Indiana Songbird Deaths

[ruffdog]

We do have a Hummer feeder but have noticed that they love the sap on the Spruce and Fir trees. Early morning they will collect the dew at the ends of the new growth.

 

[Blue Mule]

From our Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources:

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife provides update about bird illness investigation

fw.ky.gov

 

[kenmbz]

We have very few robins this year, normally we see a few dozen just in the back yard.

 

[Oaktree]

Read the packages. Don't you remember the dog food deaths from plastic and antifreeze added to ramp up the tested "protein" content? Now look at the bird seed products being sold at TSC, Costco and Rural King. "Packaged Locally from Various Worldwide Sources". Good enough evidence last year for me...

Dogfood is a manufactured product, who knows what's in it. Seeds are seeds.

LOL. If I had all the money back from buying birdseed, sunflowers, suet cakes, corn, peanuts, and then the sugar to make a gallon of nectar, almost every day in the summer,
Then the catfood, litter, vet bills, and other kitty items for the cats, I would have enough money to buy another tractor. Lol.

We don't get carried away, a 50 lb bag or two of sunflower seed per winter (feeders come down April 1st and don't go back up until snowfall...too many bears around here), local supermarket sells suet for 49¢/lb, that's about it.
Only pets are a couple of cats, and they're pretty low maintenance.

 

[ruffdog]

It doesn't look good and I'll contact the DNR if I find a dead bird. I wonder if this sickness will get passed to the animals that eat these sick birds? I sure hope someone figures this out ASAP too.

 

[ruffdog]

Dogfood is a manufactured product, who knows what's in it. Seeds are seeds.

We don't get carried away, a 50 lb bag or two of sunflower seed per winter (feeders come down April 1st and don't go back up until snowfall...too many bears around here), local supermarket sells suet for 49¢/lb, that's about it.
Only pets are a couple of cats, and they're pretty low maintenance.

Seeds could have been sprayed with a pesticide, anti fungal, or drying agent to help preserve it in storage.

 

[Diggin It]

I feed heavy-ish in winter. A couple of years back when we had a harsher winter and several more inches of snow than normal, I was feeding twice a day, once just after sunrise and again in late afternoon. I'd buy 80 pounds of seed or more and 20 suet cakes every month or so.

In summer I only feed a couple of times a month just so they remember where the feeder is.

 

[ruffdog]

The latest of all the diseases that it is NOT:

Cause of bird illness still a mystery, Lancaster County cases continue, experts say

 

[69 SS]

Same thing during early spring February, March here in SC. Pine Siskins migrating north. Found 2 dead in my yard. SCDNR said to take feeders in so I did. I would like to think I helped keep from spreading diseases. I feel bad for our little blue planet ,and all that resides on it, it is slowly getting in worse shape evey day and at a rapidly increasing rate.

 

[Citydude]

So you have no proof.

And you have no proof it's not.