Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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That is sad Jeane,as you know I love all the wildlfe,even this morning I was out feeding all the ducks and swans,they know me so well ,they come up all round me ad I feed them by hand even the swans let me run my hand down their backs and take the food from me,it does upset me when I read things like this.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Yes I know you are a great animal lover too Vic. I have flocks of starlings in my garden most days and recognise some of them - an almost white fronted one and a fat one who is the ring leader! They are so comical and such great comedians the way they can imitate sounds. I have a friend in the USA who rescued one and taught it to talk.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Sad that Jeane, and I think we`d all be interested to hear of any outcome on it, (excluding green men, grey`s, and other alien`s of course). Perhaps the local`s could use it for tourism purpose`s. The American`s love thing`s like that, and would be scratching their heads as to why it didn`t happen over there like various phenomena usually does. P.S. What I actually mean here Jeane is, I`m always interested in a factual explanation for unusual happening`s, but I don`t want to hear in 10 year`s time, someone talking about the starling mystery in 2010, and someone saw a flying saucer around that time. I`m sure you know what I mean. Sometimes these stories die and never heard of again until some cranky writer uses it for their own end`s.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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A strange phenomenon indeed. Could it have been an electronic pulse to clear the air of a prolification of starlings blocking the intended landing strip for our visitors from outer space? Or a business entrepreneur who has come up with a new idea of stunning our feathered friends so that the new planned airstrip at Lydd will not endanger future passengers on incoming/outgoing aircraft?
But the more important question is, Do you get fries with it?
Seriously though, this is odd and sad occurrence, what next? frogs?
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I'm wondering if it was poison (the bleeding from the beak suggests this could be a possibility.) It could also be a controlled culling if they were eating seeds / crops in which case the birds would die 6-24 hrs after ingesting the poison.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Possibly, but to all fall to the ground within a 12ft radius?
Brian Dixon
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jeane,they could have been shot,shotgun sounds about right espiesly the way they group together when they fly.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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I`d have thought at least one of them would have had some lead shot in it Brian, and I suspect a bang would`ve been heard beforehand.
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Quote Barry W-S: Possibly, but to all fall to the ground within a 12ft radius?
If the flock ingested the poison at the same time (i.e. say in the same field) they would have taken off and remained in their group and started dropping around the same time. A few survived.
Mmmm... I doubt they were shot.
