Subject: Sick finch
Date: Nov 5 12:53:15 1998
From: Ned McGarry - nmcgarry at gte.net


I had a house finch at my tube feeder this morning with a *severely*
distended/swollen (or malformed) right eye. Are there any folks out there
that know if the disease that causes this (if it is a disease and not a
"birth defect") is contagious enough to be transmitted to other birds in
the confines of the tube feeder access points? The bird seems otherwise
healthy and typically aggressive at the feeder as the others in her flock.


Ned McGarry
Kirkland, WA
nmcgarry at gte.net