A couple of new observations in Japan. 1) There was a near complete absence of the dusky thrush in our area until the end of February, when a flockof about 20 arrived and settled into a grove in the "unexposed" (no direct 5G radiation) area. This is a migratory species that used to be as familiar and ubiquitous as crows in Japan in winter. They scavenged the off-season paddies for invertebrates and were constantly present until their migration north in late April. It would appear to me that the flock that arrived had been driven out from somewhere else not far away. If soil organisms are going missing, as Diana says, that might account for this. The flock that arrived set about scavenging as normal, including in exposed areas, but there seemed to be very few in the exposed area. I have attempted to quantify that. I made observations 1-3 times a day over ten days in an area, which at ground level I estimate at 2/3 unexposed (5/3 exposed at road level). I counted birds engaged in foraging only, because when disturbed they tend to fly up to exposed perches.I counted 58 unexposed and 9 exposed to one degree or another. There was only one time when I saw a significant number (3) in an exposed location--on the road by puddles during a rainstorm. Only three were unambiguously foraging in an exposed area. One I counted on my second pass (after it had been disturbed), and a couple were exposed only to the supermarket small cell, which I consider an unlikely source of major exposure, but not the fire station small cell (targetting a busy convenience store). I am not a statistician, but I think 3 unambiguous cases out of about 60 observations when roughly 20 would be expected would suggest a high degree of significance. I noticed a tendency on some days, as well, for the birds to scavenge near the edge of the exposed area. This suggests they may be having difficulty finding enough to eat in the unexposed area on some days and are attempting to scavenge the exposed areas, but do not persist, and whether this is due to lack of soil invertebrates or to irritation from the transmissions I cannot say. 2) One of our cats, that we have had for more than four years began suffering health issues during the past nine months. These continued to worsen until I suggested to my husband that we not take her on walks into the heavily exposed area near the community center, where she would accompany us each day in the early afternoon. After we switched to a mostly unexposed area at a greater distance from the small cells, her eye discharge cleared up, her grooming improved, her energy level rose and her bladder stones went away. I had noticed that near the community center, she would walk down in the culvert and she seemed to have the most trouble with bladder stones specifically during those walks. This suggests calcium metabolish issues, but I'd have to confirm the type of stones with the vet.I rarely see stray cats in the directly exposed fields. Ours follow us out there because we are going there.
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Date: 2025-03-21 10:16 pm (UTC)1) There was a near complete absence of the dusky thrush in our area until the end of February, when a flockof about 20 arrived and settled into a grove in the "unexposed" (no direct 5G radiation) area. This is a migratory species that used to be as familiar and ubiquitous as crows in Japan in winter. They scavenged the off-season paddies for invertebrates and were constantly present until their migration north in late April. It would appear to me that the flock that arrived had been driven out from somewhere else not far away. If soil organisms are going missing, as Diana says, that might account for this. The flock that arrived set about scavenging as normal, including in exposed areas, but there seemed to be very few in the exposed area. I have attempted to quantify that. I made observations 1-3 times a day over ten days in an area, which at ground level I estimate at 2/3 unexposed (5/3 exposed at road level).
I counted birds engaged in foraging only, because when disturbed they tend to fly up to exposed perches.I counted 58 unexposed and 9 exposed to one degree or another. There was only one time when I saw a significant number (3) in an exposed location--on the road by puddles during a rainstorm. Only three were unambiguously foraging in an exposed area. One I counted on my second pass (after it had been disturbed), and a couple were exposed only to the supermarket small cell, which I consider an unlikely source of major exposure, but not the fire station small cell (targetting a busy convenience store). I am not a statistician, but I think 3 unambiguous cases out of about 60 observations when roughly 20 would be expected would suggest a high degree of significance.
I noticed a tendency on some days, as well, for the birds to scavenge near the edge of the exposed area. This suggests they may be having difficulty finding enough to eat in the unexposed area on some days and are attempting to scavenge the exposed areas, but do not persist, and whether this is due to lack of soil invertebrates or to irritation from the transmissions I cannot say.
2) One of our cats, that we have had for more than four years began suffering health issues during the past nine months. These continued to worsen until I suggested to my husband that we not take her on walks into the heavily exposed area near the community center, where she would accompany us each day in the early afternoon. After we switched to a mostly unexposed area at a greater distance from the small cells, her eye discharge cleared up, her grooming improved, her energy level rose and her bladder stones went away. I had noticed that near the community center, she would walk down in the culvert and she seemed to have the most trouble with bladder stones specifically during those walks. This suggests calcium metabolish issues, but I'd have to confirm the type of stones with the vet.I rarely see stray cats in the directly exposed fields. Ours follow us out there because we are going there.