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mark smyth

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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #30 on: January 07, 2011, 10:17:25 PM »
Is this a good reason to ban NYE fireworks? Every year when I watch the round up from east to west birds can be seen flying
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12135380

In Belfast there used to be a winter roost of about 30,000 starlings under a bridge. 1999/2000 New Years Eve there was a huge firework display off a barge beside the bridge. The starlings panicked and left the roost. They were flying everywhere, hitting building and people. Those that survived abandoned the roost and moved to a bridge about a mile away.
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #31 on: January 07, 2011, 11:34:10 PM »
I'm not sure what is wackier, the weird story, or the cockamamie explanations accounting for why thousands of birds in Arkansas dropped dead simultaneously, littering a highway.  So, I'm waiting to hear even more inventive explanations as to why the bizarre occurence repeats itself three days after in neighboring Louisiana where "nearly 5,000 birds fell from the sky, dying in mid-air". It's all rather weird.

http://www.internetbits.com/blackbird-rain-death-from-stress-and-trauma/56495/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/06/birds-dying-in-italy-thou_n_805541.html?ir=World
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #32 on: January 08, 2011, 07:27:45 AM »
Mark,

You can have some of our starlings.... they're considered a pest in Australia, particularly in the crop areas.  Flocks of thousands of them do a lot of damage.

McMark,

I can't access that first link unfortunately.  The second link you gave linked to quite a few of the other reports as well.  The US cases are quite scary, and even stranger in that the events were relatively close to each other?  Has there been any real reason put forward as to why?  As you say, there are a lot of possibilities, but most sound a bit far fetched?
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #33 on: January 08, 2011, 01:22:15 PM »
Do you think mail order bird food companies have wildlife as a priority. No way!

I used to buy kibbled sunflower hearts mail order from CJ Wild Foods. I now buy a bag of hearts and do my own.

They sell them for a £9.50 for 2.5kg plus £2.50 and that equals £120 for 22kg. I bough a full bag a of sunflower hearts yesterday for ...... and I hope my math is OK ..... £24
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #34 on: January 08, 2011, 01:51:51 PM »
Quote from: Paul T on January 08, 2011, 07:27:45 AM

McMark,
The second link you gave linked to quite a few of the other reports as well.  The US cases are quite scary, and even stranger in that the events were relatively close to each other?  Has there been any real reason put forward as to why?  As you say, there are a lot of possibilities, but most sound a bit far fetched?

Exactly, the reasons cited thus far are so far fetched, not one plausible theory as to why thousands of birds suddenly die in the air at the same time and fall to the ground littering a highway.  I don't know the answer, but I'm still waiting for any plausible theories.
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #35 on: January 08, 2011, 08:44:21 PM »
Ah, but the conspiracy theorists would say that it is clear evidence that (insert suitable country name here) is testing their new super weapons. ;)
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #36 on: January 09, 2011, 03:56:42 PM »
Continuing...
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #37 on: January 09, 2011, 04:02:00 PM »
Today I visited Moscow Botanic Garden. Lots of birds and some squirrels.





Jay likes bread most of all.


My friend showed me pinus-sibirica-bird (kedrovka). It prefer peanuts!
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #38 on: January 09, 2011, 04:07:57 PM »
Great photos! Your pinus bird is a Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes)
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #39 on: January 09, 2011, 04:10:16 PM »
Yes thanks Mark. I was too lazy ti find it's latin name.  :)
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #40 on: January 09, 2011, 07:17:22 PM »
Love the squirrel photos!
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #41 on: January 10, 2011, 10:04:01 AM »
Interesting that your red squirrels are grey Olga.
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #42 on: January 10, 2011, 10:34:06 AM »
I love those little squirrels
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #43 on: January 10, 2011, 05:54:03 PM »
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Re: Wildlife January 2011
« Reply #44 on: January 10, 2011, 06:14:32 PM »
anyway, it is a carnival season  ;D
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