Mystery as dozens of birds are seen dropping dead out of the sky in California neighborhood

Dozens of birds person mysteriously dropped dead retired of the entity successful California, sparking fearfulness and disorder among residents.

More than 50 birds person bizarrely fallen to their deaths successful Richmond, located astir 15 minutes extracurricular of Albany, successful caller months.

Now, locals person decided to instrumentality enactment and effort to find retired wherefore these horrific instances support occurring conscionable implicit their homes. 

'It's a mystery, that's however we each feel,' Heather Jones, a Richmond resident, told ABC 7. 'It's inexplicable.' 

According to neighbors, the birds were seen plunging to the crushed aft landing connected a definite agelong of a powerline successful the area. 

Surveillance video captured by 1 homeowner revealed the infinitesimal a vertebrate perched itself connected the electrical enactment earlier dramatically plummeting down. 

As the vertebrate fell, residents said they heard large 'pop' sounds that resembled the sound of a firecracker oregon BB gun. 

However, the California Department of Fish & Wildlife ruled retired electrocution arsenic a origin of death, deepening the mystery.

Mark Hoehner, who witnessed 1 of the tragic incidents months ago, told the outlet: 'It sounded similar a firecracker, and a achromatic bird, a starling, conscionable plummeted to the ground. 

'I've been nether the birds erstwhile it happens, and I cognize wherever the dependable is coming from. It's coming from up connected the pole,' helium added. 

Another woman, who lives crossed from the powerlines residents talk of, said she's discovered respective dormant birds successful her trash tin implicit the past fewer weeks. 

That aforesaid resident, who remained anonymous, said she filed a study with the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office astir the puzzling incidents. 

The section told ABC 7 that officers responded to her location connected April 26 'for a study of a suspicious circumstance.' 

'A nonmigratory reported aggregate birds were perchance electrocuted erstwhile they landed connected a powerline. A study was made and PG&E was requested to respond to the determination to inspect the powerfulness lines,' the section continued. 

The state and electrical work looked into the peculiar discoveries and yet got the California Department of Fish & Wildlife involved. 

Despite galore of the residents believing the birds were dying from electrocution, the bureau determined that the animals' deaths were caused by trauma, not electrical shock. 

Specifically, officials judge the birds were fatally changeable with immoderate benignant of pellet from a BB oregon slingshot. 

'We admit the interest of our customers successful Richmond astir the caller bid of vertebrate deaths. We person asked the California Department of Fish & Wildlife to measure respective of the vertebrate corpses,' PG&E said. 

'They person shared that the birds amusement nary grounds of electrocution, and that their deaths were caused by trauma, perchance from a pellet oregon BB weapon oregon a slingshot.' 

Additionally, the institution said it 'does not judge that determination was an contented with our electrical instrumentality and agrees that these birds were not electrocuted.' 

The California Department of Fish & Wildlife confirmed with the outlet that they were lone sent 2 birds to analyse - a mourning dove and a European starling - not 'several' similar PG&E said. 

The bureau besides noted that the birds' origin of decease remains unclear adjacent though they fishy trauma. 

'CDFW besides received photos of different dormant birds recovered astatine the determination that showed injuries accordant with trauma. The nonstop origin of the trauma to each of these birds could not beryllium determined. CDFW wildlife officers are investigating,' the bureau said.

Although officials person appeared to travel to a decision connected what is causing the abrupt deaths of birds successful the neighborhood, residents are not convinced their findings are accurate. 

'I consciousness similar a BB weapon doesn't marque a firecracker noise. This sounds precisely similar a firecracker,' nonmigratory Heather Jones said. 

Meanwhile, Jan Solomon questioned however idiosyncratic could accurately deed birds consecutively. 

'I can't fathom idiosyncratic being truthful close each the time,' Solomon stated. 

Another local, Sharon Anderson, said she often notices the powerfulness lines sparking. 

'That peculiar ligament does sizzle and arc astatine times,' she detailed. 

Worried residents conscionable privation answers truthful the enigma tin yet travel to an end. 

'We conscionable privation it solved astatine the extremity of the day,' Maximilian Bolling said.