Althouse: More birds crashing into flying saucers...

January 6, 2011

More birds crashing into flying saucers...

... and tumbling to the ground.

13 comments:

Scott M said...: Are the Swedes into fireworks then?; 1/6/11, 10:15 AM
kjbe said...: Notice that it's mostly blackbirds? The smartest of them all, too. Maybe they know something...; 1/6/11, 10:18 AM
TWM said...: Didn't that movie 2012 start off with stuff like this?; 1/6/11, 10:27 AM
Amexpat said...: Are the Swedes into fireworks then?

Saw a local new report here and the expert said it could have been a truck. The type of bird that was killed in Sweden normally fly in flocks close to the ground and the "kill pattern" was very tight. The flock in Arkansas were a different type of bird that were flying higher, that's why their kill pattern was more widespread.

Apparently it is not that unusual for flocks of birds to perish like this, but it often happens in isolated areas and predators get to the birds before they are noticed.; 1/6/11, 10:44 AM
CatherineM said...: Remember when the sharks were all going crazy and attacking us at every turn in 2001? Well that's what it seemed like as "the news" reported every swipe, bite and run in with a shark.

As soon as I heard about the bird crash, I thought, oh, here we go. No there will be 10 stories a day about birds crashing in other cities/states followed by the conspiracies (HARP, the Happening type suicides?).; 1/6/11, 10:46 AM
Toad Trend said...: Reports about the crop circles, the mutilations, the abductions, can't be far behind.; 1/6/11, 10:50 AM
Phil 314 said...: They're HEEEEERRRE!!!; 1/6/11, 10:59 AM
Mumpsimus said...: Meanwhile, in the American heartland, sober Midwesterners are seeing mourning doves the size of chickens.; 1/6/11, 11:07 AM
sonicfrog said...: It's one thing to kill cows... Hell, who cares about cows... but crows???

Birderers!!!!!

PS. Yes, I know they are actually red winged blackbird.; 1/6/11, 11:21 AM
Jason said...: STILGAR! DO WE HAVE WORMSIGN!?!?!?; 1/6/11, 1:53 PM
Scott M said...: Usal...we have wormsign the likes of which GOD has never seen.

(I'm not really all that happy I know that off the top of my head. Begin heaping scorn...); 1/6/11, 2:03 PM
James Wigderson said...: I think it's Ming the Merciless. He missed Flash Gordon's plane and knocked out the little birdies instead.; 1/6/11, 7:03 PM
traditionalguy said...: Could some force be overpowering these small dinosoars like what ever overpowered the larger dinosoars once upon a time?; 1/6/11, 9:10 PM