Subject: [Tweeters] Sick Pine Siskin (NE Portland) & Ring-necked Ducks
Date: Dec 2 00:16:12 2010
From: Mary Reese - uuspirit at yahoo.com


This past week I've?been seeing a weak, puffed up PINE SISKIN sitting on & near
my feeder (NE Portland).? It seems listless and I can walk right up to it.? I
had the same situation with one Pine Siskin about four years ago.? So far, both
then and now, whatever ails?them does not seem to be spreading to any other
birds.

Last Saturday, November 27, we went to Ridgefield NWR (River S Unit) at dawn.?
At the beginning of the loop drive, just past the left turn, in the canal on the
right,?we saw these two RING-NECKED DUCKS all alone.? Either they're both sick
or they have some sort of molt-from-hell going on.??

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marymargaretreese/5222751939/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marymargaretreese/5222751765/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marymargaretreese/5222751611/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marymargaretreese/5223349602/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marymargaretreese/5222752113/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marymargaretreese/5222752309/

Mary Reese & Jim Allen
Portland / Fairview, OR