Happy 2011 everyone. New faces in government, a new year and
only three or four days in a worldwide mystery is occurring.
Thousands of animals have died in the first few days of 2011 all
over the planet. In scenes reminiscent from last season's ABC
episode, "Flash Forward" anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000 blackbirds
and starlings fell from the sky dead or dying over Beebe,
Arkansas a half hour before midnight on New Year's Eve. Initial
reports said there were only 1,000 dead blackbirds but as New
Year's Day dawned those numbers escalated into the thousands.
One event would be unusual, but then within a few days, five
hundred more birds fell from the sky over Louisiana. If that
were the only event one might blame some local cause considering
the states are relatively close to each other and the birds were
blackbirds, grackles and starlings in both incidents.
Unfortunately, this was only the first mass animal death to
occur around the globe and it has been followed by several more
instances of dead birds and fish