a large stock of spare parts for 'old-style' Saab 900s on hand also entered in to my decision).

After two full weeks of daily bird attacks, I replaced the mirror glass and covered the passenger side mirror of the car with a paper bag whenever I parked it. The bird stuck around the property a while longer, but did not choose another target for its wrath. Later in the season it moved on, and has not returned.

78 posted on 01/04/2011 5:29:39 AM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: bert

Yes.

I think they are 2 Gauge.

Nice poster/photo, by the way!


79 posted on 01/04/2011 5:35:23 AM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies]

To: luckybogey

Matt Drudge has InfoWar link and also link within article to -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-CrNlilZho

Youtube - Endgame


80 posted on 01/04/2011 8:31:27 AM PST by Esther Ruth
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 76 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-84 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson