RICHMOND, Calif. (KGO) -- A disturbing mystery is unfolding on Bernhard Avenue in Richmond, where residents say birds are being killed at an alarming rate after landing on a stretch of power lines.
"It's very traumatic," said local resident Maximilian Bolling. "They just quickly explode, and it's really violent."
I reckon they are Starlings. They prefer high density living. And dying. Residents will sing a different tune when the Starlings take roost in their homes.
ReplyDeleteYou can bet some clever entrepreneur is on the way to set up a food truck at the exploding bird site selling tacos, hot dogs and beer.
ReplyDeleteand “chicken” sandwiches….. 😈
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I think it's nice how the news story blurred out the dead birds out of respect for their families.
ReplyDeleteCity folks: "It must be a fault power wire with no path to ground!" Maybe, that "pop" in the video is a Pre-compressed Air Rifle killing nuisance birds. My bet is a neighbor got fed up with poop in his BMW so he bought an FX Impact or an Edgun Matador in .22 cal. See "Ted's Holdover" on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteEven a Gamo or Beeman .177 cal break-barrel pellet gun would take out those birds, and they have a very loud “crack” when fired since the pellet is slightly supersonic.
DeleteI have a Gamo break barrel pellet gun and it sounds like a 22 rifle when I pull the trigger
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Seems like there would be evidence if the birds had been shot
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They're flying too close together and that competes the circuit to the other power lines...
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First place I lived in where I am now was the top floor of a small office building, opposite the local bank. The roof of the bank was the roost for dozens of pigeons and they crapped the daylights out of everything nearby. The local merchants were in the habit of gathering in the back of my building and wing shooting them with pellet rifles. I’d borrow one of those pellet rifles of an evening, set up in my apartment and plink pigeons off the roof of the bank. By the 3rd night there were 8 or12 stray cats waiting on the sidewalk below…
ReplyDeleteThe Gamo bronze pellets are light enough to be supersonic and crack like a.22. The lead pellets with the polymer pointed tips are just subsonic and most Gamo pellet rifles have a pretty effective suppressor standard.
Neighbor Sharon Anderson went on to say, "That particular wire does sizzle and arc at times." Is PG&E setting up another neighborhood for demolition?
ReplyDeleteA broken insulator on a pole causes arcing- It induces voltage on everything around it, that also causes interference in cable tv feeder and trunk lines so if your internet is losing packets or freezing it may not entirely the Cable companies fault.
ReplyDeleteLet's blame them anyway.
Turn on an AM Radio under a broken insulator and you can hear it sizzle just as you can hear lightning from thunderstorms. A 1330vac is loud even with good insulation.
I've noticed similar things occurring near some of my bird feeders. A loud pop, then a starling just falls over. Strangely, it never occurs to the native birds, just starlings and squirrels........
ReplyDeleteFigure out what it is, patent it, then sit back and collect billions.
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