Just like last New Years

[Ron Caliburn]

n something out of a horror movie, 100 dead birds fell from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas, on Dec. 31 New Year's Eve, mere hours before the clock struck 2012.

Officials in central Arkansas cited fireworks as the culprit. Supposedly the birds were spooked by fireworks set off by New Year's Eve revelers. The birds began falling out of the sky at around 7 pm. Calls to police flooded in and local television networks reported that birds were raining down.

In something out a horror movie, about 100 dead birds fell from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas, on Dec. 31 New Year’s Eve.

Beebe police Lt. Brian Duke said Sunday that officials ordered local residents to stop setting off fireworks after blackbirds started flying into objects and each other, crashing to the ground dead. The state Game and Fish Commission claimed someone targeted a blackbird roost and said there was evidence of fireworks at the roost. "We know that there was evidence of fireworks set off in the middle of the roost, and it wasn't a coincidence."

The birds landed on roofs, sidewalks, streets and fields. One hit a woman who was out walking her dog. Another smashed into a police cruiser.

However, some found the entire incident decidedly eerie. Just last year, on New Year's Eve 2010, over 5,000 blackbirds plummeted from the sky in another small town in Arkansas, near Little Rock. This mysterious incident caused a media frenzy rife with doomsday prophesies and even a National Geographic documentary.

The Mother Nature Network notes that mass bird deaths bookend 2011. The year started with the aforementioned bird disaster and ended with another, albeit much smaller. Dec. 2011 marked other bird deaths outside of Arkansas. On Dec. 15, an estimated 1,500 eared grebes fell to their death in Utah.

Jacob Landrum told Arkansas' KTHV television he was driving through the middle of town, heading towards the Church of Christ, when dead birds started falling from the sky. "The birds were all over the parking lot and in the road on the way here," he said. "It's kind of a strange thing two years in a row."

Paul Begley, a pastor at the Community Gospel Bapist Church in Indiana, had another theory.

"I was doing a live broadcast talking about bible prophecy and the end of the world," he said. "And the birds started falling out of the sky again. Where's (horror blockbuster writer) Stephen King? He can't even write a script like this, this is God. It's not fireworks. If that was the case, on the Fourth of July every bird would fall out of the sky."

Other Arkansas residents claimed strange things happened that night.

Kevin McKinney, a Beebe resident, said, "Fireworks going off all night and all day - no problems!" he told KTHV. "But when the birds started dying, I had my compass out: it went crazy, spinning and unable to find north."

Some had views not as sinister. Police Chief Wayne Ballew said: "I guess we could have an annual blackbird watch. People can just bring their umbrellas and open them up and walk through the neighborhood and hope they don't get hit."

But wait, we have even more mass die offs in the news

Thousands of herring have floated ashore on Norway's western coast, leaving experts perplexed about the phenomenon, according to the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research.

Local media reported that some 20 tonnes of fish were found at the end of December on a beach in northern Norway.

"We have seen herring stranded before but never this much," biologist Ole Kristian Berg at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim told AFP.

Berg said the herring may have been chased up on land by other fish or other ocean mammals.

They may also have fallen victim to the tides or high levels of freshwater in the area, where a river flows into the ocean, he said.

According to the Nordreisa municipality, many of the fish have now been swept out to sea by the tides.

[Rowan]

What’s the probability of magic as the catalyst? After my encounter at a secret grave site over the Christmas holiday, however, nearly nothing would surprise me.

[Tms3]

magic is a possible. also one thing I have noticed is there seems to be more ambient P.P.E.. since magic and P.P.E. seem to be the fuel of life as it where. because if you ever have the misfortion to visit some place that was drained of P.P.E. it is all but a dead waist land. The thing we don't know is what effect more P.P.E. would have in the environment or on life there. we know that to little and life there sickens and dies. but not to much. we do have some text and myths that suggest that there is a tie between more P.P.E. and supernatural events. Rifts and portals and so forth... I have noticed both the incress in P.P.E. and supernatural events (not sure what the connection there is).

also something that seems to be connected though again not sure how, is that the fey,under hill, the half realm and the spirit realm all seem unsettled some how. I do know both Sidhee courts are vary tense. I think we could be looking at the possibility of war under hill. and since or world and under hill are vary much inter connected. and in many ways a reflection of each other. a major war under hill would be reflected here. the last time something like this happened was ww2. and I am not sure where it was that the war started...

any one else noticing any thing odd? and yes I have seen the random em fields I.e. the spinning comips needle. as well as time desplasments, and other deminteanl events. any one else?

Rowan about your question. about weather Magic could be the Catalyst... well I cant think of any reason why a mage would want to kill birds.... as for the residue of dark magic that is always possible or like I said more P.P.E. in the enverment, could be we just dont know about it

[Gotham Witch]

Perhaps see if there is something unusual eating that many birds, perhaps?