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:
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We just found a dead Chickadee under our feeders, the second one in
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about 7 days. I didn't see any injuries in either bird. I believe both
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were Black-capped. The first one we found was very disheveled, and I
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had noticed a disheveled, weak-looking Chickadee at the feeder the day
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before. That was the day we had pretty heavy rain all day (we're in
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Anacortes).
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It seems unusual for two birds to die in the same spot so close in
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time. We have Barred owls but they would have made off with a meal,
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and a cursory look showed no injuries.
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Does anyone have an idea why this would happen? A dirty feeder
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possibly? We do have a big Chickadee population (Black-capped &
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Chestnut-backed).
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Thanks!
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And at Lynn Wohlers.com [3]
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