MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

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.

The 200 dead cattle were discovered on a farm field on 4th Street in Amherst. Sunday, the bodies were taken out in semi-loads to be disposed of.  The farm’s veterinarian says preliminary results show the animals died of acute interstitial pneumonia, also known as AIP. Samples from the dead animals were sent to Madison for testing.  Read more.

In the port area of Andenes in Norway, normally rich with birds, Eider ducks are dying like flies.  Read more.

Add Middle Tennessee to the list of places where flocks of birds have shown up dead. Earlier in the week, birds were found dead in Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky and Texas. Now, more that 100 dead birds were recently found in Wilson County, causing the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to investigate.  Read more.

Authorities in Haiti are trying to determine the cause of a fish kill in a lake that borders the Dominican Republic and, in the meantime, have banned consumption of fish from those waters.  Scores of fish have been found dead in Lake Azuei, specifically in areas of Fond Parisien and Malpasse, since Christmas Eve.  Read more.

Dozens of dead birds are discovered near Sullivan, Missouri about an hour southwest of St. Louis. People in and around Sullivan are calling the whole thing a little weird. The scene is just east of Sullivan along the I-44 south service road at Winsel Creek. The Missouri Department of Conservation is looking into the situation.  See more here.

Hundreds of fish have been found dead in a Manchester pond in the latest bizarre mass animal deaths. Experts say the freezing weather caused the deaths.  Read more.

Up to 300 dead birds have been found on the side of an Alabama highway in the latest mass animal death to be reported. The bodies of the birds, identified as grackles, were found strewn along the I-65 highway.  Grackles have also been found dead in their hundreds recently in Arkansas, Louisiana and Kentucky.  Read more.

371 dead birds fell from the sky over Los Angeles, California, and hit the pavement at Sunset and Cahuenga. In the great shadow of the CNN building laid scattered hundreds of pigeons, most of them dead. This is another incident of dead birds falling from the sky, as has been seen in California, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Sweden, Italy, and other places around the world.  Read more.

A bizarre scene is evolving on the Chicago lakefront, with Canada geese and mallard ducks gulping down dead or dying gizzard shad.  A major die-off of what appears to be the 2010 class is happening in Chicago harbors. Thousands, perhaps far more than that, of dead gizzard shad in the 3- to 5-inch range are frozen in the ice of Chicago harbors or floating around in open patches of water.  Read more.