Is anyone else seeing a massive amount of dead birds?

Pauliedragon

Maybe this should be in the cork forum but in the last week I've noticed about 10 to 15 dead blackbirds all over my town over the last week or so. They are everywhere. I counted 6 more today. Weird stuff. Is there a new virus coming.

murphyebass

Pauliedragon wrote: »

Maybe this should be in the cork forum but in the last week I've noticed about 10 to 15 dead blackbirds all over my town over the last week or so. They are everywhere. I counted 6 more today. Weird stuff. Is there a new virus coming.

Nope. Just you. Freak!!

biko

Have you been to China lately?

Foweva Awone

Saw two dead swans in the canal beside me recently. Never saw any before now.

Saw the remains of a dead bird on my doorstep yesterday. Bloody cat!

xzanti

Not dead, but a lot of magpies around my house lately.

That's a lot of saluting.

waiting for the 5g theorists.....

branie2

No

Mr_Muffin

Blackbirds go into hibernation this time of year so maybe that's what you are seeing. Once the good hibernation spots are taken the rest just hibernate wherever they can.

I'm also seeing more flies on my car's windscreen. It's a bit premature to be drawing these conclusions, but it's quite possible we're seeing the effects of a big burst of nature, unhindered by a movement of people earlier in the Spring.

There are house-martins nesting in the barn here, where they haven't been seen for years. Honey-bees, come build in the empty house of the stare.

Your Face

Not since I cleaned out the shed.

Are the birds all drowned?

EmmetSpiceland

Before I got a dog I used to wonder why I didn’t see more dead birds.

Pauliedragon

Deleted User wrote: »

Are the birds all drowned?

Nope they're in ditches mostly and nowhere near the river. It's like something from a Stephen King novel. Maybe it's normal and I'm just paying more attention to what's going on around the place these days.

murpho999

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

Blackbirds go into hibernation this time of year so maybe that's what you are seeing. Once the good hibernation spots are taken the rest just hibernate wherever they can.

What?

Birds generally don't hibernate, they migrate.
Blackbirds definitely don't hibernate.

Also, if birds hibernated they wouldn't do it in July.

enricoh

Hape of blackbirds around here fighting all the time. Good few of them dead about the place, must be the fighting ,or else the chemtrails!

barneystinson

Choose your hashtag carefully OP

Bird Lives Matter

Or

Avian Lives Matter

corner of hells

Pauliedragon wrote: »

Maybe this should be in the cork forum but in the last week I've noticed about 10 to 15 dead blackbirds all over my town over the last week or so. They are everywhere. I counted 6 more today. Weird stuff. Is there a new virus coming.

Be careful OP be very careful, a bloke I know was nearly killed by a chicken .
He was badly injured when a pallet of frozen chickens fell on him.Nobody was sure which chicken did the damage but you get my drift.

ILoveYourVibes

Just to be clear he means women right?

Sam Hain

Then I have a half dead bird in my boot.

Greyfox

Pauliedragon wrote: »

Maybe this should be in the cork forum but in the last week I've noticed about 10 to 15 dead blackbirds all over my town over the last week or so.

Looks like lockdown boredom is getting to your neighbours

An Ri rua

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

Blackbirds go into hibernation this time of year so maybe that's what you are seeing. Once the good hibernation spots are taken the rest just hibernate wherever they can.

Source? Where did you pull that from? No they don't.

Op, lots of dead birds around Mountmellick and Tullamore.
I would put it down to the earlier drought, with resulting shortage of drinking water, hard ground and delayed growth leading to delayed wave of feeding insects.
Many shrubs around here failed to flower on top, if at all. So, much reduced insect activity. Much delayed at least.

An Ri rua

corner of hells wrote: »

Be careful OP be very careful, a bloke I know was nearly killed by a chicken .
He was badly injured when a pallet of frozen chickens fell on him.Nobody was sure which chicken did the damage but you get my drift.

Was the pallet up on a cabinet? Because if it was no individual chicken is to blame, it's cabinet responsibility, even if yer man did pullet.

Ps not inferring he was pulling a chicken. Never wise at work. Moreso a cabinet.

Fann Linn

barneystinson wrote: »

Choose your hashtag carefully OP

Bird Lives Matter

Or

Avian Lives Matter

Bird flu matters.

Kylta

murpho999 wrote: »

What?

Birds generally don't hibernate, they migrate.
Blackbirds definitely don't hibernate.

Also, if birds hibernated they wouldn't do it in July.

Maybe the blackbirds are bears or squirrels in disguise

ILoveYourVibes

I killed a woman ..there are you HAPPY!??

whisky_galore

Blonde and a brunette out walking.

Brunette "oh look, a dead bird"

Blonde *looking up* "Where?"

Kylta

There are a lot of dead birds around dublin. I seen a crane like bird dead, but mostly pigeons and a fair few seagulls. I think with the lockdown and no rubbish laying about has left a lots of birds half starved.

A few years ago up around glasnevin a load of migratory birds died from eating a certain berry on the trees, maybe thats whats happening to the blackbirds or maybe someone is poisoning them

An Ri rua

I see dead black birds everywhere... Walking around like regular black birds... All over town?!

ILoveYourVibes

Remember that british guy who had a bird in his pocket and threw it at people ?


https://www.joe.ie/news/man-shouts-abuse-throws-dead-pigeons-head-protesters-dublin-641621https://www.joe.ie/news/man-shouts-abuse-throws-dead-pigeons-head-protesters-dublin-641621

Pauliedragon

Christ sake guys this is serious stuff now. Thers's a waft of death around here now. Out of boredom I did some earching and found out some interesting stuff. Apparantly crows, Elephants and magpies also hold funerals. I wonder if they all go across to the local and hoof 20 pints in to them in the name of Dumbo.

Seth Brundle

Pauliedragon wrote: »

Maybe this should be in the cork forum but in the last week I've noticed about 10 to 15 dead blackbirds all over my town over the last week or so. They are everywhere. I counted 6 more today. Weird stuff. Is there a new virus coming.

Not a virus but time travel...
https://www.netflix.com/title/80100172?s=a&trkid=13747225&t=cp

Badly Drunk Boy

I don't remember noticing any dead birds except a beautiful one that was squashed into the middle of a crossroads that I noticed on the way home from work. It was black and yellow so I assumed it was a goldfinch but it could also have been a siskin, although I'm no expert.

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

Blackbirds go into hibernation this time of year so maybe that's what you are seeing. Once the good hibernation spots are taken the rest just hibernate wherever they can.

That would be aestivation, not hibernation, because it's summer. And blackbirds don't do that.

bogwalrus

Saw two dead black birds on the side of quiet country road here in Cork. They looked young enough. I was thinking maybe a bird of prey killed them but their bodies did not look damaged. I got up very close to check.

Only other thing I could think of was maybe poison of some sort be it from a type of Berry or farm land related.