tsar4 Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 https://www.audubon.org/news/scientists-still-searching-pathogen-behind-easts-songbird-epidemic Article is from earlier this month, they're now reporting this as far west as Colorado. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resurrected Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 This is interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discolé monade Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 will do this weekend. i do clean the bird baths all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resurrected Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Glad it's not affecting hummingbirds. Birds are all we have left down here in hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsar4 Posted April 23, 2022 Author Share Posted April 23, 2022 They're having us take them down again, due to the Avian Flu. There's hundreds of dead birds in and around a lake a few miles away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 There hasn't been any sort of request around here among the bird people but I emptied my feeder a couple of weeks ago [ before the last big blizzard ] when it was reported in ND. It's still hanging up though because it's under the balcony of the apartment above mine so often little birds will just perch on it as a place to rest when it's gross but not windy out. Thankfully I've trained most of them to react to a specific whistle call that I only use when I'm filling it so I don't worry too much that hungry birds will be constantly checking it. They only flock when I call. They think it'll have worked through by early summer when the weather is steady and warm. I look forward to filling the feeder again and seeing how many flood the area looking for seed-treats. That all said, anyone else have like a billion robins in their area right now? Usually the trees are bent full of starlings and maybe grackles, but holy crap the trees around here are full of robins. Absolute clouds of them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsar4 Posted April 23, 2022 Author Share Posted April 23, 2022 22 minutes ago, katt_goddess said: There hasn't been any sort of request around here among the bird people but I emptied my feeder a couple of weeks ago [ before the last big blizzard ] when it was reported in ND. It's still hanging up though because it's under the balcony of the apartment above mine so often little birds will just perch on it as a place to rest when it's gross but not windy out. Thankfully I've trained most of them to react to a specific whistle call that I only use when I'm filling it so I don't worry too much that hungry birds will be constantly checking it. They only flock when I call. They think it'll have worked through by early summer when the weather is steady and warm. I look forward to filling the feeder again and seeing how many flood the area looking for seed-treats. That all said, anyone else have like a billion robins in their area right now? Usually the trees are bent full of starlings and maybe grackles, but holy crap the trees around here are full of robins. Absolute clouds of them. No more than the usual quantity of robins here. Other than the birds that over-wintered (Mourning Doves, House Finch, Wrens, Junkos & Chickadees) here I heard a Blue Jay nearby. They never seemed to check out the feeders for some reason. Oh, I heard an Owl a few nights ago & we have a Hawk that patrols the area & has tried to get at the birds at the feeders occasionally. The Flicker & the Woodpeckers haven't been around the last couple years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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