howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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6 January 2011
14:0887885#1
no tittering at the back please, between 30 and 40 thousand velvet crabs have been washed up along the coastline.
it is thought that global warming and climate change lured them here then the cold weather set in and they died of hypothermia.
there is also a lot of black sand that contains iron pyrite accompanying the crustaceans.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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6 January 2011
14:2187889#2
Again I did see this on the TV last night again so sad to see what man is doing to the planet .
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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6 January 2011
16:3787904#3
I missed this story but it sounds awful. Also concerning the planet as mentioned above there, have you seen the story in the US about birds falling out of the sky, I believe it also happened in Sweden yesterday too. Hundreds of crows I think it was. Very odd happenings. As we love our feathered friends on DF this will concern us. Nobody seems to know why its happening.
Keith Sansum1
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6 January 2011
19:2887950#4
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 676- Registered: 1 Jul 2008
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6 January 2011
22:4287975#5
PaulB
In the 1990s thousands of birds fell from the sky and staggered around before dying in the USA. After several months of tests the diagnosis was given as E coli infection of the air sacs.
Million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
Jan Higgins
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6 January 2011
23:3187983#6
Something like that has happened again Stewart, but I did not catch where it was and it did not seem as bad as before. It was on the TV news the other day.
Sorry Howard, I tittered.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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7 January 2011
01:2287986#7
I am sorry but I do not fine any of this funny,but sad
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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7 January 2011
15:0588029#8
Mr Matcham, the fun was in reply to Howard and his first post which referred to the threads title.
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Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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7 January 2011
17:1688055#9
There seem to be a few theories to explain this. One popular one is that the melting snow lowered the sea temperature and they died of hyperthermia. Don't worry, the crabs will be back - these mass strandings and dyings have always been part of nature. There are plenty more off shore to breed.
I remember wandering across the beaches at Sandwich Bay about five years ago one summer and seeing the beaches littered in thousands of tiny thumbnail jellyfish, probably sea gooseberries. There were countless hoards of them stretching for hundreds of yards. A mass stranding is always a sad sight.
7 January 2011
18:4188078#10
Yes i saw the same story all strange but the seagulls were having a feast
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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7 January 2011
20:4388097#11
More birds falling from the sky in Italy today, doves apparently
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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7 January 2011
21:1588100#12
Thank you for the post Jeane I did not catch where it was.
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Guest 676- Registered: 1 Jul 2008
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14 January 2011
01:5188867#13
Officials in Constanta, Romania have said that starlings that were found dead on Saturday didnt die of avian flu, tests carried out on the birds gizzards showed they had died of alcohol poisoning after eating some of the leftovers from wine-making
Million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
