100 dead birds fall on British home
March 11th, 2010 - 1:51 pm ICT by IANSLondon, March 11 (IANS) It looked like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s horror classic “The Birds” when over a hundred dead birds fell in the garden of a British home, a media report said Thursday.
A terrified Julie Knight Sunday found more than 100 dead starlings in her front garden in Somerset, the Daily Express reported Thursday.
The birds had blood coming from their beaks and their feet were curled up.
“One of my neighbours saw them. They literally seemed to just fall out of the sky. It was like something out of Hitchcock’s `The Birds’ - it was absolutely terrifying. The sky was raining starlings. They seemed to have had a fright and were petrified.
“There must have been more than 100 birds. I’ve been a country girl all my life and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Knight was quoted as saying.
Experts collected the birds while six starlings that were alive were taken away for tests.
Julie observed: “They simply fell out of the sky. I’m worried about what could have killed them. My only thoughts are that the birds, who are greedy in nature, had been eating crops sprayed with weedkiller and were poisoned - but it’s all very weird.”
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