MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Michigan officials say thousands of dead fish found in the Lake St. Clair area likely died because of the cold weather.  The state Department of Natural Resources and Environment says Friday that large numbers of gizzard shad probably died because of the lengthy, cold winter. State officials say they’ve collected samples and had them analyzed, and they don’t suspect a fish virus or bacterial disease is to blame.  Read more.

Turistas de Máncora informaron sobre la aparición de cientos de pequeños peces muertos en la playa. El dato fue confirmado por la directora regional de la Producción, Cecilia Vilela, quien indicó que se ha reportado este mismo hecho en toda la franja costera de Piura, desde Negritos hasta. Read more.

Mass fish death was recorded in the Iranian sector of the Caspian Sea,” Iranian Gulistan Province’s Nature Conservation Department Deputy Head Mohsen Jafarnejad said.  Mass death of fish in the Caspian Sea is recorded on the west coast of the Gulistan Province. A large number of dead mullet have washed ashore, Shomalnews.com reported.  Read more.

A farmer in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures has found about 80 dead pigeons on his farm 20 kilometres west of Quebec City.  Sylvain Turmel first noticed the dead birds in his field on Dec. 18.  “I found two dead birds in the morning, which is normal, birds sometimes die,” he said.  “But when I came back one hour later, another 25 had fallen,” said Turmel.  Read more.

There are reports of dozens of dead birds in the Boonie Doon area.  “I can’t believe there’s so many dead birds out here,” resident Peter Hoscin tells Global Edmonton. “I don’t know what’s going on. I’ve never seen anything like this.”  Read more.

Officials are trying to determine what killed more than 200 birds in the South Dakota city of Yankton.  The dead starlings were found in a downtown area where they had been congregating instead of migrating for the winter. Yankton Animal Control Officer Lisa Brasel tells the Press & Dakotan that a veterinarian didn’t immediately find anything wrong with them.  Read more.

200 dead cows in Wisconsin are not the only dead livestock being reported in the world today. Over the weekend a report of 7000 dead buffalo and cows from Vietnam is also making news. These two reports, coming on the heels of the dead birds and dead fish reports in recent weeks, seem to hype up this dead animal mystery.  Read more.

People on the north coast of Labrador say scores of dead seals have been washing ashore since early December. A conservation officer with the area’s Inuit government estimated late last week that hundreds of adult and young seals have died in the area between Hopedale and Makkovik this winter.  Read more.