The road between Upavon and Everleigh, just by Trenchard lines, was covered in dead rooks today. I don't mean 1 or 2 either, there must've been around 40. Anyone have any idea what might cause that?
Freaked me out a bit. :o
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The road between Upavon and Everleigh, just by Trenchard lines, was covered in dead rooks today. I don't mean 1 or 2 either, there must've been around 40. Anyone have any idea what might cause that?
Freaked me out a bit. :o
He's coming :o
looks like we need to head west...
I will go anywhere if the birds start falling at my feet ;D ;D
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Originally Posted by cobs
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Originally Posted by cobs
Switch your deodorant?
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Originally Posted by dan_geoghegan
Something in their water/food probably. If they were all dead in the same place, could be they all ate from the same food source together. The poison would take about the same time to affect them all so they would just fall out of the sky together.
However Stacy's theory is much cooler! ;D
Overhead powerlines..?
A lot of military activity in that area... shelling, helicopters, testing of new secret weapons... take your pick...
Went through Upavon the other day, and I had had a curry the night before... ::)
Maybe they got struck by lightning??? :o
That Thor has some wicked aim...Quote:
Originally Posted by Nellybambam
Heard of this before in other parts of the world.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ansas-science/
So it could've been the thunder? Gold star for Nelly! :D
I thought lightning can only affect you if you are earthed? Isn't that why birds can sit on power lines without being electrocuted?
It's not the lightning. Read the article... The loud noise causes them to fall then it's the impact with whatever they hit that kills them. Or that's how it read to me :D
See? I', not as stoopid as i look! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Taylor86
He's here :o
Well bugger me! Have read the article now... That's definately weird.
If it really is thunder, or loud noise, why don't we see scores of dead birds after storms and bonfire night?
I'm still with Stacy. He's definately en route if he's not already here..... [smiley=evil.gif]
Time to start behaving like an [smiley=engel017.gif] again! ;D
This is a pure guess, but possibly the proximity to the source of the noise? Also, most birds have migrated by the time bonfire night comes around... :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Squashed_Fly
It's the Lynx effect..... I seen them TV ads...
...falling from the sky they were!
Sounds like an interesting meal suggestion (pie). Who needs 4 & 20 blackbirds.
We surprised a pigeon when we came back from Weymouth. The bugger flew into my leg.
Mystery solved!
It turns out a bloke on a silver zx6r didn't agree with their beliefs and decided to drop a bomb on them and start again from scratch. ;D
HAHAHAHAHA! ;D ;D ;D
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Originally Posted by dan_geoghegan
So, how long am I going to hear these jokes for? I guess proportionaly to how to stupid the comment was?
So quite a while yet then.....
I saw these as well, I work in the BAM hanger opposit trenchard lines. One was wondering around in the middle of the road dazed, not bothered by cars and refused to move, Guessing it was being run over that caused them all to die, but who knows what caused them to become so dopy in the first place, maybe some sort poison. I agree it was a pretty weird site, must have been at least 30 within a mile
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...Quote:
Originally Posted by BMWGraeme
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...
Please join the dots for me... Rabbits with Myxomatosis hopping around on the ground...Quote:
Originally Posted by @bj
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
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Originally Posted by Squashed_Fly
So, how long am I going to hear these jokes for? I guess proportionaly to how to stupid the comment was?
So quite a while yet then.....[/quote]
;D ;D ;D ;D
Please join the dots for me... Rabbits with Myxomatosis hopping around on the ground...Quote:
Originally Posted by BMWGraeme
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...
Please join the dots for me... Rabbits with Myxomatosis hopping around on the ground...Quote:
Originally Posted by @bj
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
Maybe it was the Judean People's Front Crow Suicide Squad?Quote:
Originally Posted by BMWGraeme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_12E1EN6fs
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?
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
I seriously doubt it. You start waving a shotgun around outside an Army camp you'll be spending your next holiday in Guantanamo bay!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rossio
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?
;)
... 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.... ::)Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_geoghegan
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) ;)
"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...?
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Originally Posted by BMWGraeme
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...