dead birds on the m11

[nightowl57]

My husband, a lorry driver, was driving along the M11 yesterday and said he saw lots of dead birds on the Hard shoulder equally spaced, he said it looked as though they had been dumped off the back of a vehicle, although they also looked as they had been run over. It was near Stanstead Airport, I just wondered if any one had heard anything......

[Littlesparrow]

I've not seen anything on the news? there are a few things on the net about flocks of birds falling out of the sky dead in America, not recently though. I don't know if they ever got to the bottom of why it happened, some thought the flock had been sucked up into cold air and frozen, and some thought fire works had startled them.
Do you know what sort of birds the were?

[Dogghound]

Probably just pheasants and woodpigeons some stretches of motorway are full of them.

[FUDGEY]

As Dogghound says Pheasants are the most likely casualties. The poults will have all been released now and they hang about together at first in large numbers. Adults have not got much road sense and these have none.

[nightowl57]

Many thanks for the replies, my husband did say they may have been pheasants, but he said they seemed to be an equal distance apart as though they had been dumped there.

[Dawn10538]

My husband is also a lorry driver and is always on the M11 at Stansted will get him and the others to look out unless mr fox has taken them, I know it's not nice to see that sort of thing, on the road where I live someone had dumped a Cockrel in a black bin liner and someone had obviously been out shooting rabbits and chucked them out the window one by one, nasty.