Birds gotta swim, fish gotta fly: something's wrong

Consequences

by digby

Ok, this is officially freaking me out:

Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, residents found 50 to 100 jackdaws on a street in Falköping southeast of Skövde. The incident echoed a number of unexplained incidents earlier this week across the southern US.

County veterinarian Robert ter Horst believes that the birds may have been literally scared to death by fireworks set off on Tuesday night.

There have now been similar reports from all over the world.Booman Tribune, via Alternet:

Fireworks have been blamed. Power lines have been blamed. Lightning and hail have been blamed. Stupid bird tricks have been blamed. Unexplained internal bleeding has been blamed. Bird flu or other diseases have been blamed. The Antichrist has been blamed. Nostradamus has been blamed. All we know is that the people picking these dead birds up wear toxic protection suits that look like this one:

Keep reading to find out about the tons of dead fish that are washing up on shores around the world too. Obviously, I have no idea what's going on there. But you do have to wonder if the ecosystem hasn't been just a tiny bit affected by the millions of gallons of oil and chemicals (to this day) that gushed into the Gulf Of Mexico which we are supposed to believe just "disappeared" like magic. Or it's Armageddon. One or the other.

Update: I'm reliably told that this is a common occurrence but nobody usually puts it together. Who knew?

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