ok, Im a newbie here so please be gentle. I was 10 years old, must have been the mid 1970's. Me and me dad was walking the dog through a local housing estate. I noticed the local birds, sparrows and starlings, just sort of hopping around on the pavement and walls. Thing was they didnt scatter when you approached them as they usually would. Then it dawned on us that the birds couldnt fly. I bent down and picked one up. Our dog just bemusedly sniffed at them. This flightlessness seemed have effected the whole bird population of the estate, as we passed through we just kept encountering more and more of these poor hopping birds. My dad's explanation was that they must have been poisoned, I think really he was grasping at straws for an explanation, what sort of poison does that to so many birds? Thinking back theres another thing that was odd, there didnt seem to be any other people to witness all this in that the streets were deserted. I dont remember any traffic either.
As strange stuff goes this perhaps doesnt rank that high but I still wonder what the heck was that all about
As strange stuff goes this perhaps doesnt rank that high but I still wonder what the heck was that all about
