Re: Birds are falling at my feet
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Originally Posted by BMWGraeme
[quote author=@bj link=1304707944/27#27 date=1304979519][quote author=BMWGraeme link=1304707944/26#26 date=1304975065]Could be down to poisoning from infected rabbits with Myxomatosis - its the right time of year for this to be prevalent.
Please join the dots for me... Rabbits with Myxomatosis hopping around on the ground...
40 Crows drop out of the sky simultaniously...
Need more explaination of how that actually works... please...
I'll write it up - and when I get the nobel prize for something totally stage left - I'll be sure to give you a credit...[/quote]
Poisened dead rabbits, eaten by crows = dead crows [/quote]
Hmmmm - still one or two dots left unjoined I feel...
Myxomatosis is not a poison - it's a virus.
Typically causes slow death in rabbits lasting @ 2 weeks - not known to affect crows.
Your hypothesis is that myxomatosis has now suddenly mutated into a super virus that that has now jumped species - and can now kill a whole bunch of crows in mid flight in the same instant..?
Maybe time to head for the hills before it jumps species again...
Re: Birds are falling at my feet
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Originally Posted by @bj
[quote author=BMWGraeme link=1304707944/28#28 date=1305009590][quote author=@bj link=1304707944/27#27 date=1304979519][quote author=BMWGraeme link=1304707944/26#26 date=1304975065]Could be down to poisoning from infected rabbits with Myxomatosis - its the right time of year for this to be prevalent.
Please join the dots for me... Rabbits with Myxomatosis hopping around on the ground...
40 Crows drop out of the sky simultaniously...
Need more explaination of how that actually works... please...
I'll write it up - and when I get the nobel prize for something totally stage left - I'll be sure to give you a credit...[/quote]
Poisened dead rabbits, eaten by crows = dead crows [/quote]
Hmmmm - still one or two dots left unjoined I feel...
Myxomatosis is not a poison - it's a virus.
Typically causes slow death in rabbits lasting @ 2 weeks - not known to affect crows.
Your hypothesis is that myxomatosis has now suddenly mutated into a super virus that that has now jumped species - and can now kill a whole bunch of crows in mid flight in the same instant..?
Maybe time to head for the hills before it jumps species again...
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To be honest, the thought only struck me for a millisecond and had not lost any brain cells in thinking it through. But, on a technicality, who mentioned these birds fell out of the sky all at the same time? We are considering a large quantity of crows found dead on the ground, there was no suggestion in the original posts that they fell out of the sky all together in a suicide pact;D
Re: Birds are falling at my feet
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Originally Posted by BMWGraeme
To be honest, the thought only struck me for a millisecond and had not lost any brain cells in thinking it through. But, on a technicality, who mentioned these birds fell out of the sky all at the same time? We are considering a large quantity of crows found dead on the ground, there was no suggestion in the original posts that they fell out of the sky all together in a suicide pact;D
Maybe it was the Judean People's Front Crow Suicide Squad?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_12E1EN6fs
Re: Birds are falling at my feet
Is it not possible mr farmer just shot them?? If your on a good flight line they'll just go right over you resulting in a load of crows or pidgeons in the same place or within short proximity, was it a maize or corn field they were by by any chance?
Re: Birds are falling at my feet
ROOKS! They're rooks not crows. I never mentioned crows at all. Rooks live in colonies and crows fly either solo or in pairs. What's wrong with you people. ;D
Re: Birds are falling at my feet
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Originally Posted by Rossio
Is it not possible mr farmer just shot them?? If your on a good flight line they'll just go right over you resulting in a load of crows or pidgeons in the same place or within short proximity, was it a maize or corn field they were by by any chance?
I seriously doubt it. You start waving a shotgun around outside an Army camp you'll be spending your next holiday in Guantanamo bay!
Re: Birds are falling at my feet
LOLOLOL Maybe they werent even dead! Did anybody stop and check for a pulse?
Maybe it was a ploy to fool the worms into thinking it was safe to come out?
Maybe it was just someone driving along the road throwing dead birds out of his/her car randomly to start a conspiracy theory?
;)
Re: Birds are falling at my feet
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Originally Posted by dan_geoghegan
I seriously doubt it. You start waving a shotgun around outside an Army camp you'll be spending your next holiday in Guantanamo bay!
... oh I don't know, if a bunch of asian lads can drive up from SE London and stand outside Sellafield with cameras and just claim that Satnav got them lost and get away with it.... ::)
On the ornithological side, Rooks are insectivores, not carrion eaters so poisoned rabbits wouldn't affect them - there'd be dead Carrion Crows, Buzzards and Red Kites (and foxes, dogs and cats) around if some f*ckwit farmer had been poisoning carcases on a large scale >:(
A colony of Rooks is known as a Rookery (engage smug mode) ;)
Re: Birds are falling at my feet
"A colony of Rooks is known as a Rookery (engage smug mode)"
On the strength of the above statement...
Is a colony of cooks known as a cookery...?
Re: Birds are falling at my feet
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Originally Posted by BMWGraeme
...on a technicality, who mentioned these birds fell out of the sky all at the same time?
True.
So a bunch of crows kept circling the same piece of sky for a whole day - whilst one by one they dropped to the floor...
Of course - much more likely...