100's of dead Starlings

[Mr gen]

just read this on the BBC Wales site. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-50741457 seems very strange my thoughts are maybe a plane strike or lightning. 

[dipper]

I would bet on poison.

[oowee]

I heard this has happened before. All the birds together undamaged. Only on the road and not in the fields.

[snow white]

Climate change it gets blamed for everything else 

[stumfelter]

1 minute ago, snow white said:

Climate change it gets blamed for everything else 

Or Brexit....

[strimmer_13]

Saw it in the mail last night. 

Guessing poison by a farmer as a last measure to keep his cattle feed free from bird **** 

[old'un]

Car strike….have you seen the way some farmers drive around the country lanes.

[Stonepark]

🌩

Strike earths to road, too fast for birds to react to.

[southeastpete]

I would guess some sort of electric shock. They all gather on lines. Maybe something went wrong with the lines and they all got electrocuted?

[figgy]

As above, for all to drop in same place it would have to be sudden.

Poisoning I'd expect them to be scattered allover the area.

[Dougy]

The police have an explanation, 

 

but cant let on what it is until they get all the suggestion box's opened.

[figgy]

Ha ha 

[Bigbob]

Bird flu 

[Retsdon]

1) There are no overhead wires along that road. 2) They were found only on the road and verges along a short stretch. 3) Starlings don't gather en masse no tarmaced road surfaces.

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Sherlock Holmes

So they must have been killed elsewhere and somebody dropped them from a moving vehicle to dispose of the bodies.

[Mr gen]

I have discounted poison as they would have all, had to digest the same amount at the same time to fall as they did. power lines, again seems impossible as they are only small birds so only perch on one phase at a time so no amount of fault current would affect them. I cant wait to hear what the BBC post mortem reveals.

 

[Benthejockey]

Ah now I knew all my years of watching the history/discovery channel would come in handy. There was a similar case where hundreds of dead starlings were found scattered over a small area, dead as a door nail. They concluded that a perfect storm of weather conditions, predators and a massive conflagration of starlings. I can't remember exactly the weather conditions but they pretty much crashed into each other and knocked each other out of the sky to fall to their death. 

[Mr gen]

Well we have certainly has a lot of weather this week

[GingerCat]

12 hours ago, Retsdon said:

 

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Sherlock Holmes

 

Wasn't it spock?

Edited December 13, 2019 by GingerCat

[KFC]

and they died without a murmur🙄

[figgy]

Like it

[Benthejockey]

Murmeration that's the word Mt sleep deprived addled brain was searching for.

[Retsdon]

On 13/12/2019 at 11:52, GingerCat said:

Wasn't it spock?

Him too.

[Mice!]

On 13/12/2019 at 00:01, Mr gen said:

I have discounted poison as they would have all, had to digest the same amount at the same time to fall as they did. power lines, again seems impossible as they are only small birds so only perch on one phase at a time so no amount of fault current would affect them. I cant wait to hear what the BBC post mortem reveals.

 

I once saw a pheasant or crow drop off a power line as I was driving along the motorway,  very very  unlikely it was shot, just fell like a stone.

Can't believe no ones said punt gun, does look odd though.

[pork chop]

Aliens 

[Fisheruk]

Same thing happened with Crows last year. Police put it down to white van drivers. All birds had traces of white paint on their beaks and broken necks.

After extensive investigations they concluded that it was due to the fact that the lookout crow could only shout out the warning Car Car and not Van Van.  🙄