Here is the Cornell link: http://static.birds.cornell.edu/hofi/recognizing.html
Chip Clouse Golden On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:20 AM Dick Filby <dickfi...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mary Kay > > So sorry to hear. Right now, the best action to avoid more infected birds: > > Clean all your feeders immediately with soap and water, and then rinse > with a mild bleach solution, and not put them back out for a week, in case > it, or other infected birds return and infect the feeders. > > See the Audubon advice here > https://www.audubon.org/news/3-ways-keep-your-feeder-disease-free-birds > > Cornell Lab of Ornithology tracks bird disease, so don't hesitate to > report to them. > > Good luck, and be sure that you stay safe in the pandemic too > > Best rgds > > DickFilby > Carbondale, CO > > > > > Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S® 6, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone > -------- Original message -------- > From: Mary Kay Waddington <waddingto...@gmail.com> > Date: 3/27/20 08:21 (GMT-07:00) > To: Colorado Birds <cobirds@googlegroups.com> > Subject: [cobirds] Blind Finch, Arapahoe > > Yesterday I noticed a female House Finch fluttering in a very strange > manner -- it was almost stationary in the air with wings going back and > forth for all the world like it was emulating a hummingbird. Then it would > move 6 inches in the air and continue its fluttering, move another 6 in. > Finally its wing brushed against a twig and the bird managed to make an > extremely awkward landing. That's when I noticed that one eye was almost > completely crusted over, and the other one was cloudy looking and very > red. I really think it was almost completely blind. It cocked its head in > all different directions -- listening to other birds? and finally made > another fluttering movement until it's wings hit a different twig -- > another awkward landing. This was only a few feet from my thistle feeder > and I think it used its ears to know there were other finches feeding > there. It finally fluttered towards the feeder, hit it, and miraculously > managed a landing on one of the perches. Fed for quite a long time before > being frightened off - did its fluttery flight and didn't brush up against > any other twigs so ended up landing on the ground (although "landing" is > perhaps not exactly the right word.) > > So then I started worrying that perhaps it had pox and was infecting my > feeder and other birds. Every time I saw it on a branch it was frequently > rubbing its eyes against the branch -- probably spreading whatever it had. > So should I catch it and do away with it? Grim thoughts during our own > human viral crisis! I'm sure I could have crept up on it and grabbed it. > > About an hour later the Magpies alerted me that I should be looking out > the window -- A Cooper's Hawk was eating a female House finch. Haven't > seen the blind bird since, so perhaps natural selection took its course. > > Mary Kay Waddington > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Colorado Birds" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAA-Db7fd3FcRPWFX3yHj9gJfPJRz9xtZpbsYkTJnWGSOKVEsiA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Fmsgid%2Fcobirds%2FCAA-Db7fd3FcRPWFX3yHj9gJfPJRz9xtZpbsYkTJnWGSOKVEsiA%2540mail.gmail.com%3Futm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dfooter&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cd71f57ce7ddc43f90e1b08d7d25a1b3e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637209156747624340&sdata=fwQbLuKfDNK5zCSfZLchR9YWTJ1O65f8WN5OrIHbD8Q%3D&reserved=0> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Colorado Birds" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/VI1PR10MB15989C24DAB8DBB91A4101CCB2CC0%40VI1PR10MB1598.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/VI1PR10MB15989C24DAB8DBB91A4101CCB2CC0%40VI1PR10MB1598.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAPHVJejDMBdN2OKYwDhpqhLihjB-gGKNL3KjwyStK5-VGjm0rQ%40mail.gmail.com.
