Massive Fish and Bird Deaths Worldwide Surrounding New Years

If you’ve been watching the news recently you’ve probably heard about at leaset one of the bizarre cases of massive deaths of both birds and fish. The first story came in right after the new year in Arkansas where thousands of red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky over a mile of land in a small town. Then only a hundred miles we learned of another massive death of fish, but again only a single species- drum. Neighboring Louisiana saw some 450 bird die littering an entire half-kilometer of highway.

Further to the south in Brazil some 15 tons of dead sardine, croaker and catfish have washed up along the coast. Across the pond 40,000 crabs died and washed ashore, though dead starfish, lobsters, sponges and anemones were also found, scientists claim that a severe drop in temperature could have been the cause. Even in Sweden 50 to 100 jackdaws (birds) were found dead.

There’s no doubt that these massive deaths around the world are mysterious, and some may never be truly explained, but after searching around I found an article that predicted massive bird deaths around the great lakes due to a widespread increase in botulism (google webcache link). We’ve certainly seen this happen close to home in the last few years where several carp species where infected with a form of herpes and begun washing up on shore of Lake Scugog.

Many sources are now reporting that they believe the bird deaths were caused by fireworks scaring large groups of birds from their nests late at night, those birds with the least adaptive night vision were the birds that died, crashing into buildings, cars, even the ground.

We’ve Officially Finished Moving!

By now I hope everyone is seeing our website in it’s new home in downtown Toronto. So far the site has been super fast for me, after I fixed a few migration bugs of course, and I hope that nobody will experience the annoying page not found errors. I really hope that this has not hurt our page ranking with google, but we won’t know for a few weeks I’d guess.

In more exciting and fishing related news I went fishing at Lake Scugog with Ed on Sunday. This time we geared ourselves up for Bass hoping to land some big ones in the thick Scugog weeds. We were amazed that there was nobody on the lake considering it’s a holiday weekend, we had high hopes. Unfortunately the weather decided to throw all kinds of things at us, everything from wind to seriously heavy rain to brutal sun. Luckily not lightning though. It definitely wasn’t easy but we managed to catch a few decent fish, but most importantly of all have a good time.

Don’t forget to check out our cool and new project Legendary Fishermen a social network for fishermen.

Fishing Fury Renovations And Additions

That’s right, we’re moving again! I’m sure some of you have noticed the recent instability in the site, we’ve even been discussing it in the forums. We’ll we’ve got our new hosting setup and we’ve already moved our sponsors program and galleries.

The move will happen sunday night/monday morning and I hope that it’s quick and painless. While you’re waiting we invite you to our newest project, it’s still beta so be gentle!

Legendary Fishermen is a community site focused on bringing people that love fishing together. Our aim is to create a community where people can share their love of fishing, meet fellow anglers around the world, and display the infinite spectrum of wonder the fishing world has to offer.

The site is running WordPress MU and Buddy Press, We’ve never run a site like this before so we thought, why not get release early and let the needs of community dictate the direction and features of the site. Ultimately you will be able to connect with other anglers around the world, read their blogs, write your own too of course, and more! Right now the blog creation is turned off until I can figure out some of the settings and themes, but your blog url would be something like myblogname.legendaryfishermen.com, that and 500MB of space for your photos and videos all for the price of.. FREE!

Have fun and I hope to see some new members and groups when I get back from Lake Scugog tomorrow afternoon. I hope everyone is having a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend.