Birds behaving strangely

Storm's coming. 14" in the VA mountains here.

Come now op
Birds started behaving strangely when they started dropping dead from the sky, and that was 3 years ago. They have been doing it since.

The poor birds don't know what to think of our strange weather this winter. Right now ours are happy as can be since it's over freezing and our snow is melting rapidly. They think spring is coming. Considering it's supposed to get to sixty by the weekend, maybe we are headed towards spring. Wishful thinking, I know. Kansas here.

I saw a duck drop dead right out of the sky yesterday near Chicago and about 30 minutes before that I saw a dead bird on the ice so large it had to have been an eagle. And at the same time I saw a huge white snow owl flying across the ice. This was middle of the afternoon.

I am a tugboat captain and I was cutting across frozen Lake Michigan from south chicago to milwaukee. I also saw about ten other dead ducks. But the one that just fell sort of disturbed me. I've been doing this for 15 years and have never seen anything like it.