Subject: [Tweeters] Two dead Chickadees
Date: Mon Jul 6 20:02:24 PDT 2020
From: dgrainger at birdsbydave.com - dgrainger at birdsbydave.com


Certainly hope this is not the same infection that hit the Pine Siskins
so hard last year! Anybody expert in that field out there with info?
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On 2020-07-06 15:44, Lynn Wohlers wrote:

> We just found a dead Chickadee under our feeders, the second one in

> about 7 days. I didn't see any injuries in either bird. I believe both

> were Black-capped. The first one we found was very disheveled, and I

> had noticed a disheveled, weak-looking Chickadee at the feeder the day

> before. That was the day we had pretty heavy rain all day (we're in

> Anacortes).

>

> It seems unusual for two birds to die in the same spot so close in

> time. We have Barred owls but they would have made off with a meal,

> and a cursory look showed no injuries.

>

> Does anyone have an idea why this would happen? A dirty feeder

> possibly? We do have a big Chickadee population (Black-capped &

> Chestnut-backed).

>

> Thanks!

>

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> Lynn Wohlers

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