Massive Bird Kill - Bandon, Oregon - Japan Tsunami Debris Washing Up - MY EYE WITNESS PHOTOS

you know, I really really really don't think we need to banter with these nutjob Aussie posters. It's NOT enhancing the site or even giving us fun fodder to play with. It's always just in-your-face annoying. If it weren't for a few threads, I just wouldn't come here. But they are even on those threads. I mean look at this, a quintessentially perfect GLP post, not controversial and something intereesting to all of us, and there's an Aussie: vomiting and crapping all over everything and screaming and crying like a baby. Why? Why do we have to endure this?

I'll tell you one thing, I AM judging Australia by what I see on here. I never never never want to meet anyone from there and I am hoping it sinks underwater.

OP showed photo's of one beach, you only have his say so on the other beaches. Knowing OP's past posting history I am inclined to be cautious in believing him.

That isn't very nice at all. Yes there are some dicks on here from Aus but there are also plenty of dicks from other countries. Judging them as a whole from a few is downright ignorant.

hmmm. You would probably say the same thing about me. So no need to take pics and post my story right?

No, not really, it's a pretty human reaction. One bad apple...

Wrong, I don't know your posting history.

Op has been here sometime, I know of 3/4 of his posting ID's, he is glued to doom like a whore to a $100.

well I just looked at his/her threads over the past few months and I thought they were awesome.

And anyone who's not glued to doom now isn't living in reality. While I can be naive about what people are posting, I have to say OP's post had all the earmarks of being 100% true. I'd like to see more of this thing on here. It reminds me of the oil spill, the locals weren't too public about what was happening because they didn't want to kill tourism. People don't always talk about what's happening in their own area for various reasons. Usually goes back to $$$.

This is so sad! I live in a Gulf Coast state so can relate to having ecology destroyed and by foreign interests no less.

How bad is this going to get before it starts to subside? And there is nothing to prevent something highly radioactive from eventually washing ashore.

We should have thought about that many decades ago before we started terrorizing the world.. You reap what you sow..

Most disturbing about this post is OP's gushing over petting zoos and fascination with all of the "muscles" on the beach.

There seems to be a lot known by the tour guide that led a short cruise to an island in the Puget Sound. He said there are a couple pods of Orcas, killer whales, that live in the Puget Sound. Apparently, according to testing done by the fisheries up there, those Orcas are the most toxic animals on earth. Their number one food source is the salmon that run through the sound and the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Oregon. The Orcas live in the Sound but have not been seen this year. This may be due to something in the environment or it could be that the salmon are massing somewhere else this year and therefore they're feeding somewhere else. No matter what, the seas are changing...and it doesn't appear to be for the better.

This is so sad! I live in a Gulf Coast state so can relate to having ecology destroyed and by foreign interests no less.

How bad is this going to get before it starts to subside? And there is nothing to prevent something highly radioactive from eventually washing ashore.

That's all you can say isn't it?
Its all you can think of isn't it?
With your sheep like intellect a flag on the internet is all that wanders in to your pea fucking brain to say isn't it?

I am in Bandon at this moment and have to differ with the sensationalist post. The reason for some dead birds is a large algae bloom most likely due to global warming.
All shops and businesses are open and there is very little debris on the beach. I have pasted the news article on the algae bloom.



Foam from ocean algae bloom killing thousands of birds




Oregon Coast Notes - News




Just so you know what it is....A slimy foam churning up from the ocean has killed thousands seabirds and washed many others ashore, stripped of their waterproofing and struggling for life.

The birds have been clobbered by an unusual algae bloom stretching from the northern Oregon coast to the tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.

"This is huge," said Julia Parrish, a marine biologist and professor at the University of Washington who leads a seabird monitoring group. "It's the largest mortality event of its kind on the West Coast that we know of."

The culprit is a single-cell algae or phytoplankton called Akashiwo sanguinea. Though the algae has multiplied off the coast of California before, killing hundreds of seabirds, the phenomenon has not been seen in Oregon and Washington and has never occurred on the West Coast to this extent, Parrish said.

"We're getting counts of up to a million cells per liter of water," she said. "Think about that. That's pretty dense."



Read more about Foam from ocean algae bloom killing thousands of birds by ouroregoncoast.com

I am in Bandon at this moment and have to differ with the sensationalist post. The reason for some dead birds is a large algae bloom most likely due to global warming.
All shops and businesses are open and there is very little debris on the beach. I have pasted the news article on the algae bloom.



Foam from ocean algae bloom killing thousands of birds




Oregon Coast Notes - News




Just so you know what it is....A slimy foam churning up from the ocean has killed thousands seabirds and washed many others ashore, stripped of their waterproofing and struggling for life.

The birds have been clobbered by an unusual algae bloom stretching from the northern Oregon coast to the tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.

"This is huge," said Julia Parrish, a marine biologist and professor at the University of Washington who leads a seabird monitoring group. "It's the largest mortality event of its kind on the West Coast that we know of."

The culprit is a single-cell algae or phytoplankton called Akashiwo sanguinea. Though the algae has multiplied off the coast of California before, killing hundreds of seabirds, the phenomenon has not been seen in Oregon and Washington and has never occurred on the West Coast to this extent, Parrish said.

"We're getting counts of up to a million cells per liter of water," she said. "Think about that. That's pretty dense."



Read more about Foam from ocean algae bloom killing thousands of birds by ouroregoncoast.com