[TN-Bird] [Fwd: Bird Crashes]
- From: Raincrow <raincrow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: TNbird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:56:34 -0500
I have one theory: I work in Oak Ridge, where the major traffic lights
are suspended on arching, tapering, hollow, metal posts. These light
posts are pre-drilled with holes to accommodate various configurations
of traffic lights. In Oak Ridge, many of these holes are not occupied by
traffic lights so the ever-resourceful starlings have taken them over
and seem to breed successfully almost through the entire winter, to my
dismay. I wonder if they are not sometimes electricuted at insulation
breaches in the wiring that runs thru the posts, and, elsewhere, just by
stepping on the wrong spot when they land on a powerline? (YAY!!!)
Death To Starlings!!!
Liz Singley
Kingston TN
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [TN-Bird] Bird Crashes
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:12:45 EST
From: Thornius2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reply-To: Thornius2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Several years ago my wife and I were parked at a red light when an
immature
starling fell like a stone in front of our car and slammed into the
pavement,
dead as a doorknob. My wife remarked that the same thing had happened
to her
at another intersection a few weeks before. I wonder if anyone else has
seen
or heard of this phenomena and if so if they might know what caused it.
Best Wishes,
thornius2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Nat Winston III
Hermitage, TN
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