January 10, 2011--Weird stuff...

Okay, so today in my job, I had to read a bunch more reports on the dead birds in Arkansas and Louisiana, then the dead ones in Sweden, only to discover there are now 8,000 more in Italy. These were doves, with strange blue marks on their bills, like they'd been deprived on oxygen. And there were unconfirmed reports of dead birds in Manitoba, too but I am still waiting for a reliable news source to run that story before I fully believe it.
Then I went on to see reports on the dead fish in Brazil, hundreds of tons of them washing up on shore, followed by two million dead fish in Chesapeake Bay, and the red snapper in New Zealand, all after the finding of 100,000 dead fish in Arkansas.
Now they say bats are being affected, too...and about 80 were found in Arizona, before any of the birds died.
Theories abound out there with lightning strikes, weather, fireworks, all being cited as possible causes. There's also the idea that something like HAARP is behind it all. HAARP or High Frequency Active Aurorol Research Program for those unaware, is a US government project, located up in Alaska and according to their website, this is what they do up there "
The HAARP program is committed to developing a world class ionospheric research facility consisting of:

• The Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high power transmitter facility operating in the High Frequency (HF) range. The IRI will be used to temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere for scientific study.
• A sophisticated suite of scientific (or diagnostic) instruments that will be used to observe the physical processes that occur in the excited region. "

So, they excite the ionosphere and then read the results, in order to increase communication capabilities for us all. Now, couldn't something like this mess with the navigational systems in birds, causing them to fly into power lines or even towards the ground?
Another theory is that the magnetic poles are shifting, more so than normal, causing a disruption in the flight behaviors of the birds.
Frankly, either or both of these latter suggestions sound more plausible to me than lightning strikes or fireworks causing the death of some many species withing a week's time.
It's definitely weird and something people should keep investigating, but unfortunately, it seems the mainstream media people have moved on to other topics.
Weird stuff... (by the way, if the rule is i before e except after c, then how come we spell  the word "weird'?