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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > Date: 3/27/20 08:21 (GMT-07:00) > To: Colorado Birds <[email protected]> > 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 [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAPHVJejDMBdN2OKYwDhpqhLihjB-gGKNL3KjwyStK5-VGjm0rQ%40mail.gmail.com.
