Blackbirds falling in the dead of night:Investigation under way after 1,000 tumble from Arkansas sky

Dailymail ^ | 1/3/10 | Lewis Bazley

[goat granny]

chuckles to you and your psychotic cardinal. They are an agressive bird and chase others away from my feeders, but I didn’t know they were so selective in their enemies...:O)

[Levante]

That is hilarious!!!!

Where did you get it? It’s awesome!!!!!!!!

Thanks for sharing!!!!

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6183144/are_the_arkansas_earthquakes_related.html?cat=9

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep/new-madrid-fault.html

[metmom]

This is making the rounds of smaller publications, but not the MSM yet.

Bye Bye Blackbird: USDA acknowledges a hand in one mass bird death

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/0120/Bye-Bye-Blackbird-USDA-acknowledges-a-hand-in-one-mass-bird-death

It’s not the “aflockalyptic” fallout from a secret US weapon lab as some have theorized. But the government acknowledged Thursday that it had a hand in one of a string of mysterious mass bird deaths that have spooked residents in Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, South Dakota, and Kentucky in the last month.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) took responsibility for hundreds of dead starlings that were found on the ground and frozen in trees in a Yankton, S.D., park on Monday.

The USDA’s Wildlife Services Program, which contracts with farmers for bird control, said it used an avicide poison called DRC-1339 to cull a roost of 5,000 birds that were defecating on a farmer’s cattle feed across the state line in Nebraska. But officials said the agency had nothing to do with large and dense recent bird kills in Arkansas and Louisiana.