Is there any chance that a nearby neighbor has a rodent problem and put
out granulated mouse bait?

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On 2020-07-06 20:02, dgrainger at birdsbydave.com wrote:

> 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!

>>

>> --

>>

>> Lynn Wohlers

>>

>> Blogging at Bluebrightly [1]

>> Photography on Flickr [2]

>> And at Lynn Wohlers.com [3]

>>

>>

>>

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