By now you all know there is a problem with the pipe in the well...and by now you've probably heard all the stories of people who have been sickened from the toxins....the claim that all the water is fresh and clean and the food ready to eat...but those who are realists understand that this has not gone away, it won't go away for years and sooner or later, all the people that were covering up for BP or the government, will begin to speak. This example of the dead birds is just one of many rising up and being heard........sammieswife
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Dead Birds Found on Modoto Island off Louisiana coast, CNN iReport, August 26, 2010:
On the morning of August 25th, I chartered a boat to a little island south of Lake Felicity off the Louisiana coast to check out the reports of thousands of dead birds I had been hearing about from other birders.
I also wanted to confirm my suspicions from finding dead birds on the roadside…
A crab fisherman, Mr. Verdin, agreed to take me to “THAT” Island….The one I feared to see…But, knew I had to. …
Mr. Verdin found a spot to pull the boat close to the marsh grasses…
I walked not two feet and there they were…strewn around like popcorn all over the place…laughing gulls. I guess I kinda of expressed my sentiments loudly cause Mr. Verdin was at my side in no time flat to see what I saw. He was also in complete awe. We walked the island together, mostly in silence, lost in our own thoughts and fears and sadness.
Every 10-20 feet were more gulls under a bush or laying flat on the small shells or coffee grind colored soil. Some were fully intact and others were not. Most were decomposing rapidly… some were recent and still looked fat and pretty except for their eyes of course.
In a ten foot circumference, I counted seventeen gulls. Walking another ten-twenty feet were another 17-20 gulls.
Then I spotted her…a mother gull with an egg fully intact… But it was never to be…she died before the egg even had a chance to hatch. …
In all we covered about 100 feet to the north, 30-40 feet east, and 100 feet south in a different area. I estimate we saw about 200-300 laughing gulls – all dead.